Wikipedia is giving away its volunteers' hard work and research efforts to train AI. It is an effort to fend off bot scrapers and reduce the strain on its servers — but to me it seems like that's not what most Creative Commons proponents have in mind when they sign on to help Wikipedia.
https://www.theverge.com/news/650467/wikipedia-kaggle-partnership-ai-dataset-machine-learning
h/t @dave
https://social.masto.land/@dave/114352800317662714
#AI #IP #IntellectualProperty #CC #GNU #Wikipedia

”…Sam Altman is, despite outward appearances, not a nice fellow. This came apparent in a new way on Friday, when TED’s leader, Chris Anderson, usually quite friendly to AI, pushed Sam on copyright issues.”
—Gary Marcus
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/sam-altmans-attitude-problem
#samaltman #altman #openai #intellectualproperty

#Germany, supported by the #EU_Commission's #DG_SANTE & several other #EU member-states, threatens to block the crucial #PandemicAgreement. Why? For Germany & its cronies, it's #BigPharma #IntellectualProperty über alles, even if this threatens the health of billions of people, even if it means violating international trade treaties.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1507860/will-europe-block-the-pandemic-agreement-because-of-one-word

Great to be part of the collection, celebrating the life and work of Intellectual Property Professor Antoon Quaedvlieg of Radboud University in the Netherlands. The book - Q - has just been launched https://www.ie-forum.nl/artikelen/presentatie-gedenkbundel-q-sfeerimpressie https://www.delex.nl/shop/boeken/q My contribution is on The Story of Shapeways: Reshaping Intellectual Property and 3D Printing in the Netherlands. #intellectualproperty #Netherlands #3dprinting

Ars Technica: “Literally just a copy”—hit iOS game accused of unauthorized HTML5 code theft. “Here at Ars, we’ve written frequently about the video game industry’s ongoing problem with blatant game cloning and the shifting legal and ethical landscape around the issue. But we’ve rarely seen a case of alleged game theft as blatant as the one surrounding recent iOS App Store hit My Baby or […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/literally-just-a-copy-hit-ios-game-accused-of-unauthorized-html5-code-theft-ars-technica/

The DC Circuit's decision in #ThalerVPerlmutter is out, ruling that #copyright #law requires that #authors be #human, not #AI, reasoning to this conclusion from the structure of the copyright statute (e.g., duration is based on the lifetime of the author)

https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2025/03/23-5233.pdf

via NYU Law’s Jeanne Fromer

I hope countries around the world feel emboldened to repeal all the intellectual property laws that they adopted in hopes of trading with the US. None of it matters any more. It should be apparent now that US tariffs are getting applied RANDOMLY, to countries EVEN WHEN THEY COMPLY WITH ALL TRADE DEALS. I hope they do themselves a favor and free their societies from the shackles of US economic imperialism and innovate in a way that US companies cannot.

Yes: respond to #USA breach of trade deals (imposition of import tarriffs), by revoking #Monopoly #Patent and #Copyright for #USA corporations, to the benefit of one's own country.

#IntellectualTheft (monopolies on culture) keeps medicine from the poor, keeps education from the needy, keeps science from those who will benefit. Now the trade deals are violated, no need to continue protecting USA #Corporation #rentier profits.

This is a great idea, I would love to see #Australia do this also.

Ironically, this article arguing for the social benefits of free use of information, is not on the open web (it's locked behind a login-wall).

https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/03/04/canada-patents-trump-tariffs-medicines-pharma/

@pluralistic's speech addressed "the unique opportunities for disenshittification created by Trump's rapid unscheduled midair disassembly of the international free trade system. […] The rest of the world has an unprecedented opportunity to retaliate against American bullying by getting rid of these laws and producing the tools, devices and services that can protect every tech user (including Americans) from being ripped off by US Big Tech companies.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/

TIL: Whatever #ebooks or documents you put on a #Kindle, they're being indexed & uploaded automatically to the #Amazon server if the device has an internet connection. Just found out with an unpublished #manuscript that someone wanted to read on their Kindle and it ended up on the Amazon server, although it was put onto the Kindle manually via cable. Whatever you do with Amazon devices, you're adding everything to Amazon's data collection. #Enshittification #AuthorRights #IntellectualProperty

This week's net.wars, "Optioned", responds to the UK government's consultation on creating a copyright exception for AI companies to train language models: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/02/28/optioned/ #Copyright #IntellectualProperty #UK

Some Observations and Reflections on Authorship in Modern Thai Buddhism (A free, 38-page article from 2015)

Tags: #IntellectualProperty #Paper #ThaiBuddhism #VinayaControversies
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/authorship-in-modern-thai-buddhism_seeger-martin

https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/results?page=1&pageSize=30&criteria=C&basicSearch=solarpunk

#TIL how many people registered #Solarpunk as a #trademark

We have at least 6 tradermarks for just the word! :D

Um, excuse me?

"DRM means that when you buy an eBook from your NOOK or from bn.com, you own that copy forever..."

That is not what DRM means. Period.

DRM is about imposing control, not bestowing ownership.

This is just blatant misinformation from Barnes & Noble.

#drm #liberty #freedom #digitalpublishing #publishing #copyright #intellectualproperty

https://help.barnesandnoble.com/hc/en-us/articles/5445106302107-DRM-for-NOOK-Content