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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. We call this building the last “social mile.”
GitHub has reinstated an open-source tool for downloading YouTube videos, and it’s changed its policies to make similar copyright-related takedowns less likely. It alleged that the tool “was designed and is marketed” for illegally saving copyrighted music, violating Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3
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. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. Be Helpful.
This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. Software that is released without copyright or license is termed Public Domain software. You can find it online here.
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.
Stability AI, the company funding the development of opensource music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. House Representative Anna G.
Now, Google has launched an open-source API standard called Ripple that could theoretically bring the tech to additional devices outside Google — perhaps even a car, as Ford is one of the participants in the new standard. Standard Radar API” appears to be the original name.
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. But Stability AI argues that open-sourcing is in fact the right approach, in fact.
There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what opensource licensing can do for creative work. { I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! Be Helpful.
We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish opensource software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses.
A 2019 study from antivirus company Norton found that Apple’s stringent controls over what apps are allowed into the App Store made iOS devices somewhat more secure than those running the more popular open-source Android operating system. However, the US Copyright Office has established that iPhone jailbreaking is not illegal.
Oracle covers a complex question : what elements of computer code can be copyrighted, and if that code is covered by copyright, when it’s still legal to use pieces of it under fair use. If you let somebody have a copyright on that now, they would control all typewriters.”.
He further says: "If information producers do not need to capture the economic benefits of their particular information outputs, or if some businesses can capture the economic value of their information production by means other than exclusive control … the justification for regulating access by granting copyrights is weakened."
Their opensource activity alone contributes more than $100 billion to the U.S. Nearly all software — 97% — contains opensource components, which are often developed and maintained on GitHub. GitHub counts 17 million American developers on our platform — more than any other country. economy annually.
The app maker said this is because the app works on a custom model based on seq2seq hierarchal architecture and it is trained on a specialized dataset to generate copyright-free music. These tools are mainly targeting creators, who can use copyright-free music in their videos or podcasts.
Here’s a glimpse at what we’re delivering: Open-content, publicly available and freely shared image descriptions and reusable graphical models to improve accessibility of NIMAC textbooks and Common Core content (this is so cool, I'm going to write another blog just on this aspect: look for the Triple Play blog!) In the U.S.,
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.
Meta promises to share the latest on our opensource AI developments to help developers do what they do best: build amazing apps and products. The companys also currently embroiled in a lawsuit that accuses it of training Llama models on copyrighted book materials without permission. Its scheduled for April 29.
I quite enjoyed our discussions, which ranged from Bookshare to the need for opensource screen readers. A couple of days later I had breakfast with my host, Professor Sena, and we talked in depth about the need for copyright changes in India, a cause he had been championing for years.
.” 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.
” Thanks to recent advancements in the field of AI, both on the commercial and research side ( opensource models , the decreasing cost of compute , and so on), there’s no shortage of platforms that offer text-to-image AI art tools ( Midjourney , DeviantArt , etc.). Adato doesn’t see it that way.
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
“Key, recurring issues relate to copyright licensing and infringement, disclosures and statements in endorsements, compliance with securities laws, and defamation.” To find your path, talk to your clients and understand their goals and pains.”
Once it exits beta, SDXL will be open-sourced, Stability AI says, just like the previous iterations of Stable Diffusion. Stability AI is in the crosshairs of a legal case that alleges the company infringed on the rights of millions of artists by developing its tools using web-scraped, copyrighted images.
To observers, it seemed as if DuckDuckGo had de-indexed searches for copyright-flouting media download sites like The Pirate Bay and Fmovies, and even a site search for the open-source tool youtube-dl came up empty. “Anyone can verify this by searching for an outlet and see it come up in results,” Weinberg tweeted.
Framed by Kalanick as his “revenge business” after his previous P2P startup Scour was sued into oblivion for copyright infringement, Red Swoosh would be the precursor for Expensify’s future culture and ethos. Obviously, you have Travis Kalanick, who would later go on to found Uber.
We need to avoid simplistic solutions to the complexities: Open Standards Fundamentalist: we just need XML. OpenSource Fundamentalist: we just need Linux. Legal Fundamentalist: it breaches copyright, ??? Vendor Fundamentalist: we must use next version of our enterprise system (and you must fit in with this).
This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. While there is much discussion about the promise of "OpenSource" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs.
The answer for smaller organizations is to look for opensource software as suggested in the Cambridge portion of the tweet chat. The chat stressed the importance of communicating about privacy and copyright for those concerned about participating in digital storytelling.
– Whole Whale Regulations may come for AI and change how these tools evolve but won’t put the genie back in the bottle thanks to opensource models. Recent NY Times copyright lawsuit will be watched closely. What Search Generated Experience (SGE) Means for Nonprofits (Chat-first search)?
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.
“Our technology directly serves that purpose through an open-source approach to content, with safeguards layered in to moderate. What about risks around copyright? .” “From the ground up, we have developed our platform to give users the express ability to create,” they add. How are they managing that issue?
This is a round-up of some of the free graphics tools that various folks have recommended to me including some sources for copyright free images. is a free opensource application. Inkscape is another free open-source program that does much of what Adobe Illustrator. It is not a cloud application.
A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. It’s good for branding your nonprofit and protecting the copyright of your photos. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations.
However, these data can sometimes contain private information, including personal identifiable information, copyright material, etc. Transparency and verifiability: When possible, complete open-source code using standard DP libraries for the key mechanism implementation and accounting components.
It’s good for branding your nonprofit and protecting the copyright of your photos. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. PicMark is a free tool that easily enables you to watermark your images before uploading them to social networks.
iFixit is an online repair community and parts retailer internationally renowned for its open-source repair manuals and product "teardowns." Copyright Office, completed its "triannual" rulemaking on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The huge Volkswagen scandal seems to have helped the cause.
In the coming months, developers will be able to share information and best practices and theres the potential of creating an opensource community around Convio Open APIs. Opensource applications built using Convio APIs would significantly reduce the cost of implementing custom applications using Convio Open.
Upgrading to OpenSource Government When: Monday, March 16th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room Hilton D Description: The 2004 and 2008 campaigns use of collaborative tools, blogs and social networking have shown citizen activism and online communities can wield powerful influence. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:
The strongest case for copyright protection would be “look and feel” — and Cirulli’s game, with its autumnal palette, was a far cry from Wohlwend’s tri-color animations. The MIT License is, arguably, the purest expression of an open-source internet. Like “carving a sculpture out of a piece of rock,” Vollmer says.
Always be responsible when planning to create a web scraper: check the site’s terms of use and the hosted content copyright. To better simulate the behavior of a scraping application, I’ve also created a ‘year’ variable in the Airflow UI (admin->variables).
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