A must have, if you want to browse the web without ads, trackers, malware and more. There are other browsers you could use, but with #firefox, you can install add-ons to help you mitigate all the tracking and ads. You can even install desktop only add-ons now, and supporting a engine which is not #chromium (controlled by Google) like every other major browser.
There are multiple forks available on the F-droid if you don't want to use plain firefox. This works on desktop too, I recommend #LibreWolf.
My favorite way of blocking ads, you have control over which domain the app can connect. It works like a VPN, but it does not make any outgoing connection. The bad thing is, if you want to use an actual #VPN, you can't have both at the same time and you need to disable your custom DNS.
I recommend to enable in settings > advanced options > block system apps, and individual domains too. When you open the app for the first time, it asks you if you want to block essential request for the apps to work, I recommend to enable this if you don't want apps breaking.
You android vendor may be killing the app, for this reason is necessary to add the app in the list of apps not be optimized by the system. If this issue keeps happening follow the guide from dontkillmyapp.com (advanced)
A DNS works like a translator, computers are good with numbers, but we are not good at memorizing long numbers. Computers communicate with each other using the Internet Protocol (IP), which are pure numbers. For example, your instance #IP is 104.26.8.209 but is easier to us just type lemmy.world.
A DNS is like a table where it has a relationship between keys pointing lemmy.world to 104.26.8.209, so your computer knows where is the computer is trying to connect.
Let's imagine an app is trying to connect to "https://ads-from.company.com", if you are using a DNS which blocks known domain ads it will redirect that request to "0.0.0.0" which is like sending it to a black hole. There are multiple DNS available, which different purposes, for ads, malware, porn, gambling, etc.
Have in mind that these are not full bulletproof protections, one may work better than the other, and can break from time to time. With popular services with ads, like social media, you could use alternative front-ends to their official client or website.
Here is a list of alternative front-ends and an add-on to automatically redirect to them, you have to use it with a browser and you can add as a shortcut to the home screen, better if it works like a #PWAhttps://libredirect.github.io
#AI#GenerativeAI#Copyright#IP#OpenAI#ChatGPT#NYT#News: "Ultimately, the outcomes may also hinge on the perceived utility and prevalence of the technology. The New York Times seeks to destroy all models trained with its content, but I doubt it will come to that, though I could be wrong. As someone noted on Twitter (apologies for not having the reference), judges’ decisions are influenced by personal experience, suggesting that the widespread use of ChatGPT by judges and their families might reduce the likelihood of the technology being completely abolished.
Furthermore, even if US cases are resolved unfavourably for generative AI companies, the global landscape is vast. It’s possible that other countries might seize the opportunity to become more accommodating to AI developments."
My dream is that one day, the "public domain day" list of works entering the public domain will be completely impossible and infeasible to produce, let alone read.
#AI#GenerativeAI#GeneratedImages#Copyright#IP: "CS: As artists: what do we want from AI? Are there concrete actual requirements for the AI community? Consent, credit and compensation I think is a major thing for me. I wish we could have nuanced conversations about Generative AI without it sounding alarmist, though I’m cognizant of the fact that I do think that this is going to impact aspects of the creative industry. I wouldn't be surprised if we see smaller and smaller fellowships, or a lot more confusion over the artistic and creative practice. Underpinning the global conversation are the misconceptions of how much creativity is worth and how long it takes to be creative, how long it takes to work on a piece of art. This capitalism hellhole we're in: every hour is subdivided into billable minutes, and with the rise of the gig economy, suddenly there’s an expectation that you’ll create a piece of really good work, that you are underpaid for, really quickly. You need a lot of time to be creative. You just need time to sit down and stare at a screen sometimes or look at something that has nothing to do with your work. That is part of the process. And I worry that this further flattens that, and puts us in a place where we're all urgent all the time."
#AI#GenerativeAI#GeneratedImages#Copyright#AITraining#IP: "Since the emergence of Midjourney and other image generators, artists have been watching and wondering whether AI is a great opportunity or an existential threat. Now, after a list of 16,000 names emerged of artists whose work Midjourney had allegedly used to train its AI – including Bridget Riley, Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread, Tracey Emin, David Hockney and Anish Kapoor – the art world has issued a call to arms against the technologists.
British artists have contacted US lawyers to discuss joining a class action against Midjourney and other AI firms, while others have told the Observer that they may bring their own legal action in the UK.
“What we need to do is come together,” said Tim Flach, president of the Association of Photographers and an internationally acclaimed photographer whose name is on the list.
“This public showing of this list of names is a great catalyst for artists to come together and challenge it. I personally would be up for doing that.”
The 24-page list of names forms Exhibit J in a class action brought by 10 American artists in California against Midjourney, Stability AI, Runway AI and DeviantArt. Matthew Butterick, one of the lawyers representing the artists, said: “We’ve had interest from artists around the world, including the UK.”
The tech firms have until 8 February to respond to the claim. Midjourney did not respond to requests for comment."
#BigPharma#Patents#IP: "Rather than prioritizing long-term investment in research and development, they focused on protecting their intellectual property. The pharmaceutical industry gutted research and development of new drugs. They got rid of all of many parts of that process that they could contract out or buy from others. What they were left with were drug monopolies and that really changed how they behaved.
Today, by and large, the pharmaceutical industry does little to research and develop drugs. They buy up other companies that have done that research, often with huge amounts of taxpayer funding. As a consequence, if you are a company that profits primarily from intellectual property, what’s important to you is not doctors and medical researchers but lobbyists and lawyers, because they are the people who are going to extend and deepen your patents.
You have no interest in medicines that would treat diseases primarily suffered by poor people in poor countries; you have no interest in dealing with pathogens that could cause the next pandemic, because in all likelihood, a pandemic won’t be caused by that specific pathogen. They have very little interest in curing disease, because their ultimate blockbuster is lifelong treatment for chronic disease — that’s where enormous amounts of their time and energy are spent."
The fight around IP/copyright with regard to trainingdata for AI could kill all competition for Google and Microsoft , they will probably be able to make some financial deals with publishers, also especially Google has an awful lot of data itself. For smaller players it will be even harder too compete or am i too pessimistic ? #AI#GenerativeAI#copyright#trainingdata#IP#bigtech
#AI#GenerativeAI#AITraining#Meta#LLaMA#LLMs#Copyright#IP: "We have previously analysed US class actions against Open AI (here) and Google (here) for unauthorized use of copyright works in the training of generative AI tools, respectively ChatGPT, Google Bard and Gemini. To further develop this excursus on the US case law, in this post we consider two recent class actions against Meta launched by copyright holders (mainly book authors), for alleged infringement of IP in their books and written works through use in training materials for LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI). Such case law is interesting for the reconstruction of the technology deployed by Meta and the training methodology (at least from the plaintiff’s perspective) but also because the court has had the chance to preliminarily evaluate the robustness of the claims. Given the similarity of the legal arguments and the same technology being at stake (Meta’s LLaMA), upon the request of the parties, the Court treated the two class actions jointly (here)."
#Patents#IP: "How does a patent—an abstract legal form—accrue such contradictory associations with life or death beyond its legal meaning? Such conflicting discourses cannot be adequately explained by references to legal, sociological, or economic causes alone; patents seem to have acquired meanings that exceed their legal or commercial uses.
Perhaps IP law’s rapid and extensive private enclosure of what were previously public or non-commodifiable objects may explain the migration of IP forms to other social and cultural contexts. In this vein, much of interdisciplinary scholarship of intellectual property law have adopted a critical tenor (Biagioli, Jaszi, Woodmansee 2002). They have analyzed and critiqued the expansive commodification of cultural expressions, knowledge practices, and of everyday lifeworlds (Coombes 1998; Dutfield 2000; Drahos and Braithwaite 2003; Bowrey 2005, 2020; Macmillan 2006, 2022; Bellido and Bowrey 2022). This direction of dynamics—the colonization of social and cultural domains by law driven by economic rationality—continues to remain of concern. My focus in this article is different and is on the other direction of law-society-culture dynamics: the question of how cultural forms shape and stabilize legal-economic forms and their meanings. I want to probe and examine how patents have become signs of cultural economy and how their signification shapes the ideology of intellectual property."
Pex is a tech company that tracks and analyses copyrighted content on digital services. According to their data from November 2023, there are over one million tracks that have been sped-up, slowed-down or otherwise “modified” in places like Spotify, Apple Music and TIDAL. Examples include a sped-up version of Lady Gaga‘s ‘Bloody Mary‘ (25 million streams) and Childish Gambino’s ‘Heartbeat‘ (19 million streams).
These “manipulated” tracks usually do not have legal licensing to be used, meaning they are infringing on copyright. The original artists therefore do not collect royalties on the song’s streams."
#PD#PublicDomain#Copyright#IP: "Everybody’s talking about Mickey. On November 18th, 1928 Steamboat Willie was published, the third Mickey Mouse film by Walt Disney and the first one to be published with sound. The prior two Mickey Mouse films, including Plane Crazy, had not been picked up for distribution so this was the public’s first introduction to the mouse. Steamboat Willie may have been named after another popular movie that came out in 1928, Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr., or perhaps the Vaudeville song, “Steamboat Bill” (popularized in 1910) which was included in the soundtrack (along with the 19th century song “Turkey in the Straw”).
But there were many other movies that debuted in 1928, and here are just a few noted examples:"
#IP#Copyright#PD#PublicDomain: "Join Creative Commons, Internet Archive, and many other leaders from the open world to celebrate Public Domain Day 2024. The mouse that became Mickey will finally be free of his corporate captivity as the copyright term of the 1928 animated Disney film, Steamboat Willie, expires along with that of thousands of other cultural works on the first day of 2024.
The year 1928 brought us a host of still relevant, oft-revived and remixed culture, from H.P. Lovecraft’s classic horror story, “Call of Cthulhu” (originally published in Weird Tales; now currently a popular video game), to the Threepenny Opera, a critique of income inequality and the excesses of capitalism that is surprisingly on point for our current era."
As outlined in the lawsuit, the Times alleges OpenAI and Microsoft’s large language models (LLMs), which power ChatGPT and Copilot, “can generate output that recites Times content verbatim, closely summarizes it, and mimics its expressive style.” This “undermine[s] and damage[s]” the Times’ relationship with readers, the outlet alleges, while also depriving it of “subscription, licensing, advertising, and affiliate revenue.”"
#Redes#Internet#IP#ProtocoloIP#IPProtocol: "Nesse artigo exploraremos o protocolo IP, vamos observar parte do contexto histórico e entender a sua importância, apresentar uma visão geral das funcionalidades e posteriormente nos aprofundar nos detalhes.
Vamos começar pelo início de tudo, durante o período da Guerra Fria, que ocorreu entre os Estados Unidos da América e a União das Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, mas não vamos nos aprofundar no conflito, somente no que aconteceu a partir dele para o desenvolvimento das redes de computadores como conhecemos atualmente.
A ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency, em português, Agência de Pesquisas em Projetos Avançados), tinha a necessidade de transmitir dados sigilosos entre as suas bases militares e departamentos de pesquisa. A partir dessa necessidade houve o surgimento da ARPAnet (ARPA Network, em português, Rede da ARPA), uma rede de comunicação que também incluía universidades e algumas empresas privadas, formando um grupo de trabalho chamado de ARPANET Network Working Group."
Telegram divulgue votre adresse #IP à n'importe qui parmi vos contacts lors d'un appel et un chercheur a créé un outil pour exploiter facilement cette #faille. #Telegram indique qu'il s'agit d'un comportement attendu, donc il n'y a rien à corriger.
C'est pourquoi la meilleure #alternative WhatsApp que je puisse vous conseiller est #Signal
You've heard the news about 'Steamboat Willie.' For ongoing news about the growing number of resources available to you in the public domain, check out Public Domain Review—a valuable news site with extensive listings and a free newsletter.
#Disney#Mickey#Copyright#IP#PublicDomain: "On January 1, 2024, after almost a century of copyright protection, Mickey Mouse, or at least a version of Mickey Mouse, will enter the public domain. The first movies in which the iconic mouse appeared – Steamboat Willie and the silent version of Plane Crazy[1] – were made in 1928 and works from that year go into the public domain in the United States on New Year’s Day 2024.[2]
The public domain has had some famous recent arrivals, but this is the most anticipated entry yet. Why? It is not simply that Mickey is a famous copyrighted character. So are Sherlock Holmes and Winnie the Pooh, and while they entered the public domain with some fanfare, it paled in comparison to this event. I’d like to offer a tentative answer. The reason that this event gathers so much attention is that it is the story of a 95-year-old love triangle, a tangled drama that rivals any Disney movie for twists and turns. The protagonists are Mickey, Disney and the Public Domain, and their relationship positively exemplifies the social media weasel-words “it’s complicated.”" https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/
Statement from Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive: We submitted our appeal to the court today to protect the core mission of libraries—preservation and access. This is a fight to keep library books available for those seeking truth in the digital age.
Libraries are not just repositories of books; they are guardians of history and the published record. In this time of wars, election angst, and unstable moments for democracy, this fight gains even more importance."
Great, now we have to become digital copyright experts
the agreements and more fractious disputes between creators and the AI companies that want to ingest and use that work to build artificial intelligence models create an unhappy moment for both sides of the conflict
YouTube can't stop showing me AI deepfake ads (www.spacebar.news)