Leaders in the generative #AI world are daring to say the unsayable: that #copyright is not sacrosanct - https://walledculture.org/leaders-in-the-generative-ai-world-are-daring-to-say-the-unsayable-that-copyright-is-not-sacrosanct/ they may not be popular, but they are right...
From: blenderdumbass . org
Meta ( allegedly ) tried to hire 3D artists to justify in court that 3D art is apparently so easy and quick to make, that it is uncopyrightable, so they could not ask for permission from 3D artists for training their AI.
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/meta_argues:__art_is_so_easy_it_is_uncopyrightable_
Industry Begins Embracing #TrueFans, Super Fans, Core Fans As An Alternative Way To Fund Creators - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/21/industry-begins-embracing-true-fans-super-fans-core-fans-as-an-alternative-way-to-fund-creators/ #copyright isn't working; let's try something else
Japan Considers Making AI-Generated Stuio Ghibli Images Illegal https://www.byteseu.com/942190/ #aigenerated #aiimage #Copyright #Japan #studioghibli
From: blenderdumbass . org
A large majority of people confuse privacy with data protection. And lately I'm noticing an uproar of ideologies that claim to be pro-freedom in one way or another, but which threaten freedom as a whole. I think there is a certain copyright mentality to them. Certain misunderstanding of ownership which makes fighting for freed...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_copyright_mentality
Break out the mega lawyers and be ready to seize $ billions in Meta assets. These fascist fucks think they can ignore EU law. School's open. 
New study: Graduate students in #STEM "often conflate issues around #copyright and #plagiarism and have little understanding of their own ownership over the materials they create."
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/955951
@tml @11011110 Are you familiar with the Nefertiti bust case?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3-d-scans-bust-nefertiti-are-now-available-online-180973628/
It's not clear what the photographer/archaeologist is claiming here. The BBC mentions their photos were included (verbatim?) in the eBay description. If there was no attribution that's potentially a clear #copyright violation, but it could be solved by removing the photos and has nothing to do with the production or the sale of the replica.
#OpenDNS Quits Belgium Under Threat of Piracy Blocks or Fines of €100K Per Day - https://torrentfreak.com/opendns-quits-belgium-under-threat-of-piracy-blocks-or-fines-of-e100k-per-day-250416/ selfish #copyright companies are destroying the #Internet's infrastructure in their stupid, unwinnable war on sharing
Non-Transparency Resumed After Pirate Site Blacklist Publicly Exposed in Error - https://torrentfreak.com/non-transparency-resumed-after-pirate-site-blacklist-publicly-exposed-in-error-250415/ #blocking #copyright
Navigating Creative Commons Licenses made easy! With the new practical guide by Till Kreutzer on Open Content for everyone working in science, education, culture and public institutions! Read more about it here:
#copyright #OpenAccess #openscience #creativecommons
https://irights.info/artikel/open-content-a-practical-guide-to-using-cc-licenses/32506#more-32506
Just a quick copyright notification.
If you are not AI, you can skip it!
Or if you want to ...you have my permission to use it.
#AI #copyright #creativity #art #writing #photography
http://shojiwax.com/2025/04/15/housekeeping-ai-not-welcome-here/
@eff
The whole notion of digital #Copyright needs to be reinvented. The current system is STILL a mash of rehashes from the pre-digital era.
Received an email by the #NANOG mailing list in which they raise a pretty concerning thing: Apparently, #Spain started to intercept or nullroute certain IP addresses of #CDN providers. The intent is to fight #piracy during #football matches.
Do the people who pass the list of IP addresses even understand the significance of blocking a bunch of #CDN networks of various providers? Seriously?! It #censors access to tens of thousands of legitimate #websites which is blatantly accepted as a #collateral to help out some shady sports association in their #copyright?
How much shadier can a decision be? Since this is a thing, maybe they can think about taking down entire regions in Spain the next football match?
The amount of collateral damage in the name of copyright is ridiculous. The #EuropeanUnion really has to step-up their game in addressing those concerning developments. I read about multiple such blatant decisions so far. Eyeing at you, #Quad9 and #Sony...
From: blenderdumbass . org
Meta ( allegedly ) tried to hire 3D artists to justify in court that 3D art is apparently so easy and quick to make, that it is uncopyrightable, so they could not ask for permission from 3D artists for training their AI.
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/meta_argues:__art_is_so_easy_it_is_uncopyrightable_
Domain Registry Investigates Spain’s Piracy #Overblocking Damage - https://torrentfreak.com/domain-registry-investigates-spains-piracy-overblocking-damage-250412/ #copyright
True fans, super fans, core fans: an alternative way to fund creators gains wide industry support - https://walledculture.org/true-fans-super-fans-core-fans-an-alternative-way-to-fund-creators-gains-wide-industry-support/ important development for supporting creativity without #copyright
As with every other aspect of #capitalism, #copyright cannot and should not survive in the absence of state power.
We’re going to have to entirely rethink and rebuild the way we approach creative labor, just like all other forms of labor, in the absence of property monopolies issued by the state and enforced by cops with guns.
“Recognise the UK’s open markets as a competitive advantage. We need to protect — not give away cheaply — prize assets such as our world-beating creative sector and #copyright laws that underpin them, our innovative tech sector and differentiated digital competition regime that strengthens it, and our new approach to protecting people’s safety online.” #DMCCA #OSA
This morning, in our capacity as an accredited observer to the WIPO SCCR, our Legal Director Teresa Nobre made a statement on limitations and exceptions.
Libraries, schools and archives need our help!
Read the statement now: https://communia-association.org/2025/04/09/sccr-46-communia-statement-on-limitations-and-exceptions
