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August Sander’s photographic archive in NFT copyright dispute

You wait months for an NFT case, and then two drop in the matter of days. First an English court confirmed that tokens are property (more on that when I get my hands on the decision), and now there is a fascinating copyright case taking place in Germany that could Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 2 monthsMay 10, 2022 ago
Blockchain

Whoever controls the DAO, controls the book: The strange tale of Jodorowsky’s Dune

Please gather around, and listen to this cautionary tale of schadenfreude and greed. This is not a tale for the faint of heart; it involves a cabal of crypto-enthusiasts involved in a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO), a failed film adaptation by Alejandro Jodorowsky of the classic book Dune , and Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 5 monthsJanuary 17, 2022 ago
Meme

Feels Good Man! Pepe, copyright, and NFTs

In 2005 artist Matt Furie created four cartoon characters for a cartoon called Boy’s Club: Andy, Brett, Landwolf, and Pepe. You’d be forgiven if you were not familiar with the first three, but if you’ve spent any time online in the last decade you’ll almost certainly have come across the Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 10 monthsAugust 19, 2021 ago
NFTs

Can Sir Tim Berners-Lee sell an NFT of the WWW code?

We live in strange times. People post selfies getting an injection. A football tournament is being played with half-empty stadiums. Sotheby’s is selling digital assets and sneakers, and it will be selling an NFT of some code by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web. The auction Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 1 yearJune 24, 2021 ago
Artificial intelligence

Can someone copyright every possible melody?

Two musicians have written a computer program that recorded in MIDI format every possible 8-note and 12-beat melody combination, resulting in 68.7 billion tunes. They claim that by doing this, they have managed to copyright every such musical combination with the stated purpose of pre-empting music copyright lawsuits in the Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 2 yearsFebruary 29, 2020 ago
Artificial intelligence

Chinese court rules that AI article has copyright

A court in the Chinese city of Shenzen has decided that an article that was written by an artificial intelligence program has copyright protection. The article was written by Tencent’s Dreamwriter AI Writing Robot, an internal code at the Chinese tech giant that produces half a million articles per year Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 2 yearsJanuary 19, 2020 ago
Copyright

Is it time to look at monetisation as a new exclusive right of the author?

The first experience that most modern creators will have of copyright is through social media, and particularly through YouTube. In the early days of the network, YouTube had the reputation that it was mostly built on infringing content, users would upload video clips and sometimes entire shows without permission, and Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 3 yearsNovember 10, 2019 ago
Bitcoin

Who owns the Bitcoin white paper?

There is a very interesting dispute taking place in cryptocurrency circles right now that has nothing to do with price, hacking, exchanges, or any other of the usual hot topics surrounding this area. This time copyright is being used to try to answer one of the most important questions for Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 3 yearsMay 24, 2019 ago
Artificial intelligence

Using Creative Commons images to train artificial intelligence

Whenever I have presented about artificial intelligence in the last few years, I often get asked the question of whether training an AI with data can infringe copyright. Take for example Bot Dylan, a machine learning project that has been trained using 23,000 folk songs. Does the music it produces Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 3 yearsMarch 13, 2019 ago
Copyright

The politics behind the proposed copyright directive

Last week we talked about the agreed text of the new copyright directive, particularly the problems presented by Article 13. Perhaps what is lost in all of the discussion is precisely why such a toxic proposal is being discussed and where does it come from. It is impossible to understand Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 3 yearsMarch 2, 2019 ago

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