TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The architecture of law creates conditions for innovation and can also chill it. Their open source activity alone contributes more than $100 billion to the U.S. Nearly all software — 97% — contains open source components, which are often developed and maintained on GitHub. economy annually.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Like most AI-powered code-generating systems, Magic was trained on publicly available code, some of which is copyrighted. 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

MARCH 3, 2023

But before hiring a TikTok or YouTube personality, brand marketers should brush up on the laws that govern how influencers operate, and the risks associated with failing to comply. To find your path, talk to your clients and understand their goals and pains.”

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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. Moderation and spam.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2010

I caught Brian Rowe 's Sharing Content, Terms of Service, and Copyright Best Practices session today at this year's NTC, which was a great primer for understanding Creative Commons licensing and included information on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and several other topics. He also talks about his Utilikilt. Tools Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2015

iFixit is an online repair community and parts retailer internationally renowned for its open-source repair manuals and product "teardowns." If we open up most of our devices, we are usually violating the warranty and (in some cases) federal law. This year the award went to Kyle Wiens, the co-founder of iFixit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Twitter faces a $250 million lawsuit filed by major music publishers The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), representing 17 publishers, listed 1,700 songs for which it sent multiple copyright violation notices to Twitter. The publishers’ organization said in the filing that it is seeking fines of up to $150,000 for each violation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. And then they go away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. And then they go away.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The app is also integrated with Whisper , OpenAI’s open source speech recognition system, to allow for voice input. The Italian DPA said it’s concerned that the ChatGPT maker is breaching the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and is opening an investigation. Are there alternatives to ChatGPT?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Haje has been taking a closer look at AI-generated art and is curious if copyright law is going to get interesting in the near future. Image Credits: Pulp Photography (opens in a new window) / Getty Images (Image has been modified). So, who owns this? How to conduct a reduction in force: Planning, execution and follow-up.

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The Verge

APRIL 15, 2022

Musk didn’t show much appetite for fighting global speech restrictions — noting that “in my views, Twitter should match the laws of the country.” It’s just really important that people have the reality and the perception that they’re able to speak freely within the bounds of the law,” Musk told Anderson. “I

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

When Stable Diffusion , the text-to-image AI developed by startup Stability AI , was open sourced earlier this year, it didn’t take long for the internet to wield it for porn-creating purposes. “We strictly allow only fictional and law-abiding generations, for both SFW and NSFW on our Discord server,” he said.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

But Shopify doesn’t really fit into the same category of laws as Twitter or Facebook or other social media platforms — so it has a different set of moderation challenges, and it’s worth thinking about whether the enterprise software that powers online stores should have to meet the same moderation standards as TikTok or YouTube.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

To that end, the company announced a new family of open-source, mid-size reasoning models called Nemotron. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google also called for protecting the Copyright Acts fair use provision, which allows AI labs to train models on publicly available data. Nvidia says both will reach the market this summer.

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