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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

Happy Public Domain Day! Popeye, ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ ‘The Sound and the Fury’ and Thousands of Other Captivating Creations Are Finally Free for Everyone to Use.

On January 1, 2025, #copyrights will expire for books, films, comic strips, musical compositions and other creative works from 1929, as well as sound recordings from 1924

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

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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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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.