The copyright infringement claim against a YouTuber who reviews retro gaming consoles disregards users’ rights by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Italian Tech- La Repubblica Continue reading “Who Owns Retrogames?”
Decoding the mind: neuroscience and generative AI are designing a new brain-machine interface
A conversation with Japanese neuroscientist Yu Takagi on the emerging boundaries between the human brain and generative artificial intelligence by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by MIT Technology Review Italia
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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AI (non-)copyright. A US ruling apparently sets the record straight, but negatively affects content-creators
Last August 18, 2023, a ruling of US District Court for the District of Columbia in the Civil Action No. 22-1564 (BAH) denied copyright protection to an image generated with an AI in execution of the input (‘prompt’) of the user. At a first glance the ruling looks correct, however it is questionable because there are are many examples of copyrighted non-AI- generated content made without human intervention. The main problem with this ruling, indeed, is that it looks at the matter from the (wrong) perspective of the ‘AI subjectivity’ rather than the economic value of the final product by Andrea Monti – initially published in Italian on Strategikon – an Italian Tech Blog Continue reading “AI (non-)copyright. A US ruling apparently sets the record straight, but negatively affects content-creators”
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”