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Know Your Rights During a Tarmac Delay

Severe weather and plane congestion have stretched out time on the ground this summer. Severe weather and plane congestion have stretched out time on the ground this summer. 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 primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not…

Elon Musk May Land in Trouble With Twitter Rebrand; Meta, Microsoft Have Intellectual Property Rights of ‘X’

Billionaire Elon Musk's decision to rebrand Twitter as X could be complicated legally: companies including Meta and Microsoft already have intellectual property rights to the same letter.X is so widely used and cited in trademarks that it is a candidate for legal challenges - and the company formerly known as Twitter could face its own issues defending its X brand in the future."There's a 100 percent chance that Twitter is going to get sued over this by somebody," said trademark attorney Josh Gerben, who said he counted…

Right’s Backlash to Barbenheimer Claims Feminism Deadlier Than Nukes – Rolling Stone

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is surfing into cinematic history on a wave of right-wing tears — and a boatload of cash. The blockbuster film, which grossed a record-breaking $155 million domestically (and $377 million internationally) in its first weekend has also shattered the psyches of conservative commentators who have reflexively branded the colorful, witty, bubbly-yet-deeply-introspective film a magnum opus of man-hating, communist-adjacent, woke feminism.  In a video titled “Audiences Tricked Into Watching The…

Fidelity Bank to raise fresh capital via public offer, rights issue

Fidelity Bank will raise fresh capital through public share sale and rights issue after securing key shareholders’ approval at an extra-ordinary meeting next month, the lender said Wednesday. Up to 10 billion shares will be up for sale through a public offering, while a maximum of 3.2 billion shares are to be offered to existing shareholders in the proportion of one new share for every ten currently held. The move will increase Fidelity Bank’s total issued shares by roughly 46 per cent when completed. Regulatory…

Hungarian bookstore fined for selling LGBTQ+ novel in youth section | LGBTQ+ rights

A government office in Hungary has levied a hefty fine against a national bookseller over a LGBTQ+ graphic novel series, saying it violated a contentious law that prohibits the depiction of homosexuality to minors.The bookseller, Líra Könyv, is Hungary’s second-largest bookstore chain. It was fined 12m forints ($36,000 or £27,400) for placing Heartstopper by the British author Alice Oseman in its youth literature section, and for failing to place it in closed packaging as required by a 2021 law.The Heartstopper webcomics…

Hollywood studios proposed AI contract that would give them likeness rights ‘for the rest of eternity’

In a statement about the strike, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) said that its proposal included “a groundbreaking AI proposal that protects actors’ digital likenesses for SAG-AFTRA members.”When asked about the proposal during the press conference, Crabtree-Ireland said that “This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their…

EU rules on AI must do more to protect human rights, NGOs warn

A group of 150 NGOs including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Transparency International, and Algorithm Watch has signed a statement addressed to the European Union. In it, they entreat the bloc not only to maintain but enhance human rights protection when adopting the AI Act.  Between the apocalypse-by-algorithm and the cancer-free utopia different camps say the technology could bring, lies a whole spectrum of pitfalls to avoid for the responsible deployment of AI.  As Altman,…