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#intellectualproperty

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Strypey

But Carole Cadwalladr loses me about 5 minutes from the end, where she claims that copyrights are "property" and that copying public data is like walking into someone's house to "steal the silver". For one thing, this is just factually wrong, and was thoroughly debunked 20 years ago;

gnu.org/philosophy/boldrin-lev

But it's also the old anti-traveller cant; 'we can't have those kind of people loitering around here, going into people's places stealing the silver'.

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www.gnu.orgReview: Boldrin and Levine, “The case against intellectual property” - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
#IP#IntellectualProperty
Tokyo

TSMC trade secrets leak puts Tokyo Electron in hot seat

A Taiwanese investigation into the possible theft of chip technology at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is putting a low-profile, lesser-known tech linchpin in Japan under unusual scrutiny. Among the six people arreste…
#Japan #JP #Tokyo #chipmakers #IntellectualProperty #news #Taiwan #tech #TokyoElectron #tokyonews #trade #TSMC #東京 #東京都
alojapan.com/1341279/tsmc-trad

Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1341279/tsmc-trad TSMC trade secrets leak puts Tokyo Electron in hot seat #chipmakers #IntellectualProperty #news #Taiwan #tech #Tokyo #TokyoElectron #TokyoNews #trade #TSMC #東京 #東京都 A Taiwanese investigation into the possible theft of chip technology at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is putting a low-profile, lesser-known tech linchpin in Japan under unusual scrutiny. Among the six people arrested by Taiwanese prosecutors for allegedly stealing

Tokyo

Tokyo Electron Fires Worker Suspected of Stealing TSMC Tech

Tokyo Electron Ltd. said it’s fired an employee at its Taipei unit, making its first public statement since the island’s government arrested six people suspect…
#Japan #JP #Tokyo #government #IntellectualProperty #media #news #NVIDIACorp #Taipei #Taiwan #TAIWANSEMICONDUCTORMANUFAC #technology #TOKYOELECTRONLTD #tokyonews #TradeSecrets #東京 #東京都
alojapan.com/1340552/tokyo-ele

Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1340552/tokyo-ele Tokyo Electron Fires Worker Suspected of Stealing TSMC Tech #government #IntellectualProperty #media #news #NVIDIACorp #Taipei #Taiwan #TAIWANSEMICONDUCTORMANUFAC #technology #Tokyo #TOKYOELECTRONLTD #TokyoNews #TradeSecrets #東京 #東京都 Tokyo Electron Ltd. said it’s fired an employee at its Taipei unit, making its first public statement since the island’s government arrested six people suspected of stealing trade secrets from Taiwan Semiconducto

gtbarry

How the Free Software Foundation Battles the LLM Bots

The FSF finds its sites facing website crawlers that “ignore the robots.txt files, scan too fast, and take down sites” — and here the blog post calls out “especially” those crawlers “written by large language model companies.”

#FreeSoftwareFoundation #FSF #software #intellectualproperty #artificialintelligence #ai #llm #technology #tech

thenewstack.io/how-the-free-so

The New Stack · How the Free Software Foundation Battles the LLM BotsAs the Free Software Foundation approaches its 40th anniversary, it's facing ongoing and increasing distributed denial-of-service attacks.
ResearchBuzz: Firehose

NBC News: Fyre Festival sells troubled brand for just $245K on eBay. “Fyre Festival sold the rights to the troubled brand, including its IP, brand trademarks and social media assets, on eBay on Tuesday for $245,300. The online sale lasted a week, with 175 bids put in by 42 bidders. The final bid was accepted at 12:44 p.m. EST Tuesday.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/16/nbc-news-fyre-festival-sells-troubled-brand-for-just-245k-on-ebay/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · NBC News: Fyre Festival sells troubled brand for just $245K on eBay | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#Auctions#billymcfarland#Copyright
Mike Gifford, CPWA

The cuts to #USAID left a big hole in global health. The numbers of people dying because of the current US administration is truly staggering.

Imagine though if the world decided to re-think how international development is done.

How much aid goes to paying for #IntellectualProperty?

What if... the world decided not pay any patents on #pharmaceutical companies?

What if... rather than paying for #ProprietarySoftware, aid went to employ people in the country that is receiving the aid?

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

NiemanLab: What it takes to sue OpenAI as a journalism nonprofit. “Last June, the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) became just the second nonprofit news organization in the U.S. to file a copyright suit against a major AI company. CIR, the publisher of both Mother Jones and Reveal, alleged that OpenAI and Microsoft used its copyright-protected stories to train generative AI products, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/06/niemanlab-what-it-takes-to-sue-openai-as-a-journalism-nonprofit/

#AI#centerforinvestigativereportingcir_#Copyright
Copycast

#Copycast S2E1: History of Banksy's Trademark Battles

“Copyright is for losers”, said Banksy, the most mysterious street artist. Ironically, his intellectual property disputes are the ones that lawyers all over the world discuss every year.

In this episode, IP lawyers Victor Gorsky-Mochalov and Anton Endresyak review the most interesting moments of Banksy's legal fight.

🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4CvKc
Simplecast: copycast-by-claims.simplecast.

#banksy#intellectualproperty#copyright
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