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Dua Lipa beats lawsuit claiming she copied the song Levitating from a 70s disco song
abc.net.au/news/2025-03-28/dua
#copyright #music #litigation

"A musical style, defined by plaintiffs as 'pop with a disco feel,' and a musical function, defined by plaintiffs to include 'entertainment and dancing'," cannot possibly be protectable," Justice Failla wrote.

To hold otherwise, she said, would "completely foreclose the further development of music in that genre or for that purpose."

From: blenderdumbass . org

A large majority of people confuse privacy with data protection. And lately I'm noticing an uproar of ideologies that claim to be pro-freedom in one way or another, but which threaten freedom as a whole. I think there is a certain copyright mentality to them. Certain misunderstanding of ownership which makes fighting for freed...

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blenderdumbass . orgThe Copyright Mentality

"GPT-4o is partly (aside from some licensed content) a product of a massive scrape of the Internet without regard to copyright or consent from artists ... GPT-4o's image generation model (and the technology behind it, once open source) feels like it further erodes trust in remotely produced media ... Everyone needs media literacy skills ..." arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ope via @arstechnica

Ars Technica · OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provokeBy Benj Edwards

« Le jour où le piratage a changé. »

> Ça ne date certainement pas d’aujourd’hui. C'était même il y a déjà un moment, mais je voulais qu’il soit écrit sur mon blog ce rappel qu’autrefois, il y a longtemps, le piratage était, ben, du vol.
>
> Maintenant tout a changé.

remysharp.com/2025/03/22/the-d (en anglais)

remysharp.comThe day piracy changedIt certainly wasn't today. It was some time ago, but I wanted to mark this in my blog as a reminder that once, long ago, piracy was, well, stealing. That's all…

🤖 AI & COPYRIGHT
🔴 Anthropic Scores Win in Music Lawsuit

🔸 Judge denies music publishers’ bid to block Anthropic from using song lyrics to train Claude.
🔸 Court says publishers failed to show “irreparable harm.”
🔸 UMG, Concord, ABKCO sued over use of lyrics from 500+ songs incl. Beyoncé & Rolling Stones.
🔸 Fair use remains key unresolved legal issue in AI training cases.

I HEREBY SHEW PROOF THAT I CAN PLAY "EASY MUSIC" AND SING N'AT, AND SIMULTANEOUSLY ANNOUNCE, NAY, DEMONSTRATE WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING TO THIS HYMN FOR, HEH, QUITE SOME TIME NOW! WHO KNOWS HOW LONG ITLL TAKE TO FINE TUNE!? TEN YEARS!? ELEVEN!?
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
youtu.be/5hxgi8hnRBk

Probably TMI but here's a draft flowchart of what goes through my brain when I'm considering whether to boost an image. Not included but of course important: (1) Is image made by a human? (2) Is there something in the body of the text that's mildly interesting? (3) Is account an actual person active on the platform? (4) Are number of hashtags in Goldilocks zone? #boosts #AltText #copyright #photography #accessibility #boosting #CreativeCommons

TorrentFreak: Meta’s BitTorrent Uploads of ‘Pirate Library’ Data Equaled 30% of Downloads, Expert Says. “A lawsuit filed by several authors against Meta centers on Meta’s alleged use of pirated books for AI training data and the technical details of BitTorrent which was used to obtain them. Yesterday, Meta filed a motion for summary judgment, while countering the authors’ request to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/26/torrentfreak-metas-bittorrent-uploads-of-pirate-library-data-equaled-30-of-downloads-expert-says/