Collaborate Disseminate
In the 2000s, the DVD industry was concerned about piracy, in particular the threat to their business model presented by counterfeit DVDs and downloadable movies. Their response was a campaign …read more Continue reading You Wouldn’t Steal a Font…
Three policy experts explain why they think anything less than a complete text and data mining exemption in UK copyright law will result in ineffective AI models and hamper innovation in the country. Continue reading UK AI Copyright Rules May Backfire, Causing Biased Models & Low Creator Returns
The government’s proposal suggested a system that permits AI developers to use creators’ online content to train their models unless rights holders explicitly choose to opt out. Continue reading OpenAI and Google Reject UK Government’s AI Copyright Proposal
A new phishing campaign is targeting businesses with fake Facebook copyright notices. Learn how to spot the signs and keep your Facebook account secure. Continue reading Scammers Use Fake Facebook Copyright Notices to Hijack Accounts
We were recently notified by a reader that [Tom Evans] had filed a copyright claim against [Mark]’s repair video on his Mend it Mark YouTube channel, taking down said repair video …read more Continue reading The £25,000 Tom Evans Pre-Amp Repair and a Copyright Strike
A big problem with text-to-image generators is their ability to replicate the original works used to train them, thereby infringing an artist’s copyright. Under US law, if you create an original work and ‘fix’ it in a tangible form, you own its copyrig… Continue reading Sneaky AI model deliberately corrupts training images to sidestep copyright
Lots of complicated details here: too many for me to summarize well. It involves an obscure Section 230 provision—and an even more obscure typo. Read this.
Continue reading New Lawsuit Attempting to Make Adversarial Interoperability Legal
The end of the year brings with it festive cheer, and a look forward into the new year to come. For those with an interest in intellectual property and the …read more Continue reading Mickey Shall Be Free!
Last week, we wrote about the Leica M11-P, the world’s first camera with Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) credentials baked into every shot. Essentially, each file is signed with Leica’s …read more Continue reading Falsified Photos: Fooling Adobe’s Cryptographically-Signed Metadata
Last month, Leica released a new camera rocking hardware and software designed to help with image authentication from the moment the shutter button is pressed. Now Sony has announced the completion of a month-long field test that will see similar tech … Continue reading Sony completes field test for in-camera image authentication tech