To ‘combat deep fakes,’ Denmark is proposing a law to give people copyright over their physical features and voices. But this makes it easier to sell data and objectify individuals, and risks paralysing research by Andrea Monti Continue reading “Why it is wrong (and dangerous) to impose copyright on human beings”
The Coldplay kisscam case: why there is no privacy in open spaces
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy at public events; organisers can even acquire the rights to participants’ images and do (almost) whatever they want with them. However, social networks must remove content that violates the law, including photographs covered by copyright. This is demonstrated by another important case in the news recently: Gianni Minisichetti – Meta – Initially published in Italian by LaRepubblica-Italian Tech Continue reading “The Coldplay kisscam case: why there is no privacy in open spaces”
Why DeepSeek scares off (Western) AI giants
So far, the common perception has been that to play the AI game requires such huge investments and infrastructure that any attempt in this direction is discouraged. China has shown that this is not the case. And now it can also advance to the conquer ‘natural intelligences’ by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by La Repubblica – Italian Tech
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Webscraping and AI Datasets: if the purpose is in the public interest there is no copyright infringement
“The creation of a dataset … which can form the basis for the training of artificial intelligence systems, can certainly be considered scientific research … Although the creation of the dataset as such may not be immediately associated with an increase in knowledge, it constitutes an essential step for the goal of using it to subsequently acquire the knowledge in question ’ – by Andrea Monti – originally published in Strategikon – Italian Tech-La Repubblica
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Foreign Cloud must block copyright-infringing access
Domestic Courts have jurisdiction over copyright infringements committed through a foreign-based cloud. With its 4 November 4, 2022 ruling, the XIV Section of the Milan Tribunale delle imprese (Business Court) marks a significant point – although still only of merit – in the fight against online piracy – by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by IlSole24Ore Continue reading “Foreign Cloud must block copyright-infringing access”