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Overnight, TikTok video feeds started going silent—not as some sort of weird Charlie Chaplin homage, but because Universal Music Group did, as previously threatened, pull its expansive song catalog, igniting a “Mute-pocalypse” where videos featuring music by many of the industry’s biggest names (Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Lana Del Rey, Bad Bunny, Britney Spears, Drake, Post Malone, Fleetwood Mac) were suddenly flagged for copyright infringement.The reason is that Universal’s licensing agreement expired on Wednesday.…

New tools raise all sorts of complicated, legal questions. Most prominently: Should people be allowed to copyright AI output? And if so, who gets to be the owner? New tools raise all sorts of complicated, legal questions. Most prominently: Should people be allowed to copyright AI output? And if so, who gets to be the owner? FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the…

Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D won a resounding victory Friday at the copyright infringement trial over a tattoo she inked on a friend free of charge seven years ago. Nine jurors took less than three hours to unanimously decide the tattoo wasn’t “substantially similar” enough to the reference photo she used. The photo was a copyrighted portrait of jazz legend Miles Davis that was taken in 1989. “I knew that if we didn’t fight this that I just think it would have done so much harm to an industry that has…

Indian news publishers are seeking changes to the Information Technology Rules to ensure fair compensation for use of their content in the process of training generative artificial intelligence (AI) models in the country amid increasing AI copyright disputes across the world.Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) has sent a letter and made representations to the ministries of electronics and information technology and information and broadcasting, seeking protection from likely copyright violations by AI…

Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D appeared in a Los Angeles federal courtroom Tuesday to fight claims she stole a photographer’s “iconic” portrait of jazz legend Miles Davis and tattooed it on a friend without proper credit or compensation. The former star of reality shows Miami Ink and LA Ink sat before a jury as her lawyer alleged in his opening statement that Von D only used the famous photo for “inspiration” as she created a “completely different” work applied to her friend’s arm free of charge seven years…

A court in China has granted copyright protection to artists of an AI-generated image in an effort to inspire individuals to engage in creative endeavours using new tools, and to develop new tools A groundbreaking decision…

If you’re old enough to remember watching the hit kid’s show Animaniacs, you probably remember Napster, too. The peer-to-peer file-sharing site, which made it easy to download music for free in an era before Spotify and Apple Music, took college campuses by storm in the late 1990s. This did not escape the notice of the record companies, and in 2001, a federal court ruled that Napster was liable for copyright infringement. The content producers fought back against the technology platform and won. But that was 2001 —…

Two New York musicians filed a lawsuit against drill superstar Ice Spice on Wednesday, alleging her 2023 hit single “In Ha Mood” infringes on the copyright of their song “In That Mood” published a year earlier. In the 21-page complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn-bred rapper and songwriter Duval “D.Chamberz” Chamberlain and Bronx-based sound engineer and producer Kenley “Kass the Producer” Carmenate alleged Ice Spice and her producer Riot “copied” the title, hook, chorus, phrasing, and…

Ed Newton-Rex says generative AI has an ethics problem. He ought to know, because he used to be part of the fast-growing industry. Newton-Rex was TikTok’s head AI designer and then an executive at Stability AI until he quit in disgust in November over the company’s stance on collecting training data.After his high-profile departure, Newton-Rex threw himself into conversation after conversation about what building AI ethically would look like in practice. “It struck me that there are a lot of people who want to use…

This time in 2023, the world was in thrall to the rise of OpenAI’s dazzling chatbot. ChatGPT was metastasizing like a fungal infection, amassing tens of millions of users a month. Multibillion-dollar partnerships materialized, and investments poured in. Big Tech joined the party. AI image generators like Midjourney took flight.Just a year later, the mood has darkened. The surprise sacking and rapid reinstatement of OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman gave the company an embarrassing emperor-has-no-clothes moment. Profits…