How can users of AI tools like OpenAI’s Sora video generator be sure they aren’t producing copyright-violating content?
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The earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse entered the public domain in the United States at the start of this year, 95 years since they were introduced to the public.
Copyright and intellectual property laws protect manufacturers, but can also affect consumers’ right to repair.
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Establishing the facts – and disentangling fact from legend – is not always straightforward when it comes to biography. Frank Moorhouse’s biographer unpacks his process.
Manufacturers have too much legal freedom to sell products that don’t last or are hard to repair. It’s time local law caught up with global efforts to address this environmental and consumer issue.
Traditionally seen as an American holiday, more Australians are preparing to celebrate Halloween. Here’s what we know about costumes, cosplay and copyright, just in time for the spooky season.
From left: Tim Flannery, Tim Winton and Helen Garner.
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Authors are furious about finding their works on pirated dataset Books3. Copyright is the usual avenue for redress, but while AI moves at speed, the law is slow – and not designed to combat AI issues.
The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.
Musicians and producers can already utilize AI to realistically reproduce the sound of any instrument or voice imaginable.
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AI can streamline the painstaking work of mixing and editing tracks. But it’s also easy to see how AI-generated music will make more money for giant streaming services at the expense of artists.
Given the hypocritical and exploitative treatment of artists by entertainment industries, do we really have moral obligations to pay for streaming services?
The shift towards digital access has changed the way libraries buy materials.
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When universities do use fair dealing to supplement purchased, licensed and freely available resources, they work within guidelines developed across the education sector.
Still from ‘All watched over by machines of loving grace’ by Memo Akten, 2021. Created using custom AI software.
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Robert Mahari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Jessica Fjeld, Harvard Law School, dan Ziv Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Intellectual property law wasn’t written with AI in mind, so it isn’t clear who owns the images that emerge from prompts – or if the artists whose work was scraped to train AI models should be paid.
Justin Bieber will no longer own the rights to music he created before 2022 – a legal expert explains why he made the decision, and why he may go on to regret it.
Canada’s extension of copyright to 70 years after an author’s death puts corporate profits ahead of the public interest.
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