'CTRL' Reflects on a Dual Relationship

https://youtu.be/dauLiCJe4Z8

TorrentFreak: Anna’s Archive Scraping: Court Defers Key Questions to State Supreme Court. “The legal battle between library database giant OCLC and shadow library search engine Anna’s Archive has hit a snag. A federal judge in Ohio expressed uncertainty about the legality of large-scale data scraping under state law and declined to rule on OCLC’s request for a default judgment. Instead, the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/31/annas-archive-scraping-court-defers-key-questions-to-state-supreme-court-torrentfreak/

TorrentFreak: UN Database WIPO ALERT Helps to Facilitate Globalized Pirate Site Blocking. “A report from Brazil suggests that the existence of an international site-blocking movement isn’t just a theory. After contributing 8,000+ pirate domains to a database maintained by UN IP agency WIPO, Brazil goes on to describe a ‘unified global effort’ and the importance of a system underpinning it. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/30/torrentfreak-un-database-wipo-alert-helps-to-facilitate-globalized-pirate-site-blocking/

#Germany, supported by the #EU_Commission's #DG_SANTE & several other #EU member-states, threatens to block the crucial #PandemicAgreement. Why? For Germany & its cronies, it's #BigPharma #IntellectualProperty über alles, even if this threatens the health of billions of people, even if it means violating international trade treaties.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1507860/will-europe-block-the-pandemic-agreement-because-of-one-word

Is digital piracy ethically justifiable?

Gizmodo: People Making AI Studio Ghibli Images Are Now Producing Fake Legal Letters to Go With Their Fake Art. “The trend of using Open AI’s ChatGPT to create AI images in the distinctive style of Studio Ghibli probably should have ceased the moment the official White House X account hopped aboard. But there’s a new wrinkle in the story today, as one of the trend’s proponents posted a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/29/gizmodo-people-making-ai-studio-ghibli-images-are-now-producing-fake-legal-letters-to-go-with-their-fake-art/

US judge dismisses Samsung's Oura lawsuit, ruling Samsung acted prematurely in seeking judgment that Galaxy Ring doesn't infringe Oura's patents. #Samsung #Oura #Lawsuit #Patents #TechNews #LegalNews #GalaxyRing #IntellectualProperty

Mashable: OpenAI’s Studio Ghibli-inspired AI art provokes backlash across the internet. “In the livestream demo of the native image generation in ChatGPT and Sora, OpenAI took a selfie and asked the new generator to turn it into an anime frame. The result looked a lot like art from a Studio Ghibli film. It went viral, despite some social media users pointing out the potential copyright […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/28/mashable-openais-studio-ghibli-inspired-ai-art-provokes-backlash-across-the-internet/

ChatGPT’s viral Studio Ghibli-style images highlight AI copyright concerns https://www.inbella.com/972739/chatgpts-viral-studio-ghibli-style-images-highlight-ai-copyright-concerns/ #AnimationAndComics #ArtificialIntelligence #AssociatedPress #business #DominicanRepublic #DonaldTrump #Entertainment #EntertainmentNews #GeneralNews #GenerativeAi #HayaoMiyazaki #IntellectualProperty #JoshWeigensberg #KarlaOrtiz #mali #movies #SamAltman #technology #U.s.News #WorldNews #XCorp. #YusufDikec

Save these dates!

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) will host a free virtual webinar on Intellectual Property and AI on April 23-24, 2025.

For more details and to register:

https://mailchi.mp/wipo/wipo-conversation-11-ai-ip-the-future-of-copyright-infrastructure-join-us

#AI
#Copyright
#IntellectualProperty

Reuters: Anthropic wins early round in music publishers’ AI copyright case. “Artificial intelligence company Anthropic convinced a California federal judge on Tuesday to reject a preliminary bid to block it from using lyrics owned by Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), opens new tab and other music publishers to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/27/reuters-anthropic-wins-early-round-in-music-publishers-ai-copyright-case/

"Judge allows 'New York Times' copyright case against OpenAI to go forward"

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5288157/new-york-times-openai-copyright-case-goes-forward

TorrentFreak: Meta’s BitTorrent Uploads of ‘Pirate Library’ Data Equaled 30% of Downloads, Expert Says. “A lawsuit filed by several authors against Meta centers on Meta’s alleged use of pirated books for AI training data and the technical details of BitTorrent which was used to obtain them. Yesterday, Meta filed a motion for summary judgment, while countering the authors’ request to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/26/torrentfreak-metas-bittorrent-uploads-of-pirate-library-data-equaled-30-of-downloads-expert-says/

The UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) survey for designers is closing next week. The IPO is looking for designers to give their views about the future of design protection in the UK and the systems that will be used to implement it.

If you're a UK-based designer, studio, academic or legal professional involved in design, and haven't had your say yet, head over to https://ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/design-review-survey/

The survey closes 1st April 2025.

Great to be part of the collection, celebrating the life and work of Intellectual Property Professor Antoon Quaedvlieg of Radboud University in the Netherlands. The book - Q - has just been launched https://www.ie-forum.nl/artikelen/presentatie-gedenkbundel-q-sfeerimpressie https://www.delex.nl/shop/boeken/q My contribution is on The Story of Shapeways: Reshaping Intellectual Property and 3D Printing in the Netherlands. #intellectualproperty #Netherlands #3dprinting

Ars Technica: “Literally just a copy”—hit iOS game accused of unauthorized HTML5 code theft. “Here at Ars, we’ve written frequently about the video game industry’s ongoing problem with blatant game cloning and the shifting legal and ethical landscape around the issue. But we’ve rarely seen a case of alleged game theft as blatant as the one surrounding recent iOS App Store hit My Baby or […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/literally-just-a-copy-hit-ios-game-accused-of-unauthorized-html5-code-theft-ars-technica/

The Society of Authors: The LibGen data set – what authors can do. “The Atlantic published a searchable database of over 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers. This data set, called Library Genesis or ‘LibGen’ for short, is full of pirated material, and all of it has been used to develop AI systems by tech giant Meta.” FIVE of my books are in this data set. Do you think I […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/the-society-of-authors-the-libgen-data-set-what-authors-can-do/

#AI #Facebook #books #IntellectualProperty #MITPress

"We want to be clear: The MIT Press has not licensed any of our books or journal articles for LLM training purposes, nor have we granted permission for any such use. However, we are well aware that many MIT Press publications have ended up in pirated training data sets."

https://mitpress.mit.edu/a-note-on-libgen-and-the-unauthorized-use-of-our-authors-work/

MIT Press: A note on LibGen and the unauthorized use of our authors’ work. “We want to be clear: The MIT Press has not licensed any of our books or journal articles for LLM training purposes, nor have we granted permission for any such use. However, we are well aware that many MIT Press publications have ended up in pirated training data sets. We share the deep distress of our authors whose […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/22/mit-press-a-note-on-libgen-and-the-unauthorized-use-of-our-authors-work/

New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-uspto-memo-makes-fighting-patent-trolls-even-harder