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We are in the midst of a substantial technological revolution embodied by artificial intelligence, and whilst the technology is frequently overhyped, there is little doubt that it will continue to …
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On the 20th of October 2024, this blog turned 20 years old. I’ve been both dreading and looking forward to this milestone. On the one hand, this is probably one of the longest single projects…
on Oct 27
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LAION wins copyright infringement lawsuit in German court
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Copyright AI nerds have been eagerly awaiting a decision in the German case of Kneschke v LAION (previous blog post about the case here), and yesterday we got a ruling (text of the decision in Germ…
on Sep 29
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A short history of the Copyright Wars
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In a previous post we provided the background of what some call the Copyright Wars, delineating the sides and the parties. While legal conflicts about copyright have been raging since its inception…
on Sep 13
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A short guide to the Copyright Wars
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My social timeline has been abuzz with the latest copyright decision regarding the Internet Archive, which lost its appeal in the copyright lawsuit from Hachette. In the words of a colleague, this …
on Sep 7
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The problem with academic publishing
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My social media timeline has started filling up with angry reactions to the news that several academic publishers have been licensing academic works to AI companies for training purposes without ha…
on Jul 25
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Photographer sues LAION for copyright infringement
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A fascinating case that could test the limits of several exceptions under EU copyright law is developing right now in Germany. Photographer Robert Kneschke used the website “Have I Been Train…
on Jul 13
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The end of the online mob and the end of shared reality
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I have to admit that I have always been a realist, yet, when it comes to technology, I tend to side with the enthusiastic optimists. For many years, I shared the illusion (and perhaps common delusi…
on Apr 7
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Forgotten Dystopias: The Godlike AI That Time Forgot
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If I were to ask you about a film depiction of artificial intelligence, there are quite a few candidates that would pop into one’s head. My mind tends to immediately jump to some classics, su…
on Mar 30
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The European Parliament has approved the AI Act (voted version here), setting in motion its publication in the official journal in the next few months (given further edits). While full implementati…
on Mar 15
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The AI copyright infringement cases are increasing rapidly, not only in the US but also in the UK and China. The number of cases is so high that it’s impossible to keep track of all of them, …
on Mar 9
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Do you own your voice? The challenges of voice cloning
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A couple of weeks ago I was discussing in class how some comedians cloned George Carlin’s voice, and the subsequent lawsuit by his estate. I won’t go into any details, Aaron Moss has wr…
on Mar 1
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Barcelona court rules in favour of defendant in NFT metaverse copyright case
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A Commercial Court in Barcelona has made a ruling in a novel copyright dispute between fashion shop Mango and the Spanish collective society for artists VEGAP (text of the decision in Spanish here)…
on Feb 4
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Palworld, Pokémon, and copyright infringement
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A game called Palworld is taking the world by storm. This title has garnered 8 million downloads on Steam in less than 6 days, it also has become the second game in Steam history to hit over 2 mill…
on Jan 28
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Chinese court declares that AI-generated image has copyright
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The copyright law world has been abuzz last week with news that a court in the People’s Republic of China decided that a work generated with Stable Diffusion had copyright, and therefore the …
on Jan 22
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The New York Times lawsuit: the case and its wider implications
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The New York Times has joined the AI Wars by suing OpenAI and Microsoft (complaint here). The case was filed while I was on my yearly holiday, so I am late to the party. Quite a lot has already bee…
on Jan 5
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High Court rules that Getty v Stability AI case can proceed
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While most of the attention regarding artificial intelligence and copyright has been centred in the United States, it’s useful to remember that one of the main pieces of litigation is taking …
on Dec 9
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Copyright lawsuit threatens reggaeton genre
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There’s a fascinating case developing in the US which could have a lasting effect in the reggaetón music genre.In 1989, Cleveland “Clevie” Browne and Wycliffe “Steely” Johnson released “…
on Dec 7
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Spotify, surveillance, and the price of music
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It’s that time of the year again, it’s Spotify Wrapped Season. Mine was very unsurprising, I listen to a lot of Depeche Mode, The Cure, and Soda Stereo, who knew? Social media was fille…
on Dec 3
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Creative Commons and AI training
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While we’re in the middle of a Golden Age for the discussion of copyright and artificial intelligence, one topic that may not have received as much attention as it warrants is the interaction…
on Nov 20, 2023
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Large language models and copyright, what next?
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A few weeks ago, The Atlantic published an article titled “These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech”. This article discussed a dataset used to train some…
on Oct 24, 2023
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Asking whether AI outputs are art is asking the wrong question
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Over the past year, a heated debate has surfaced regarding the use of generative AI, specifically concerning whether AI-generated images should be categorised as art. This discourse has grown quite…
on Oct 11, 2023
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At the start of the year, I wrote a blog post, committing me to remain on Twitter. This decision stemmed from an exodus of users following Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform, where, within weeks,…
on Oct 7, 2023