The Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin & Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared
#copyright
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Would Unity be making the same efforts if the stream was instead making images of some indie game developer's character? I doubt it.
www.gamedeveloper.comUnity promises strong AI copyright 'guardrails' after employee conjures Mickey Mouse on streamUnity promises its AI tools will have proper copyright "guardrails" by the time they become widely available, after a Unity employee used Unity AI to generate images of Disney's Mickey Mouse on an official stream.
Ousted US #copyright chief argues #Trump did not have power to remove her - https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/copyright_office_trump_filing/ as if trump cared about the law
The Register · Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her
"... in Denmark they do things differently it seems, which is why they are giving Danes the copyright over their own features such as their faces or voices. Why? To combat deepfakes..."
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/finally-an-extension-to-copyright-law-we-can-get-behind/
h/t @patrickcmiller
https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/114800560058072950
#copyright #privacy #Denmark #deepfake #deepfakes
Hackaday · Finally, An Extension To Copyright Law We Can Get BehindNormally when a government extends a piece of copyright law we expect it to be in the favour of commercial interests with deep pockets and little care for their consumers. But in Denmark they do th…
Publisher group files EU antitrust complaint against Google over #AI Overviews
SiliconANGLE · Publisher group files EU antitrust complaint against Google over AI Overviews - SiliconANGLEPublisher group files EU antitrust complaint against Google over AI Overviews - SiliconANGLE
Denmark wants you to #Copyright yourself. It might be the only way to stop #Deepfakes
Copyrighting our faces will be an effective way to effortlessly force platforms to take down deepfakes.
Despite all my complaints, I still wish @StopKillingGames success. The destruction of #culture in favor of #copyright and #capitalist ideology is indeed unacceptable and it is good to make a HUGE stink about it.
Currently, there are over 1.1 million people who have signed the #EU petition.
@StopKillingGames petitions the #EU to forbid #commercial game publishers to disable (or "killl") the video #games (that people BOUGHT) remotely.
Their demand is surprisingly soft. It only heals a single symptom, but not the underlying problems. It's still better than nothing, and can get the ball rolling.
We need to see the bigger pictre: #Copyright ideology enables the destruction of #culture in the first place. #Proprietary software and #SaaS just suck in general.
An independent country music artist sued AI companies Uncharted Labs Inc. and Suno Inc.—two companies already facing a lawsuit from major record labels—to ensure smaller artists are represented in the battle playing out over training AI on copyrighted works. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/country-artist-sues-ai-firms-in-settlement-talks-with-labels
Artist Anthony Justice and his recording company 5th Wheel Records Inc. filed proposed class actions against Uncharted Labs, doing business as Udio com, on Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New Yorkand against Suno on June 14 in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Aruni Soni #copyright #AI #music #country
news.bloomberglaw.com · Country Artist Sues AI Firms in Settlement Talks With Labels
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@eloquence
#Copyright needs to be entirely reinvented for the digital age. As it is, it is a jumble of laws built for the 45RPM analog radio era.
This can be done very easily, where everyone has access to *everything* and creatives still get paid. The only losers would be copyright lawyers & crooked publishers.
#ECJHighlights
09/07 (J): #EUTrademark – #Rubik’s cube (T-1170/23 to T-1173/23) 09/07 (J): #AccessToDocuments – European Parliament’s refusal of MEP Eva Kaili’s request regarding assistant allowances (T-1031/23) 10/07 (O): #Copyright – fair compensation & press publishers’ rights #Meta (C-797/23)
Stop Killing Games
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
Videogames are being destroyed! Most video games work indefinitely, but a growing number are designed to stop working as soon as publishers end support. This effectively robs customers, destroys games as an artform, and is unnecessary. Our movement seeks to pass new law in the EU to put an end to this practice.
www.stopkillinggames.comStop Killing Games
#PiracyShield Concerns Prompt EU Commission to Engage Italian Govt.- https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-shield-concerns-prompt-eu-commission-to-engage-italian-govt-250702/ #copyright
torrentfreak.comPiracy Shield Concerns Prompt EU Commission to Engage Italian Govt. * TorrentFreakIn a letter to the Italian government, the European Commission raises concerns over the Piracy Shield system and proposed legal amendments.
Disney Just Threw a Punch in a Major AI Fight
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we explore Disney and Universal’s lawsuit against Midjourney, which could be consequential for the future of how intellectual property is treated in the AI era.
https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-disney-just-threw-a-punch-in-a-major-ai-fight/ #copyright #film #AI
WIRED · Disney Just Threw a Punch in a Major AI Fight
Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney - The Illusion of More https://illusionofmore.com/major-film-studios-file-copyright-suit-against-midjourney/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now%2Fmagazine%2FCopyright%20and%20other%20IP&utm_medium=mastodon #Copyright
The Illusion of More · Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney - The Illusion of MoreDisney and Universal file the first copyright infringement suit by major studios against an AI developer in Disney et. al v. Midjourney.
Finally, An Extension To Copyright Law We Can Get Behind - Normally when a government extends a piece of copyright law we expect it to be in ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/finally-an-extension-to-copyright-law-we-can-get-behind/ #totallynotlegaladvice #copyright #interest #privacy #news
Hackaday · Finally, An Extension To Copyright Law We Can Get BehindNormally when a government extends a piece of copyright law we expect it to be in the favour of commercial interests with deep pockets and little care for their consumers. But in Denmark they do th…
Multiple AI Companies Bypassing Web Standard to Scrape Publisher Sites Without Licensing (Reuters, 21 June 2024)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/multiple-ai-companies-bypassing-web-standard-scrape-publisher-sites-licensing-2024-06-21/ via @cogdog
Some org (who I will name after this poll ends) published this poll on Twitter (
). They used the results to try to validate their POV on AI theft.
Though it won’t provide meaningful research data, I am curious to see how Mastodon responds.
(Please boost so we can get good numbers. 
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Question: should openly licensed content (images, music, research, etc.) be used to train AI systems? (Reply with reasoning if you feel called.)
ALL digital IP licensing of any kind is dead in the water until we have better methods to monitor and regulate AI crawl bots. Cloudflare offer hope in the future, instead of the ridiculous 'fair use' approach currently advocated.
CC licences have zero meaning atm, bots (and their owners) dont care what icons you have on your website. PERHAPS machine readable opt out (eg metadata or htaccess) might make some difference.
Ars Technica · Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl
Control How Your Content Is Used for AI Training With Cloudflare (Cloudflare Blog, 1 July 2024)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/control-content-use-for-ai-training/
The Cloudflare Blog · Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized contentCloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf, and allowing targeted blocking of AI crawling on sites that serve ads.