The New York Times has joined the AI Wars by suing OpenAI and Microsoft (complaint here). The case was filed while I was on my yearly holiday, so I am late to the party. Quite a lot has already been Read more
The copyright law world has been abuzz last week with news that a court in the People’s Republic of China decided that a work generated with Stable Diffusion had copyright, and therefore the author could sue for copyright infringement. The Read more
There’s a fascinating case developing in the US (complaint here courtesy of Simon Geiregat), which could have a lasting effect in the reggaetón music genre.In 1989, Cleveland “Clevie” Browne and Wycliffe “Steely” Johnson released “Fish Market,” which introduced an iconic Read more
While most of the attention regarding artificial intelligence and copyright has been centred in the United States, it’s useful to remember that one of the main pieces of litigation is taking place in the courts of England and Wales. We’ve Read more
It’s that time of the year again, it’s Spotify Wrapped Season. Mine was very unsurprising, I listen to a lot of Depeche Mode, The Cure, and Soda Stereo, who knew? Social media was filled with people sharing their musical tastes Read more
While we’re in the middle of a Golden Age for the discussion of copyright and artificial intelligence, one topic that may not have received as much attention as it warrants is the interaction between open content and AI, and in Read more
A few weeks ago, The Atlantic published an article titled “These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech“. This article discussed a dataset used to train some large language models, which has sparked controversy due to Read more
Over the past year, a heated debate has surfaced regarding the use of generative AI, specifically concerning whether AI-generated images should be categorised as art. This discourse has grown quite animated, with one faction staunchly asserting that art can solely Read more
At the start of the year, I wrote a blog post, committing me to remain on Twitter. This decision stemmed from an exodus of users following Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform, where, within weeks, dozens vanished from my timeline, Read more
On September 12, several French lawmakers from the Assemblée nationale presented a law proposal to the Presidency which has the objective of reform some norms in existing copyright law (text of the proposal here). This is a rather interesting development Read more