Engadget

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Major publishers, including Politico and Vox , and their parent companies are suing the AI startup Cohere for copyright and trademark infringement, according to the Wall Street Journal. The suit also wants to reduce the access that Cohere has to copyrighted works. Vox publishes stuff like The Verge , New York Magazine and Polygon.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and its close collaborator (and investor), Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content. All rights reserved.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 26, 2013

In my prepared statement, I explained why well-balanced intellectual property laws inspire technology innovation and social good, and described how our Bookshare initiative models the good that copyright exceptions can create. To make this possible, we must keep the balance in copyright.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

After giving a presentation he’d previously shared at Harvard Business School, Stanford and MIT, Currier outlined the mental models unicorn founders adopt and offered candid advice for early-stage entrepreneurs, including his thoughts on building a founding team: “You have to figure out what you and your team are capable of doing. “If

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The Verge

APRIL 24, 2021

Model and actress Emily Ratajkowski is selling a link representing a composite image that features a photograph of herself in front of a print by another artist that contains a photo (of herself) taken by (presumably) yet another artist. The Richard Prince painting is itself a copyright nightmare. Is the font copyright protected, too?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

There has been a major breakthrough recently on international copyright negotiations in Geneva around improved access for people who have print disabilities. Answer : A copyright exception makes it much easier for people with print disabilities to get access to the materials they need for education, employment and social inclusion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . • law (this is a wildcard issue right now).

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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. They just hear her voice and see her reactions through the model that represents her.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

Uploaded on April 15, the company said the dataset "simplifies access to clean, pre-parsed article data that’s immediately usable for modeling, benchmarking, alignment, fine-tuning, and exploratory analysis." This has included copyrighted works, a contentious issue with artists.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Visually impaired his entire life, he was a tireless advocate for the blind and visually impaired as well as a shining role model. He has been described as the pioneer of Talking Books in India, and had been campaigning for a copyright law change to make it easier to provide access to accessible books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2007

, in which she argues that Creative Commons licensing, even if introducing an alternative and open licensing model, nevertheless ???strengthens strengthens the hold of copyright in our everyday life.??? iron cage of copyright??? Creative Commons, writes Elkin-Koren, ??? even though six CC licences. t seem like a big number.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Sophir is an IP partner at law firm Foley & Lardner LLP where he counsels clients in AI, digital health, manufacturing and other industries. Matthew Horton is a senior counsel and IP lawyer at law firm Foley & Lardner LLP where he focuses his practice on patent law and IP protections in cybersecurity, AI, machine learning and more.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

With contributions from artists including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Cat Stevens, and Damon Albarn, the album was released Tuesday to protest proposed British changes to artificial intelligence laws that artists fear will erode their creative control. “The U.K. a world leader in AI. ” The consultation closes on Tuesday. Several U.K.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

copyright law. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure. Instead of deciding what people with disabilities should read, we let our users decide which books to scan and share with each other under an exception in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 3, 2016

The creation of Bookshare was made possible because of an enlightened copyright law exception. And, that American copyright exception was the inspiration for the Marrakesh Treaty! law with the Treaty language.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

But perhaps its headlining feature is Ghostwriter, a suite of features powered by an AI model trained on publicly available code. Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI are being sued in a class action lawsuit that accuses them of violating copyright law by allowing Copilot to regurgitate sections of licensed code without providing credit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

“I spent years exploring potential paths to artificial general intelligence , and then large language models (LLMs) were invented,” Steinberger told TechCrunch in an email interview. “Within AI more broadly, training state-of-the-art models remains expensive,” Steinberger admitted. But not everyone agrees.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

copyright law. Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure. Instead of us deciding what people with disabilities should read, we let our readers decide which books should be scanned and shared under an exception in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper , announced Deep Agency , a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and modeling agency.” “What is Deep Agency? Nevertheless, the reaction to the launch was swift — and mixed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

While NFT marketplaces are required to comply with copyright laws, NFT fraud can be tough to spot, especially since crypto wallet addresses can’t always be traced to the real identities of their owners. NFT fraud detection startup Doppel’s founding team Image Credits: Doppel.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2021

But while he doesn’t mind his name being spit out by an algorithm that parrots its training data , Celis is concerned at the copyright implications of GitHub scooping up any code it can find to better its AI. Nat Friedman, GitHub’s CEO, has written on forums like Hacker News and Twitter that the company is legally in the clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It was at this juncture that we hit upon the Creative Commons licensing model as one that would help us achieve many of our aims of flexibility, scalability and being able to help catalyse our mission of a book in every child’s hands. Bio: Gautam John is a lawyer with a focus on copyright laws.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2021

The dictionary breaks words up into phonemes (discrete vocal gestures) that our model then uses as building blocks. The law has yet to offer an opinion on the legality of creating audio deepfakes of Gucci Mane. Is this copyright infringement? Greenberg adds that MSCHF didn’t approach Gucci to ask for permission to use his voice.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

An earlier copyright lawsuit filed by the ICC against UpCodes is still ongoing, but UpCodes won a major decision in the case last year when Judge Marrero ruled that its posting of building codes is covered by public domain and fair use. A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In the weeks since that announcement, I've spoken to some of the country's leading corporate law experts to gain a better understanding of OpenAI's plan, and, more importantly, what it might mean for its mission to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI). In 2013 , Delaware enacted its own version of the law. As of 2022 , 68.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The architecture of law creates conditions for innovation and can also chill it. These concerns are not hyperbole: In “ How Law Made Silicon Valley ,” Anupam Chander examines how the U.S. Open source is spurring innovation in content moderation while offering new models for community participation, oversight and transparency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I've studied intellectual property law extensively, but only in an academic context; I am not a practicing lawyer. How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights? Why should nonprofit organizations pay attention to copyright or your organization's goals? Get tech saavy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

2 Business model slide Market-size slide (“TAM”) Go-to-market slide (“Scalable process”) Marketing slide (“Massive channel opportunity) Product road map slide Thank you slide Pitch Deck Teardown: Gable’s $12M Series A deck Dear Sophie: What are my options for changing my status from an L-1 visa? 1 (“Employee view”) Product slide No.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

copyright law. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure. Instead of deciding what people with disabilities should read, we let our users decide which books to scan and share with each other, which was all made possible by an exception in U.S.

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The Verge

APRIL 9, 2022

Last October, the United States effectively made it legal to open up many devices for the purpose of repair with an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. and one French law in particular might have been the tipping point. and one French law in particular might have been the tipping point. What changed?

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

We’re told the most popular courses to study are: Economics, Medicine, Law, Computer Science, Engineering and school subjects such as Maths, Physics, Biology and English. What about copyright? “We also have a contact email for people to raise potential copyright infringements. Image Credits: StudySmarter.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Epic’s complaint argues that behavior also breaks the law. The character swings her pickaxe toward the screen, shattering it and displaying a message modeled after the original Apple ad’s memorable onscreen text: “Epic Games has defied the App Store monopoly. In retaliation, Apple is blocking Fornite from a billion devices.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Flickr Photo: Fayster Now that the stimulus package -- or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, if you're keeping score at home -- has been signed into law , the work of making it all happen begins. No matter what you think of the law itself, everyone in our sector needs to pay very close attention to Recovery.gov.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. It’s your car watching your every move to make your travel safe and efficient; it’s cameras on traffic lights and road-bed sensors watching your car’s every move to see that it obeys the laws.

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