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How many layers of copyright infringement are in Emily Ratajkowski’s new NFT?

The Verge

The NFT, also, is a copyright nightmare, much like many of the images that Ratajkowski described grappling with throughout her career. Further study is needed. The Richard Prince painting is itself a copyright nightmare. Is the font copyright protected, too? To break down the situation at hand: There is the NFT.

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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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

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Winnie-the-Pooh and around 400,000 early sound recordings enter public domain

The Verge

The works are now “free for all to copy, share, and build upon,” according to Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain , which tracks which copyrighted materials will become public each year. A recent law, the 2018 Music Modernization Act, standardized how early sound recordings are handled under federal copyright law.

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How Gen Z is shaping what meaningful work looks like for all workers

Fast Company Tech

Jennifer Deal, who has studied generational changes at work for many years, says, When people talk about generations, what they do is they think about lumps of people cohorts that were born at a particular time, and that doesnt really have as much of an effect in the workplace as does life stage, career stage, and level in the organization.

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The Iron Cage of Copyright

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

strengthens the hold of copyright in our everyday life.??? The concept and mechanisms of licensing are introduced to people who would not previously consider copyrighting their works, and thus possibly commodify their creations. iron cage of copyright??? Creative Commons, writes Elkin-Koren, ???may

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Replit, the web-based IDE developing a GitHub Copilot competitor, raises $100M

TechCrunch

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. It’s unclear whether Ghostwriter, too, was trained on licensed or copyrighted code. That includes insecure code.

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Cydia sues Apple alleging its App Store has a monopoly

The Verge

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.

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