Earlier today I received this message from an acquaintance, about yet another suggestion to remove #IP / #copyright regulations. Today the same post has 9.6M views. Some arguments are worthy of thought but the overall idea is just a horror. Just consider how #AI companies would behave: complete madness, looting and stealing. Coming from someone who has the biggest alternative do #Twitter /X. The tech industry is really becoming an insult to humanity.
Manifesting #acting work in this social media era can be challenging because preparation of provided material, self-recording of audition material, and video-conferenced auditions generally involve intellectual property (IP), which is protected and which the #actor does not own, and non-disclosure agreements (NDA), which prevent sharing of said #IP.
So, here’s a blurry, backlit image of my ear and a field and a dead tree’s limbs. Fingers crossed for booking this gig on optimal dates.
Fascinating - encoding #music so that it becomes unreadable and untrainable for #AI models while still sounding normal to human ears.
We don’t pay enough attention to how easy it can be to hack the technology so much of the world is adopting way too quickly without sufficient safeguards and testing.
It’s also fascinating to watch creators making technology to counter the theft of their #IP by AI companies
They can start by releasing their trade secrets.
Next, abandon their trademarks.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/jack-dorsey-and-elon-musk-would-like-to-delete-all-ip-law/
"Donald Trump’s tariffs demand a response. Around the world, that response has defaulted to retaliatory tariffs — a strategy with severe and obvious drawbacks. After years of pandemic shocks and greedflation, people around the globe have severe inflation fatigue, and few governments are eager to risk further price hikes. And while the world is rightly furious at Trump’s talk of annexation and other belligerent acts, that anger is unlikely to translate into popular support for higher prices on everyday goods. If there’s one lesson that politicians everywhere have metabolized over the past twenty-four months, it’s that any government that presides over inflationary price rises is likely to be out of a job come the next election.
Luckily there is another policy response to tariffs — one that will substantially lower prices for America’s tariff-clobbered trading partners while incubating profitable, export-oriented domestic tech firms. These firms could sell tools and services to local businesses, to the benefit of the world’s news and culture industries, software firms, and consumers alike.
That response? Repealing “anticircumvention laws” that prohibits domestic firms from reverse-engineering “digital locks.” These anticircumvention laws stop the world’s farmers from fixing their John Deere tractors; they stop mechanics from diagnosing your car; they stop technologists from creating their own app stores for phones and games consoles."
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/ip-anticircumvention-tech-trump-tariffs
In the #US, corporate Intellectual Property is sacrosanct, but private IP can be seized by the police, and not returned.
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/free-speech-and-the-apocalypse
Will they even be able to make a call?
Gen Z vs Vintage Phones (Rotary, DTMF, IP Phone and more)
YouTube video: https://youtu.be/crOixebqkto?
feature=shared
#phone #iphone #android #rotary #pulse #challenge #call #ip #phonecall
“This is ChatGPT
writing a TED Talk in the style of Carole Cadwalladr.
And it is creepily plausible.
But what it doesn't know,
because AI is actually as dumb as a rock,
is that I am going to turn to Sam Altman,
who is coming here, a TED speaker,
and say that this does not belong to you.
ChatGPT has been trained on my IP,
my labor, my personal data.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#chatgpt #openai
#ip #intellectualproperty
#samaltman #altman
The 5th Race + IP conf is NEXT WEEK. If you can't make it to Pittsburgh (which is lovely in the spring!) virtual attendance is an option. Check out the amazing program: https://raceipconference.org/2025/ #race #IP #history #music #mediaStudies #English
https://www.europesays.com/1983306/ Entertainment at Epic Universe | shows, interactives #america #AttractionsTechnology #BrandExperiences #Entertainment #health #IP #Orlando #sports #ThemeParkConstruction #ThemeParkDesign #ThemeParkInvestment #ThemedEntertainment #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UniversalStudios #US #USA
This time the ISP decided to drop the amount of bandwidth that it gives to the clients, the paying clients without any nice warning
Feast yourself on the amount of bandwidth I get for the ridiculously high amount of money in USD
My ISP gave me an interesting scare a couple of minutes ago. As you know if you do not want to pay them for a permanent IPv4 address, which I consider obsolete networking, they remotely reboot your gateway device and assign it a random IP out of one of their IPv4 pools.
This time it didn't take the usual long 30 to 90 Seconds to reboot the device and transfer credentials to obtain the new IP.
The Gateway got in an infinite loop somewhere and I had to Power it off, then had to wait 90 seconds to power cycle it before it took 180 seconds for the device to finally get the new IP.
Someone screwed up the login sequences for the xDSL devices of which the hashtag is in the toot and now we as the paying customer again have to pay for it in wasted time.
Luckily this power cycling off xDSL devices occurs only once in 6 weeks and usually I do not use the internet at that point in time.
In case you are wondering my Gateway uses obsolete technology, is forcibly assigned by the ISP and it's also cursed with a extremely low transfer speed.
I just included a speedtest after first draft of this toot
As you can see the speeds here are so low the connection is virtually unusable for anything where you have to move a big bites of data. They still manage to extort more than USD 30 a month for this connection
DEAR #IP #PATENT LAWYERS,
am still watching pre-code movies, particularly movies around 1928 the year Jazz Man came out and talkies became a thing.
one thing i’ve noticed are the big PATENT NOTICES at the beginning of talkies. that has made me wonder: i have not noticed patent notices at the beginning of silent movies.
so i ask: is this why there were a fuckton of independent silent film makers? did sound film #patents help concentrate power into the Hollywood studios monopsony?
@mpjgregoire @pluralistic Just to add to that plan of defence against the continuation of a tariffs war! Corporations like Starlink, Meta, Amazon, Google,…etc. and the petrochemical ones are not persons or have absolute rights unless the people want to give up all theirs. The rights of Republics interests must always be greater than that of the corporations and the corporations greater than that of the family. Ending the savage and barbaric reign of oligarchs empires, also entails the rights of the Republics Federation are greater than any Republic. #Tariffs #IP #EthicalTrade #DefendingRepublics #CorporateTyranny
Big tech companies want total control but opt-out should be the way to go:
"OpenAI and Google have rejected the government’s preferred approach to solve the dispute about artificial intelligence and copyright.
In February almost every UK daily newspaper gave over its front page and website to a campaign to stop tech giants from exploiting the creative industries.
The government’s plan, which has prompted protests from leading figures in the arts, is to amend copyright law to allowdevelopers to train their AI models on publicly available content for commercial use without consent from rights holders, unless they opt out.
However, OpenAI has called for a broader copyright exemption for AI, rejecting the opt-out model."
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/google-openai-reject-copyright-plan-bnnzztts9
"More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites based on allegations of piracy. The backlash was immediate and massive. Internet users, free speech advocates, and tech companies flooded lawmakers with protests, culminating in an “Internet Blackout” on January 18, 2012. Turns out, Americans don’t like government-run internet blacklists. The bills were ultimately shelved.
Thirteen years later, as institutional memory fades and appetite for opposition wanes, members of Congress in both parties are ready to try this again.
The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA), along with at least one other bill still in draft form, would revive this reckless strategy. These new proposals would let rights holders get federal court orders forcing ISPs and DNS providers to block entire websites based on accusations of infringing copyright. Lawmakers claim they’re targeting “pirate” sites—but what they’re really doing is building an internet kill switch.
These bills are an unequivocal and serious threat to a free and open internet. EFF and our supporters are going to fight back against them."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever
Guy runs an experiment to see Just how easy is it to wrangle from GPT that which is very clearly someone else’s IP… Results are interesting, it’s not hard turns out. Some guardrails do exist for very recognizable characters, but that has not prevented LLMs from returning copyrighted IP on image prompts. Or from stealing studio-specific styles, characters and designs for memes - which has led to ‘Ghiblifying’ everything. #StudioGhibli #LLM #LLMs #Image #copyright #IP #AI #ChatGPT #ImagePrompts #AIImage #AIImages #legal
https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer
Freakier Friday
Megan 2.0
The Naked Gun (Liam Neeson edition)
Moana 2
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Shrek 5
Jurassic Park Rebirth
Final Destination Bloodlines
Superman (James Gunn edition)
Happy Gilmore 2
Lilo & Stitch (live action)
The Accountant 2
Karate Kid: Legends
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
Sicario 3
Nosferatu
Dracula
Groundhog Day 2
Ya see, Marty and Chris, the problem ain't Marvel, it's Hollywood.
Always has been.
Question to the network people out there:
Are there any ISPs that are IPv6 only (without providing a NAT/whatever)?
Background: Having an argument with a provider that hasn't published any AAAA records, and whilst I think that's poor form, I'm wondering if this would actually negatively affect any actual users in practice?
