We're hiring! CCIA Europe is looking for a #Content & #IntellectualProperty Manager to advance policy goals on:

#IP issues (#SEPs, #copyright, and #licensing)

Content-related files (#DSA implementation, #AV policy, and #EMFA)

Apply now: https://buff.ly/DBW41f6

Earlier today I received this message from an acquaintance, about yet another suggestion to remove #IP / #copyright regulations. Today the same post has 9.6M views. Some arguments are worthy of thought but the overall idea is just a horror. Just consider how #AI companies would behave: complete madness, looting and stealing. Coming from someone who has the biggest alternative do #Twitter /X. The tech industry is really becoming an insult to humanity.

Fascinating - encoding #music so that it becomes unreadable and untrainable for #AI models while still sounding normal to human ears.

https://youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA

We don’t pay enough attention to how easy it can be to hack the technology so much of the world is adopting way too quickly without sufficient safeguards and testing.

It’s also fascinating to watch creators making technology to counter the theft of their #IP by AI companies

They can start by releasing their trade secrets.
Next, abandon their trademarks.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/jack-dorsey-and-elon-musk-would-like-to-delete-all-ip-law/

"Donald Trump’s tariffs demand a response. Around the world, that response has defaulted to retaliatory tariffs — a strategy with severe and obvious drawbacks. After years of pandemic shocks and greedflation, people around the globe have severe inflation fatigue, and few governments are eager to risk further price hikes. And while the world is rightly furious at Trump’s talk of annexation and other belligerent acts, that anger is unlikely to translate into popular support for higher prices on everyday goods. If there’s one lesson that politicians everywhere have metabolized over the past twenty-four months, it’s that any government that presides over inflationary price rises is likely to be out of a job come the next election.

Luckily there is another policy response to tariffs — one that will substantially lower prices for America’s tariff-clobbered trading partners while incubating profitable, export-oriented domestic tech firms. These firms could sell tools and services to local businesses, to the benefit of the world’s news and culture industries, software firms, and consumers alike.

That response? Repealing “anticircumvention laws” that prohibits domestic firms from reverse-engineering “digital locks.” These anticircumvention laws stop the world’s farmers from fixing their John Deere tractors; they stop mechanics from diagnosing your car; they stop technologists from creating their own app stores for phones and games consoles."

https://jacobin.com/2025/04/ip-anticircumvention-tech-trump-tariffs

The 5th Race + IP conf is NEXT WEEK. If you can't make it to Pittsburgh (which is lovely in the spring!) virtual attendance is an option. Check out the amazing program: https://raceipconference.org/2025/ #race #IP #history #music #mediaStudies #English

https://www.europesays.com/1983306/ Entertainment at Epic Universe | shows, interactives #america #AttractionsTechnology #BrandExperiences #Entertainment #health #IP #Orlando #sports #ThemeParkConstruction #ThemeParkDesign #ThemeParkInvestment #ThemedEntertainment #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UniversalStudios #US #USA

DEAR #IP #PATENT LAWYERS,
am still watching pre-code movies, particularly movies around 1928 the year Jazz Man came out and talkies became a thing.

one thing i’ve noticed are the big PATENT NOTICES at the beginning of talkies. that has made me wonder: i have not noticed patent notices at the beginning of silent movies.

so i ask: is this why there were a fuckton of independent silent film makers? did sound film #patents help concentrate power into the Hollywood studios monopsony?

Big tech companies want total control but opt-out should be the way to go:

"OpenAI and Google have rejected the government’s preferred approach to solve the dispute about artificial intelligence and copyright.

In February almost every UK daily newspaper gave over its front page and website to a campaign to stop tech giants from exploiting the creative industries.

The government’s plan, which has prompted protests from leading figures in the arts, is to amend copyright law to allowdevelopers to train their AI models on publicly available content for commercial use without consent from rights holders, unless they opt out.

However, OpenAI has called for a broader copyright exemption for AI, rejecting the opt-out model."

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/google-openai-reject-copyright-plan-bnnzztts9

"More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites based on allegations of piracy. The backlash was immediate and massive. Internet users, free speech advocates, and tech companies flooded lawmakers with protests, culminating in an “Internet Blackout” on January 18, 2012. Turns out, Americans don’t like government-run internet blacklists. The bills were ultimately shelved.

Thirteen years later, as institutional memory fades and appetite for opposition wanes, members of Congress in both parties are ready to try this again.

The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA), along with at least one other bill still in draft form, would revive this reckless strategy. These new proposals would let rights holders get federal court orders forcing ISPs and DNS providers to block entire websites based on accusations of infringing copyright. Lawmakers claim they’re targeting “pirate” sites—but what they’re really doing is building an internet kill switch.

These bills are an unequivocal and serious threat to a free and open internet. EFF and our supporters are going to fight back against them."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever

Freakier Friday
Megan 2.0
The Naked Gun (Liam Neeson edition)
Moana 2
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Shrek 5
Jurassic Park Rebirth
Final Destination Bloodlines
Superman (James Gunn edition)
Happy Gilmore 2
Lilo & Stitch (live action)
The Accountant 2
Karate Kid: Legends
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
Sicario 3
Nosferatu
Dracula

Groundhog Day 2

Ya see, Marty and Chris, the problem ain't Marvel, it's Hollywood.

Always has been.

Question to the network people out there:

Are there any ISPs that are IPv6 only (without providing a NAT/whatever)?

Background: Having an argument with a provider that hasn't published any AAAA records, and whilst I think that's poor form, I'm wondering if this would actually negatively affect any actual users in practice?

'The federal government will ban non-compete clauses for most employees, including hairdressers, construction workers and childcare centre staff, according to changes announced in the budget that could help households boost their income.

The policy, designed to come into effect from 2027, would apply to workers earning less than the high-income threshold, currently $175,000 a year.

More than 3 million workers are covered by such clauses, according to the government.' https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/25/australia-federal-budget-2025-non-compete-clauses-banned-details #auspol #auslaw #IP #employment #competition

Private #Browserfenster verhindern keine Identifikation im Netz.

Die #IP-Adresse und das Browser-#Fingerprinting ermöglichen weiterhin das Benutzer-#Tracking.

Wer wirkliche #Anonymität sucht, sollte auf Tools wie den #TorBrowser setzen. Doch auch der schützt nicht vor allen Gefahren.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/was-bringt-der-incognito-modus-im-browser-100.html

"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released February 28, the USPTO further restricted access to inter partes review, or IPR—the process Congress created to let the public challenge invalid patents without having to wage million-dollar court battles.

If left unchecked, this decision will shield bad patents from scrutiny, embolden patent trolls, and make it even easier for hedge funds and large corporations to weaponize weak patents against small businesses and developers."

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