Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Technology in the Arts recently released an excellent report on copyright law. The report is intended primarily for arts and performance organizations, but it has a lot of material that's useful to anyone who works with online media, including great summaries of what is and isn't covered under public domain and fair use.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Now the dueling projects are selling their apes while dodging bans from other marketplaces, becoming the latest example of how the NFT world handles copied art. It’s common for NFT lineups to copy each other’s art styles or use similar names. Like other avatars, though, anybody can technically copy or modify the associated ape picture.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Technology in the Arts has just released a well-researched and well-written review of the legal issues surrounding the use of video footage, Social Media, Video Footage, and the Law: What performing arts managers need to know. It’s a timely publication, too: Arts marketers work with rapidly changing technologies on a daily basis.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Direct competitors include Hotpot and Pixela.ai, which use similar algorithms to create custom backgrounds, sprites and other art content. existing art assets). Y Combinator-backed Poly uses AI to generate art assets by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch. The jury’s out on that. In an unrelated case, the U.S.

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The Verge

JANUARY 1, 2022

Cover art for A. The works are now “free for all to copy, share, and build upon,” according to Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain , which tracks which copyrighted materials will become public each year. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh. The advent of sound recording technology all the way through to early jazz and blues”.

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The Verge

APRIL 29, 2021

And as is the case with many NFT sales, the Roths also retain the copyright to the image and will make 10 percent off any future sales of the NFT. Roth tells The New York Times that she’ll use the money to pay off her student loans and to donate to charity.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Excerpted from Radical Listening: The Art of True Connection by Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener & Dr. Christian vanNieuwerburgh. Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers Copyright 2025, All Rights Reserved. Interjections are used to build energy, strengthen connections, and show interest.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Projekt Melody briefly disappeared from Twitch due to a copyright dispute over her body Projekt Melody swears her body belongs to her — the purple hair, the cat-eared bow, and all the barely there clothing that strategically covers her up. and “Is Hentai Art?” Illustration by William Joel / The Verge. Melody was banned from Twitch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

It is important to respect copyright laws. Microsoft Office Clip Art Collection – This collection includes a combination of photos and illustrations and if you ever used the clip art option in PowerPoint, these will look familiar. Here’s a round up of resources and advice.

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See3

JANUARY 25, 2007

Cindy is having an art show, and if you are in New York, you should take a look. Here are the details : art… Artist Cindy Workman has a new show called “Les Demoiselles&# that features arresting, composite images of women fashioned from disparate sources including magazines, online images, even sewing pattern envelopes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2022

When people think of NFTs, the first use case most of them likely think of is visual art. From Beeple’s $69 million sale of a digital collage at Christie’s to the Bored Apes Yacht Club collection, visual art has seemed to be most prominent use case for NFTs due to close similarities with traditional fine art investing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Their areas of expertise touch on generative AI, but also copyright issues as they concern AI, like whether training AI systems on copyrighted material might be considered fair use. As the tech enters the mainstream, each new day brings a new lawsuit — which the experts on the AI Stage will break down in detail.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

.” Jasper’s other differentiator, Rogenmoser says, is Jasper Art, a recently launched AI art-generating system. While a number of free and paid alternatives to Jasper Art exist (see Stable Diffusion, Pixelz.ai Of course, like other AI text-to-image systems, Jasper Art has limitations. Image Credits: Jasper.

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2022

The whole scheme might help illustrate why art can’t be reduced to a neat series of copyright licenses — rather than simply showing that “crypto bros aren’t sure how rights work.”. Buying Dune’s script doesn’t give you the copyright — but it earns you lots of publicity. That said, a lot of them probably aren’t.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2022

We’re even beginning to see an emergence of AI in marketing and art. . What does AI art mean for designers? I asked Rob Shaw, Art Director at Media Cause , for his thoughts on the implications of text-to-image technology: . And this applies directly to my main concern: copyright infringement and/or usage without consent.

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The Verge

JUNE 21, 2021

The lawsuit claims Dash partnered with platform SuperFarm to auction an NFT of Reasonable Doubt , following a well-trodden path of selling art ownership via NFT. But you can also interpret it as a full-fledged sale of the copyright, and the press release’s title promotes an “auction for Jay-Z’s iconic album Reasonable Doubt.”

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Opening Keynote Ignite the Power: How Associations Create Irresistible Trends Adele Gambardella and Chip Massey Adele Gambardella and Chip Massey You can count on award-winning PR strategist, Adele Gambardella for a unique take on the art and science of getting noticed. The use of AI in IP also raises additional questions.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

To spread their fake goods on platforms like Facebook and Amazon, counterfeiters take advantage of a legal provision that protects those companies from user-generated copyright infringement. Even people who should be experts in copyright matters can struggle to contend with takedown policies. Images: Matt Buchholz.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do to get my novels out in the world, and have been greatly influenced by Cory Doctorow in terms of copyright (or, more accurately, copyleft ). I write a fair bit of science fiction, and also write other stuff. I’m talking in this post about self-publishing eBooks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

“Within AI more broadly, training state-of-the-art models remains expensive,” Steinberger admitted. Like most AI-powered code-generating systems, Magic was trained on publicly available code, some of which is copyrighted. “This raises the bar for new entrants like us.” But not everyone agrees.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009. Museums used these thematic lists to develop scavenger hunt lists to distribute to participants so that they might find art objects to illustrate Wikipedia topics like "Roman architecture" or "mask."

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

” Using art-generating AI, Deep Agency creates and offers “virtual models” for hire starting at $29 per month (for a limited time), letting customers place the models against digital backdrops to realize their photoshoots. “What is Deep Agency? ” Other critics take issue with the underlying technology.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Federal copyright and trademark laws were not written with NFTs in mind, which means that it’s up to the courts to adjudicate disputes pursuant to existing laws until revised federal statutes are enacted. Constitution — like Andy Warhol’s use of Campbell Soup labels in his art.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Stability AI , the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion , today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended to go head to head with systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. In any case, Stability AI hasn’t shied away from controversy historically.

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The Verge

JULY 25, 2021

It just depends how well the game’s art style works with the AI algorithms bringing it back to life. If you’re a big video game industry executive, would you perhaps consider not firing ze copyright missiles? Or perhaps even better. The Kingdom Hearts intros, for instance, look incredible.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Called Stable Diffusion XL, or SDXL , the new system — which is available in beta through DreamStudio, Stability AI’s generative art tool — improves upon the original in key ways. SDXL is supposedly better at generating text, too, a task that’s historically thrown generative AI art models for a loop.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The companys also currently embroiled in a lawsuit that accuses it of training Llama models on copyrighted book materials without permission. The report suggests that DeepSeeks upcoming models could outperform the aforementioned Llama 4. This article originally appeared on Engadget at [link]

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

.” Copyright issues. But the copyright status around AI-generated content is … nebulous, at least presently. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently moved to revoke copyright protection for an AI-generated comic, for example, saying copyrightable works require human authorship. images).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Is google highlighting fine art? Update: Here's an email response I received from Amalyah who is an IP for museums expert: Munch's works are still protected by copyright, the term of which runs not. Munch died in 1944, so he is "in copyright" until 2014. Image from Art News Blog shown here via HTML IMG code (Hmm.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Online sales gave Gee’s Bend quilters control over their work Quilts made by generations of women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, have hung in the Met, the Whitney, and the Smithsonian Museum of Art. They’ve been shown at galleries and art fairs around the world. The idea is that it not become a dying art. Photo by Stacy K.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Instagram has posted its guidelines for using copyrighted music during live videos, Stories, and other posts on the platform, and part of the announcement includes a new update to the notification that pops up to tell users they’re using unlicensed art in ways that violate its rules. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

Many of the biggest publishers, like Activision Blizzard and Bethesda Softworks, pulled their games from the program , displeased that Nvidia was providing access to their copyrighted content without their permission and, presumably, without cutting a specific deal that would compensate the publishers in some way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology IP Tidbits August 18, 2005 Here are a few tidbits I’ve come across in the Intellectual Property arena in the past few days. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! issue as they see it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Within the span of a few months, several lawsuits have emerged over generative AI tech from companies including OpenAI and Stability AI, brought by plaintiffs who allege that copyrighted data — mostly art — was used without their permission to train the generative models. Spawning’s metrics speak for themselves.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, March 4, 2011 Research Friday: "The Art of Data Interpretation" posted by Robert F. Research isnt just the science of collecting data, it is also the art of interpreting, within the context of all other available information, what that data actually mean. Ashcraft, Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

Prompt engineering is a concept in AI that looks to embed the description of a task (like generating art of furry creatures) in text. Some prompts might encourage copyright infringement, like those instructing DALL-E 2 to generate “3D models of Pokémon.” Prompt engineering.

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