Hugh Stephens Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Image: Théâtre D’Opéra Spatial, Jason B. Allen (not protected by copyright) Last week I wrote about Stephen Thaler’s quixotic and determined approach to obtain copyright registration in the US for his AI generated artwork, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise”, created (he claims) exclusively by his AI “machine”, the so-called Creativity Machine. So far, despite repeated … Continue reading "If AI Tramples Copyright During its Training and Development, Should AI’s Output Benefit from Copyri

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Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Originally posted 2008-11-17 13:53:25. Republished by Blog Post PromoterNo, not that Sonny. No, rather this: If America’s most famous variety-show-star-turned-congressman hadn’t slammed into that tree on that fatal day of downhill skiing, we’d probably never have the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. That’s reason to mourn him right there.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

When properly implemented, “sign-in-wraps” support TOS formation. Unfortunately, some websites make dubious choices in their implementation, even though the protocols for proper formation seem so simple to me. Courts are also struggling with how to compare “sign-in-wraps” to “clickwraps,” which are treated the gold standard of formation processes.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Due to the staggering volume of content uploaded to the internet every single second, any hope that content moderation can be tackled at scale by humans alone, is already dead. The threat of so-called ‘upload filters’ under Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive didn’t just cause citizens to be fearful of the future. Tech giants including Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon all warned of a chilling effect if the law was passed.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

Technology

The Illusion of More

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

It may be true that “democracy dies in darkness,” but it can also be wiped out in blinding light. If Donald Trump is reelected, it will have been 20 years after the launch of Facebook and 18 years after the launch of Twitter—less than one generation for the “greatest invention for democracy” to be the […] The post Too Much Democracy Can Kill Democracy: Social Media as a WMD appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Our guest author today is a very bright high school student, Kavya Gundlapalli, who is considering a career in law. – DC Guest Post by Kavya Gundlapalli* As America heads toward the 2024 presidential election, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a surprising campaign flashpoint. From voter targeting to political advertising, AI is reshaping how candidates connect with voters – and exposing a divide over how this powerful technology should be governed.

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