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The government has adopted a bill allowing it to investigate businesses and disclose, as needed, their names in cases of human rights abuses and other malicious activities related to the use of artificial intelligence. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/ #japan #ai #personalinformation #copyrights #tech

The Japan Times · New bill lets government publicize names of firms who maliciously use AIBy The Japan Times
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"It may be the first time a jury has decided that #cheating software violates a #game company’s #copyrights.

The win may only mean pocket change for #Bungie, and it won’t likely put an end to #onlinecheating, but it does put a jury on record about the legality of creating such cheats."

theverge.com/2024/5/25/2416467

The Verge · A jury hands Bungie a victory in a landmark anti-cheating decisionBy Wes Davis

Well, here's a twist: American Airlines filed--and won by default--a #ScheduleA case against defendants who allegedly "carried out a scheme to defraud jobseekers in which they sent out emails holding themselves out as Recruitment Directors for American," using AA marks and "unauthorized copies of American's copyrighted images."

Am. Airlines v. Schedule A, 2024 WL 945262, at *1 (S.D. Fla. Feb. 16, 2024).

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@davetron5000 The ultra-rich have better options for deductions, including lower #taxes on #capitalgains because that's not regular income under US tax laws. I'm not a #CPA, but AFAIK 1099 income is still "income" taxed at income rates—unless it's corporate income, which is taxed on net. #Authors & authors' estates assign #copyrights & #residuals to corporations or trusts for exactly these reasons, among others. If you get substantial #royalties, talk to an accountant or tax lawyer!

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28. Update. I've argued here that #AI-generated #summaries needn't infringe the #copyrights in the originals, even if some still do infringe.

AI companies are growing in confidence that they can now avoid that kind of infringement & even indemnify users sued for it.
techcrunch.com/2023/11/06/open

"IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Getty Images, Shutterstock & Adobe are among those who’ve explicitly said they’ll indemnify generative AI customers over IP rights claims. Today, OpenAI joins that group."

TechCrunch · OpenAI promises to defend business customers against copyright claims | TechCrunchOpenAI has launched a new program that'll defend certain customers -- specifically business customers -- from IP claims.

"If #OpenAI is found to have violated any #copyrights in this process, #FederalLaw allows for the infringing articles to be destroyed at the end of the case.

In other words, if a federal judge finds that OpenAI illegally copied The Times' articles to train its #AI model, the court could order the company to destroy #ChatGPT's dataset. " #AILaw #GenerativeAI

#NewYorkTimes considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl : NPR
npr.org/2023/08/16/1194202562/