I've been on a little bit of an AI IP licensing spree for the IPKat lately: I have *a lot* of thoughts...
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Some feels about the Anthropic settlement. Spoiler: this is a joke and authors and human creativity deserves more than this. Also how is future competition and authorial livelihood irrelevant. Some far nicer words here: ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/09/gues...
A little bit of a break from bluesky but happy to have a few new posts on ipkat on Sylvanian freedom of expression drama, meta & slimy shady, & Missy Elliott's last minute settlement.
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Thanks! Hehe happy to have such good support at Chicago-Kent because that is beyond me!
Marking IP essays and the answer for nearly all problems, according to most students, is codification? Am I missing something here? Since when did the common law go out of fashion? 😆
The paid version of ChatGPT will happily make Studio Ghibli images. The free version tells you it can't because it's copyrighted. Doesn't seem great! www.businessinsider.com/openai-studi...
Maybe it also convinced them to also use signal over WhatsApp etc 😂😂
happy #worldpoetryday An oldie, but a favourite. sometimes life moves way too fast to keep up.
The perfect (pink) set up for office hours
Feels timely.
And the genAI landscape gets even fuzzier.
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Faversham, a love at first sight. #kent #nature #countrywalks
TikTok sunsets its creator marketplace for TikTok One, a broader solution with AI tools
Overhead on campus. "Orange wine isn't made from oranges? Definitely not as cool as I thought, maybe I should make orange mead."
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This!!!!! And yet publishers complain.
I think there needs to be more nuance though. Again we're artists are used to front policy change while publishers continue to licence authorial works to #AI companies. There needs to be a distinction of #copyright holders ie. authors vs those holding exploitation rights.
Let's not also forget those with exploitation rights (producers and publishers) that do not pay authors properly and licence access to datasets and for TDM and training #AI models, securing their own future income streams.
Amazing. Though nothing new in #copyright land. Amending boundaries to only foster new online business models - now it is #AI. Where is the author, the artist, the performer in these discussions? Clearly, absent. #UKpolitics
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You shouldn't need a permission slip to read a webpage–whether you do it with your own eyes, or use software to help.
still thinking about this question:
"you talked about how the law comes to bear on dupes. but how will dupes change the law?"
In Germany young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left
Publishers suing AI startup for ©️ and TM infringement?? Reputational harm stemming from being linked as fictional articles. Now only if ©️ authors could rely on [artistic] reputational harm for being used for training AI models. How the pendulum swings.
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Saturdays in Feb are for the woods 📍East Blean Woods 🍄
Just a wee excited this arrived today! Trying to catch up on views outside of trad legal and economic theory on AI. We need a complete picture for any future regulation.
Zara has a new collab with 'stylenotcom' - Could this be a nuanced response to fast fashion, copying and utility items? Possibly. But the tagline 'I always end up at Zara' has weight in the shadow of fashion week.
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Out on the sweeping plains west of Broken Hill, some curious teenager emus came all the way from the horizon right over to see what I was doing.
The wildflowers include darling peas, swainson-peas and native daisies.
Boolcoomatta Reserve, South Australia.
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London day trip. 4° but perfectly sunny. Russell square always brings back the best memories.
