Sit Down was used in a video posted by Robinson on X that was highlighting the size of the protest. In his own post on the platform shortly after 5pm on Saturday, when many of the protesters were still gathered around Whitehall and Trafalgar Square, Booth criticised the activist for including the 1989 record in his content. The 65-year-old said: Disgusted to see the cynical use of Sit Down by TRobinsonNewEra. No permission was granted, and we are looking into our options.
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the European Union Intellectual Property Office announces that it will host its first two-day Copyright Conference in November; the D.C. Circuit finds that Shira Perlmutter showed a likelihood of irreparable harm in granting injunctive relief allowing her to temporarily resume her role as Register of Copyrights; Novartis becomes the latest pharmaceutical company to lose constitutional challenges to the IRA Drug Price Negotiation
If the Supreme Court doesn't reverse a lower court's ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people's internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects of daily life. EFF-along with the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and Re:Create-filed an amicus brief urging the Court to reverse the decision.
Instead, critics fear Anthropic will get off cheaply, striking a deal with authors suing that covers less than 500,000 works and paying a small fraction of its total valuation (currently $183 billion) to get away with the massive theft. Defector noted that the settlement doesn't even require Anthropic to admit wrongdoing, while the company continues raising billions based on models trained on authors' works.
The world of advertising campaign norms is changing as more social media influencers self-film advertisements on their phones, and are engaged by advertisers specifically because they're the expert of their own art direction and know what their followers are looking for.
Trump denies that in 2003 he contributed a crude drawing to a book of 'bawdy letters' compiled for pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday, as reported by journalists Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo in their blockbuster article.
Moonvalley has raised a total of $154 million in funding, with $84 million coming from its most recent investment round led by General Catalyst and supported by notable Hollywood entities like CAA and Comcast Ventures.
The Department of Defense faced a copyright issue after posting a video highlighting drone capabilities set to 'Enter Sandman' by Metallica, requiring the video to be removed.
The Fifth Circuit's ruling in Reed v. Marshall establishes that trademark infringement claims under the Lanham Act cannot be sustained between co-owners of a trademark.
The copies used to train specific LLMs were justified as fair use. Every factor but the nature of the copyrighted work favors this result. The technology at issue was among the most transformative many of us will see in our lifetimes.
Intellectual property owners frequently face difficulties getting their work removed from websites run by companies like Google and Apple, and other service providers where users upload infringing material.
The CC signals project proposes a solution that balances data sharing with governance, allowing dataset holders to specify AI usage while fostering openness in the digital landscape.