Cool conference alert! CFP for #ISHTIP2024 is up -- if you are interested in the #Hist & #Theory of #IP get your proposal in by Jan 8. This international mtg will be @ Boston University, MA USA June 26-27: https://www.ishtip.org/?p=1374
#AI#GenerativeAI#Copyright#IP#AITraining#FTC: "The agency cautioned that generative AI could mimic “artists’ faces, voices, and performances without permission,” deceiving consumers about a work’s true authorship. FTC officials also expressed concerns about copyright violations, stating AI systems are trained on “pirated content” scraped “without consent.”
On copyright infringement, the FTC stated that “the use of pirated or misuse of copyrighted materials could be an unfair practice or unfair method of competition under Section 5 of the FTC Act.”
Separately but relatedly, leading AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic are facing lawsuits accusing them of violating copyright by using copyrighted content in their training data."
“What should the attitude of the returnees be to the new dominant population of the region?
The Torah’s answer is: respect.”
I appreciated this week’s Torah reading as well as the interpretation by Rabbi Dr. Farber. It feels very relevant, given the current situation, and shows a way forward that is very different from how the current leaders of Israel are behaving.
“Abraham refuses to take gifts given either out of fear — Abraham does have a private army — or as part of an implied quid pro quo.”
Respect for one’s neighbors. Giving them their dues – not taking anything from them even when they try to give it to you out of fear. The government of Israel has the army right now, and they hold Palestinians in fear. But Abraham shows Netanyahu how he should behave.
There's a website (https://songswave.com) that might have stolen your #music and plan to make money off it without your permission!
I've just found my album "Enjoy the Ride" on there being sold for €4.26.
If your music is on there, you can send them an email at the contacts they've listed on https://songswave.com/pages/view/id/2/ requesting they remove it.
#AI#GenerativeAI#LLMs#AITraining#Copyright#IP: "Web crawlers and scrapers can easily access data from just about anywhere that’s not behind a login page. Social media profiles set to private aren’t included. But data that are viewable in a search engine or without logging into a site, such as a public LinkedIn profile, might still be vacuumed up, Dodge says. Then, he adds, “there’s the kinds of things that absolutely end up in these Web scrapes”—including blogs, personal webpages and company sites. This includes anything on popular photograph-sharing site Flickr, online marketplaces, voter registration databases, government webpages, Wikipedia, Reddit, research repositories, news outlets and academic institutions. Plus, there are pirated content compilations and Web archives, which often contain data that have since been removed from their original location on the Web. And scraped databases do not go away. “If there was text scraped from a public website in 2018, that’s forever going to be available, whether [the site or post has] been taken down or not,” Dodge notes."
Smart people of mastodon: is there an easy layman friendly way of searching existing IP/patent kid of thing to see if your idea isn’t as innovative as you think? #ip#intelectualproperty#patent
#Copyright#Gender#FairRemuneration#IP: "In reviewing this data, I was reminded of Carys Craig’s research synopsis for our 21 for 21 project, which reflected on the empirical evidence relating to gender and copyright. She concluded ‘that the beneficiaries [of copyright] have been disproportionately male should, frankly, come as no surprise.’ So many years on it seems that copyright hasn’t translated into the conditions for material wealth, and the intellectual freedom for women, as hoped for by Woolf; rather, copyright is only a source of wealth insofar as the author also benefits from the (implied) characteristics that make its ‘fair’ exploitation possible. It is worth noting that from our findings, the same is also true for authors of colour and authors with disabilities; both groups likewise earn disproportionately less than white authors or able-bodied authors respectively in both surveys. The gendered difference in the exploitation of copyright is therefore only one (albeit important) facet of the shortcomings of the existing system." https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2023/10/31/a-room-of-ones-own-and-a-copyright/
Są z nami od dawna i bardzo często pojawiają się w różnych sytuacjach. Dla niektórych bardzo proste w zrozumieniu, a dla innych - jakaś czarna magia, co to w ogóle jest, "co tu się stanęło"? Tym drugim z lubością jeszcze raz przybliżymy, czym są adresy IP.
#Music#Streaming#Spotify#DualLicensing#Copyright#IP: "With the dust still far from settled on the UMG / Deezer streaming royalty proposal, something even bigger is coming: Spotify is turning the concept into reality in Q1 2024. The behind-the-scenes conversations have been ongoing for some time, but the details were stated publicly on panels at last week’s ADE conference, meaning that the information is now firmly in the public domain. Obviously, nothing is official at this stage, so consider this ‘as reported’ information. Even if the final details end up varying, what is clear is that two-tier licensing is about to become a reality.
Things are moving fast, going from ‘limited trial’ to ‘actually happening’ in the proverbial blink of the eye. If Spotify is indeed set to launch two-tier royalties just months from now, it begs the question as to what the Deezer trial was about in the first place? If decisions had already been made elsewhere, then the likelihood is that it was a way of softening up industry opinion before the big news hit next year, to acclimatise the industry community to the concept ahead of launch.
Streaming democratised access to the means of distribution, enabling an unprecedented growth in artists and releases. But the brake is now being firmly applied. Streams may have all been created equal, but now some streams are becoming more equal than others." https://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/two-tier-licensing-is-about-to-become-a-reality
#AI#ComputerVision#Surveillance#Patents#IP: "A rapidly growing number of voices argue that AI research, and computer vision in particular, is powering mass surveillance. Yet the direct path from computer vision research to surveillance has remained obscured and difficult to assess. Here, we reveal the Surveillance AI pipeline by analyzing three decades of computer vision research papers and downstream patents, more than 40,000 documents. We find the large majority of annotated computer vision papers and patents self-report their technology enables extracting data about humans. Moreover, the majority of these technologies specifically enable extracting data about human bodies and body parts. We present both quantitative and rich qualitative analysis illuminating these practices of human data extraction. Studying the roots of this pipeline, we find that institutions that prolifically produce computer vision research, namely elite universities and "big tech" corporations, are subsequently cited in thousands of surveillance patents. Further, we find consistent evidence against the narrative that only these few rogue entities are contributing to surveillance. Rather, we expose the fieldwide norm that when an institution, nation, or subfield authors computer vision papers with downstream patents, the majority of these papers are used in surveillance patents. In total, we find the number of papers with downstream surveillance patents increased more than five-fold between the 1990s and the 2010s, with computer vision research now having been used in more than 11,000 surveillance patents. Finally, in addition to the high levels of surveillance we find documented in computer vision papers and patents, we unearth pervasive patterns of documents using language that obfuscates the extent of surveillance. Our analysis reveals the pipeline by which computer vision research has powered the ongoing expansion of surveillance."
Google will soon start testing a new ‘IP protection’ feature for Chrome users, offering them greater control over their privacy. The tech giant the upcoming feature prevents websites from tracking users by hiding their IP address using proxy servers owned by Google....
#AI#GenerativeAI#IP#Copyright: "The right to culture and science and freedom of artistic expression, as enshrined by European and international human rights law, can justify the introduction of a statutory license that will grant an appealing environment for AI creativity without jeopardizing the right of the human authors to be remunerated for the commercial use of their works. This compromise solution within the copyright system is the result of a balancing exercise that is inherent to any conflict between divergent fundamental rights. Despite some difficulties in reaching the optimal equilibrium, fundamental rights should remain the compass to navigate the seas of the still unexplored digital ecosystems and frontier technologies (see Geiger). In this case, where the exploitation of copyright-protected works to train generative AI models challenged the anthropocentric nature and function of the copyright system, fundamental rights can be valid allies to reconcile machine generated outputs and human creativity."
One example from the lawsuit: When a user asks Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude about the lyrics to the song “Roar” by Katy Perry, it generates an “almost identical copy of those lyrics,” violating the rights of Concord, the copyright owner, per the filing. The lawsuit also named Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” as an example of Anthropic’s alleged copyright infringement, as Universal owns the rights to its lyrics.
“In the process of building and operating AI models, Anthropic unlawfully copies and disseminates vast amounts of copyrighted works,” the lawsuit stated, later going on to add, “Just like the developers of other technologies that have come before, from the printing press to the copy machine to the web-crawler, AI companies must follow the law.”"
Welp, looks like Ublock Origin is over... YT now detects it and harasses your ass to try & give up your safety/comfort just so they can throw malicious ads down your throat.
And no, I won't stop using my adblocker as it keeps me safe, comfortable and secure from the tones of malicious/toxic ads YT tries to expose you to.
Hopefully UBlock manage to find a patch that stops YT from doing this if its still possible.
@Lil_VampireCJ That's gonna be hard, because there are multiple layers and any of them if not multiple ones could be causing this.
Mind you this ain't your regular #PiHole-like #Blocker that just redirects #DNS requests to #localhost, but literally reverse-#DNSes even #IP adresses and blocks them as well...
Attention music nerds, a very cool project a friend has been working on! This is how you use AI ethically...
"This is it @friends!! I'm FINALLY TO ANNOUNCE what i've been up to!! Yay!!
I think it's insane that AI companies are training their models on art / stuff that they don't own the rights to.
And I think there is no industry / vertical that understands this more than music.
We've decided to do something about it and build a company to support that. Here's how:
Our customers train their own base models on the music they own the rights to, in our infrastructure. They have full visibility on what is in their model as a result.
For each generative outputs made through our system, an attribution report is made that accurately identifies which training model objects (ie - a particular song) influenced the generative output, and by how much.
The lie that you cannot trace back the origin of anything in Gen.AI has to stop.
If ChatGPT trained on your text, I think you have a right to know that it did, and should have the ability to know every time your work influenced a generative AI answer.
We must acknowledge the human creative DNA that the industry is using to train their AI models with.
And we're going to do just that. We're going to lead the way. And we're patent pending to help us do this!
I'm so proud to introduce https://www.somms.ai. This is what I've been up to with my co-founders Matt, James and Nico for the last year+.
Proud to be building this partly in the east coast (Halifax!). Proud to be building this mostly in Canada (and with Matt in Los Angeles, the epicenter of music).
I'm so proud of the work we're doing with Somms_AI."
Ab 12 Uhr ist GFF-Legal Director Bijan Moini im Rechtsausschuss @bundestag als Sachverständiger zum Unionsantrag, zur Verfolgung von Kindesmissbrauchsdarstellungen im Netz eine Vorratsspeicherung von IP-Adressen einzuführen. Die Bundestagsfraktion der CDU/CSU sieht eine anlasslose 6-monatige Speicherung von #IP-Adressen in ihrem Antrag vor. Das sind hochsensible Daten. Sie erlauben nachzuvollziehen, was Nutzer*innen zum Beispiel gelesen, gehört oder im Netz gesucht haben. https://bundestag.de/mediathek/live
#AI#GenerativeAI#DigitalRights#Copyright#IP: "A small correction: we are aiming at preventing large corporations from obtaining the ability to copyright work made with significant A.I.-enabled elements. We aren’t weighing in on A.I. machines—or their creators—owning copyrights. There’s a lot there on that issue when it comes to artists building new tools or forms of art—like creating A.I. neural networks. In that regard, we still feel like we have a lot to learn. What we do know is that copyright has long been a broken tool when it comes to protecting the economic dignity and diverse creativity of artists ourselves, and we’d love to see something better, regardless of the A.I. issue.
We chose this specific demand because it aims at the heart of one of the primary pathways that corporations will take to replace human artists with A.I. If corporations cannot claim works with significant A.I.-enabled elements as their intellectual property, they will be forced to continue to hire human artists to obtain intellectual property rights. This is much the same as the WGA negotiated for their own members, although a different mechanism would apply to all forms of creativity—from photography to journalism to music—and thus protect some economic opportunity for the majority freelance and non-unionized arts workforce."
For a lecture dealing with DNS, I am trying to find a ballpark estimate of how often a DNS record gets updated. (In order to show how hosts.txt would never scale).
Up to date ballpark estimates of the current number of records on the internet are also appreciated.
Retoots while prevent a new Morris worm to ask all DNS servers to report the count in their zones :D
@Sobex most hosters' #TTL of a #DNS record is 3600s = 1h, but depending on the exact setups can be far lower for round-robin DNS.
I've seen some as low as 60s = 1min in some #API-based systems that use transparent DNS to load-balance as well as #anycast the request to the nearest node that is online...
Not to mention that even if we'd only have #IPv4 and only use each #IP and #FQDN once and every entry was just 128 bytes, we'd have ~ 512GB for a #hosts file...
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Das 40,00€ teurer gewordene Nachfolgeticket zum 9-Euro-Ticket soll Daten melken. Zwar solle das Ticket übergangsweise nicht nur für Smartphones erhältlich sein sondern auch auf Chip-Karten und kurzzeitig auf Papier mit QR-Code, aber wichtig scheint es den Regierenden vor allem anderen, dass mit dem 49€-Ticket Echtzeit-Verkehrsdaten erhoben werden können.
Positiv klingt zunächst: "Es werde nicht gespeichert, wer von A nach B fährt, sondern nur, wie stark die Verkehrsmittel ausgelastet sind. Für die Fahrgäste könnte das ein Nutzen sein, weil die Verkehrsunternehmen so für ausreichend Kapazitäten sorgen könnten."
Allerdings: Das Ticket wird wohl nur als Abo personalisiert erworben werden können, so dass darüber anfallende Personendaten zukünftig schnell integriert werden könnten. Mit Hinblick auf den aktuellen massiven Ausbau des Überwachungsstaats und der Kontrollgesellschaft in Deutschland und der EU (digitale Personenkennziffer/RegMod, Chatkontrolle, Identifizierungspflicht, Biometrie, eIDAS uvm) ist es doch auch gar nicht die Frage ob, sondern nur wann und mit welchem Vorwand (Anschläge, Pandemie, Jugendschutz, Wahlkampf) personalisierte Datenerfassung und Polizeizugriffe kommen werden, sobald die digitale Kontrollinfrastruktur erst einmal errichtet wurde.
"The popular messaging app Telegram can leak your IP address if you simply add a hacker to your contacts and accept a phone call from them.
(...) #Telegram boasts 700 million users all over the world, and has always marketed itself as a “secure” and “private” messaging app, even though experts have repeatedly warned that Telegram is not as secure as end-to-end encrypted app #Signal, for example.
The fact that Telegram leaks your #IP address to people in your contacts during a voice call has been known for years, but it’s likely that new, less technical users may not be aware." https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/19/telegram-is-still-leaking-user-ip-addresses-to-contacts/
An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification ... (youtube.com)
Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does (indianexpress.com)
Google will soon start testing a new ‘IP protection’ feature for Chrome users, offering them greater control over their privacy. The tech giant the upcoming feature prevents websites from tracking users by hiding their IP address using proxy servers owned by Google....