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The future of AI and journalism at stake: OpenAI battles news giants in copyright lawsuit

TechSpot

The publishers argue that OpenAI's practices amount to copyright infringement on a massive scale, potentially threatening the future of journalism. The case has merged lawsuits from three publishers: The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Read Entire Article

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New ‘felony streaming’ measure is aimed at piracy services, not Twitch streamers

The Verge

Monday night, Congress approved an over $2 trillion government spending and coronavirus relief package that included a handful of controversial copyright and trademark measures. More importantly, there’s nothing in the text of the bill that suggests platforms’ moderation of everyday copyright violations would need to change.

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Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case

The Verge

Journal articles are often costly to access, and many researchers and writers use services like Sci-Hub to bypass those costs. Publishers are unhappy about their content being distributed for free and argue that the site infringes on their copyright.

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Thanks to BitTorrent, The 4-Hour Chef goes from being boycotted by Barnes and Noble to a bestseller

The Next Web

The company summarized the achievement, detailing that Ferriss’ book will now be featured on The New York Times bestseller list, among others: Thanks in part to your support, The 4-Hour Chef will now be featured on all of the major bestseller lists: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly.

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New at Disrupt, the AI Stage

TechCrunch

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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Great reads from around the web on October 18th

Amy Sample Ward

And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? Tags: roundup bigsociety bookmarks conference copyright facebook irl list millennials nonprofits photography postalicious privacy resources sharing slacktivism socialchange socialmedia sxsw virtualworlds.

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TED thought for Benetech: health care education material and Bookaccess

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She described a nursing school in Luanda (I think, could have been Lusaka) that lacked textbooks or journals, and had weak PC infrastructure. This is unlike Bookshare, which is for the 1-2% of the population who qualifies for the copyright exemption. But, all the students had cell phones.

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