Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. Remember how crucial the Section 121 copyright exception was to creating Bookshare?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

The session offered some great primers of the various technical terms and copyright laws as well as some metaphors for explaining free versus proprietary software. The license: ???I???m m not going to assert my copyright rights.??? The other way is if the copyright expires. The license is ???GPL???

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

August 1, 2023 China requires AI apps to obtain an administrative license Multiple generative AI apps have been removed from Apple’s China App Store ahead of the country’s latest generative AI regulations that are set to take effect August 15. “As Who owns the copyright on ChatGPT-created content or media? users at launch.

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Engadget

MARCH 21, 2025

European copyright law says the company must pay publishers for using snippets from articles, and Google will likely use the data to try to kneecap news outlets' negotiating leverage. "During " The bill was passed and enacted, and Google struck deals with Australian media companies to license content.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

The announcement wasnt a total surprise: After the groundbreaking Chinese open-source model DeepSeek-R1 showed up in January, Altman said during a Reddit AMA that he realized his company was on the wrong side of history and suggested an OpenAI open-source model was a real possibility. Looks like LLMs still have some homework to do.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Its not artificial intelligence, where nobody controls the copyright, says The Bachelor music supervisor Jody Friedman. It can be licensed directly from artists, or from sync agents, production music libraries or a one stop, what supervisors call a company that has the rights to license both the master recording and the composition rights.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While many of the images come from copyrighted sources, like Flickr and ArtStation, companies such as Stability AI argue their systems are covered by fair use — a precedent that’s soon to be tested in court. Recent history is filled with examples of spectacular failures at adult content moderation. Artist impact.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

If your firm can accrete the value of the largest firm in the world in five weeks, and money is power, then isn’t your firm the most powerful private entity in history? TikTok signed a multi-year licensing agreement with the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA). And this one, about Apple. Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC).

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