TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source 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.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Meta promises to share the latest on our open source 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

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 open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

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 open source licensing can do for creative work. { I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

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.,

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The company is seeking a jury trial and unspecified monetary damages: “This lawsuit seeks to open the markets for iOS app distribution and iOS app payment processing to those who wish to compete fairly with Apple, and to recover the enormous damages Apple caused.”.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 19, 2023

However, these data can sometimes contain private information, including personal identifiable information, copyright material, etc. We provide an overview of common techniques for obtaining DP-ML models and discuss research, engineering challenges, mitigation techniques and current open questions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

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. GitHub counts 17 million American developers on our platform — more than any other country. economy annually.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

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."

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

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. Image Credits: Cassette AI Tolani said that the tool was operating on a waitlist basis, but he is opening it up to more people now.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

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.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

I quite enjoyed our discussions, which ranged from Bookshare to the need for open source 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.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

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 "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs. or Why Not?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

” Thanks to recent advancements in the field of AI, both on the commercial and research side ( open source 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.). ” That’s an open question.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Key legal issues for influencers and brands (and how to deal with them) Image Credits: SomeMeans (opens in a new window) / Getty Images No one needs a mega-influencer like Serena Williams or a Kardashian to build buzz for their startup — an evangelist with just a few thousand followers can push qualified customers into your product funnel. .

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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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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

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.

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2022

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

We need to avoid simplistic solutions to the complexities: Open Standards Fundamentalist: we just need XML. Open Source Fundamentalist: we just need Linux. Legal Fundamentalist: it breaches copyright, ??? Be realistic and recognise limitations. Address inappropriate criticisms. Beware The IT Fundamentalists.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

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.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 3, 2024

This is What WW is Watching in 2024 (besides whales)… Whole Whale was creating an internal strategic document and we decided to open it to the sector. – 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 open source models.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

The answer for smaller organizations is to look for open source 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.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

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 open source application. Inkscape is another free open-source program that does much of what Adobe Illustrator. It is not a cloud application.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

“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?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

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.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. Frogloop: What is Open? If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

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.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « New Study: The Power of the Premium: Convincing Prospective Donors to Give | Main | 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO » Friday Mar 13 2009 Open Government: A Recap of TransparencyCamp Friday, March 13, 2009 at 12:32AM | by Tracy Viselli "We have brought the techies and the policy wonks together, and they arent that different."

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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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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? While celebrity endorsements have power in marketing, studies suggest that most people are more open to a transfer or exchange of knowledge with a respected peer. open source. Copyright © 2008. Micro-philanthropy. net2mashup.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

You should see a suggested action of “Open App” to build your new shortcut. Now, you’ll be prompted to set up a new “Open App” shortcut. Next to where it says “Open,” click on “App” to search for the X app. Go ahead and type in Twitter instead of “Open App.” Select that. Here, you can upload an image of the Twitter logo.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

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.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Upgrading to Open Source 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:

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