#intellectualproperty — Public Fediverse posts

ABC News: White House launches Arcade.gov with computer game that lets players ‘deport’ migrants. “The White House announced the launch of what it called “Arcade.gov,” a website of five versions of classic computer games promoting the president’s agenda. The games include ‘Flappy Bill,’ ‘Build the Wall,’ ‘Rio Run,’ ‘Supply Line’ and ‘Trump Savings Tycoon.’ One of the games, ‘Rio Run,’ a […]

TechCrunch: Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now. “The story of the Virginia-based startup isn’t really about building something unique; it’s about a company trying to get its hands on abandoned trademarks that X relinquished. Even the homepage for the company clearly states its purpose is to go back and pick up what Elon Musk dropped when he renamed […]

‘Attribution decay’ complicates the picture of AI-generated images, scientists find – The Art Newspaper

Art generated with artificial intelligence (AI) relies on models trained on billions of images. That training has been…
#NewsBeep #News #Technology #Art&Technology #Artificialintelligence #CA #Canada #Intellectualproperty
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/883519/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/672694/ CAFC Finds Most Patent Owner Arguments Forfeited in Vitamin D Baby Drops Appeal from PTAB #CAFC #Éire #FederalCircuit #Health #IE #IntellectualProperty #Ireland #Nutrition #patent #PatentLitigation #PatentTrialAndAppealBoard #Patentability #PatentabilityRequirements #PTAB #USPTO

PBS News Hour: Descendants of enslaved potter David Drake work to reclaim ancestor’s art. “The descendants David Drake, known as Dave the Potter, have traced their lineage back to the once-enslaved potter and launched an effort to reclaim his work. So far, the family has recovered six pieces of Drake’s highly valued glazed stoneware, and they’re working with museums to bring even more back into […]

Nicola Coughlan and Matt Lucas among stars backing campaign against AI voice cloning https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/28/stars-back-campaign-against-ai-voice-cloning-nicola-coughlan-matt-lucas #AiArtificialIntelligence #NicolaCoughlan #Film #Technology #HughBonneville #MattLucas #WorldNews #Culture #Television #TelevisionRadio #AndyBurnham #Politics #Law #IntellectualProperty #Computing #UkNews

The Biggest Theft In History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5whcBQ5xVI

#history #andrewism #philosophy #ethics #property #slavery #enclosure #anarchy #colonialism #anarchist #capitalism #monopoly #anarchism #Proudhon #intellectualproperty #socialcontract

The people most likely to have their work stolen are the least likely to have the resources to stop it. Systems, institutions, and policies do not produce outcomes this reliably skewed by accident.

#KimCrayton #LBTSM #LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth #ProfitWithoutOppression #CreatorEconomy #IntellectualProperty #Trademark #Copyright #SystemicInequality

Deadline: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is X’s Latest Bootleg Leak, Gets Millions Of Views Before Taken Down. “As Tom Holland’s summer blockbusters take over the big screen, X has spoiled yet another one of the actor’s theatrical releases. Following the leak of a high-quality bootleg of The Odyssey on X last week, Spider-Man: Brand New Day was leaked Friday morning on the Elon […]

#Apple on Friday filed a lawsuit against #OpenAI & 2 former employees, alleging misappropriation of the iPhone maker's #TradeSecrets to benefit the #ChatGPT owner's ​foray into consumer #hardware.

The complaint…alleges a coordinated effort to steal Apple's confidential information, including #product #designs, #manufacturing processes & #SupplyChain strategies.

#law #tech #CorporateEspionage #IntellectualProperty
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/apple-sues-openai-alleging-misappropriation-trade-secrets-court-records-show-2026-07-10/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Mashable: Midjourney pushes to expose studios’ own AI practices in copyright fight. “Midjourney is attempting to turn the tables on the Hollywood studios suing it for copyright infringement, asking a federal judge to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery to disclose their internal use of artificial intelligence, according to a Variety report published this week.”

Yes, this is theft.

The good news (for artists) is that the liability can’t be washed away by running it through a software tool (a separate issue), and the artist can sue the person who published this.

Don’t be the person that publishes another’s work without authorization, not only because it’s a violation of the rights of the artist, and a breach of law, but because it’s wrong.

https://open.substack.com/pub/deadder/p/this-is-outright-stealing?r=2m1hl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#Copyright #Law #IntellectualProperty #CopyrightInfringement #AIIsTheft

Am I the only one who uses CC0 in vibe-coded Git repo(s)?

#CC0 #VibeCoding #GitHub #OpenSource #IntellectualProperty #AI #Coding #ITStudent #TechEthics #DigitalSovereignty #SoftwareDevelopment #Licensing #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain #Innovation #Programming #Git #FutureOfTech #Sabah #Malaysia

Engadget: Metadata company Gracenote is the latest to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement . “Axios reports that Gracenote is suing OpenAI for the unauthorized and unpaid use of both its metadata and its framework for connecting that information.”

TorrentFreak: Major Publishers Sue Anna’s Archive Over ‘Staggering’ Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction. “A coalition of thirteen major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, filed a new lawsuit against Anna’s Archive. The publishers allege the shadow library is facilitating “staggering” levels of piracy. While the site’s owners are not likely to […]

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/21/microsoft-pulls-ai-blog-pirated-harry-potter-books-xcxwbn/

Microsoft Pulls AI Tutorial For AI Training with Pirated Harry Potter Books

#AI #Microsoft #BigTech #Copyright #CopyrightInfringement #Piracy #IntellectualProperty #CopyrightLiability #AITraining #AIModels #HarryPotter #HarperCollins #Kaggle

🚀 Introducing G-SIGN – IP, one of the #NGISargassoInnovators!

G-SIGN – IP, or Global Smart InterGovernment Network for Secure Data Exchange, is a pilot initiative using #blockchain and #AI to enable secure, decentralised authentication, authorisation, and data sharing for #IntellectualProperty services between Turkey and the United States.

💡 Discover more solutions shaping a human-centric #NextGenerationInternet: https://ngisargasso.eu/2025/02/28/discover-the-last-13-ngi-sargasso-innovators-from-our-open-call-5-creating-an-internet-of-humans-across-continents/

#IP #NGISargasso #NGI #InternetOfHumans #InternetOfTrust

Reacted like someone with zero critical faculty, #GitHub 👏🏻

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #noAI #genAI #generativeAI #promptEngineering #vibeCoding #LLM #ChatBots #aiChatBot #enshittification #ensh11n #gaslighting #DeceptivePatterns #darkPatterns #automaticOptIn #trainingLLMsIsTheft #HumansBeforeProfit #corporateGreed #predatoryCapitalism #chokepointCapitalism #intellectualProperty

Reuters: Musk’s xAI sues engineer for allegedly taking secrets to OpenAI. “Musk’s company said in the complaint, opens new tab filed on Thursday in California federal court that Xuechen Li stole confidential information related to ‘cutting-edge AI technologies with features superior to those offered by ChatGPT’ to bring to his new job at OpenAI earlier this month.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/01/reuters-musks-xai-sues-engineer-for-allegedly-taking-secrets-to-openai/

#GenerativeAI #AI #PlagerismMachine #AIisTheft #copyright #intellectualproperty

TorrentFreak: Belgium Targets Internet Archive’s ‘Open Library’ in Sweeping Site Blocking Order (Update). “The Business Court in Brussels, Belgium, has issued a broad site-blocking order that aims to restrict access to shadow libraries including Anna’s Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive’s Open Library. In addition to ISP blocks, the order also directs search […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/03/torrentfreak-belgium-targets-internet-archives-open-library-in-sweeping-site-blocking-order-update/

Kotaku: YouTuber Threatened With Jail Time For Reviewing Retro Gaming Handhelds. “As reported by Android Authority, Italian YouTuber Francesco Salicini, aka Once Were Nerd, claims in a video uploaded on July 14 that the Guardia di Finanza—an Italian militarized police force that focuses on economic and financial crimes—raided his home and took around 30 consoles, including retro emulator […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/20/kotaku-youtuber-threatened-with-jail-time-for-reviewing-retro-gaming-handhelds/

Trade Secrecy in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory (2009)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1430463

#HackerNews #TradeSecrecy #WillyWonka #ChocolateFactory #2009 #IntellectualProperty #FoodIndustry

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #113: Trap Streets and Paper Streets.
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#trapstreet #paperstreet #maps #cartography #copyright #copyrightviolation #theft #intellectualproperty #intellectualpropertytheft #fightclub #didyouknow #trivia #facts #funfacts #bizarrefacts #wtf #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Univerza v Ljubljani in ZRC SAZU v sklopu projekta #SPOZNAJ jutri, 11. 2. 2025, organizirata Posvetovanje o avtorskopravnih vidikih rezultatov raziskav, ki bo potekalo v Atriju ZRC SAZU. Ogled dogodka bo mogoč tako v živo kot na daljavo.
Gosta dogodka bosta dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič in @hook
Več informacij o vsebini in prijava na dogodek: https://odprtaznanost.si/obvestila/posvetovanje-o-avtorskopravnih-vidikih-rezultatov-raziskav/

#openscience #intellectualproperty #scicomm

OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/01/openai-failed-to-deliver-the-opt-out-tool-it-promised-by-2025/

#openai #genai #chatgpt #gpt #copyright #intellectualproperty #intellectualpropertytheft #brokenpromises

In 2011, Arıkan started his own small company and took polar codes to Qualcomm and Seagate to see if they had interest in implementing the idea.

“I did prepare some slides and sent them, but none of the US companies were really interested in it,” he says.

He takes the blame for failing to ignite their interest. “I was an academic who did not know how to promote an idea. Perhaps I did not believe in the idea that strongly myself.”

Later, those companies did work on polar codes and got their own patents, but without the same vigor as Huawei.

“If it weren't for the persistent efforts of Huawei researchers,” Arıkan says, “polar codes would not be in 5G today.”

I asked him about the over-the-top Huawei ceremony immortalized in that YouTube video.
He told me that he'd received the invitation to visit in June 2018.
“I said, ‘What is the occasion?’
And they said, ‘Mr. Ren wants to give you an award,’” Arıkan recalls.

“I figured that Huawei is very happy because the standard has been made, and polar coding is definitely in it.”

He thought he would show up and there would be a pleasant conversation with the founder and some engineers. He might leave with a plaque.

Arıkan arrived in Shenzhen and stayed at a guest house on campus.
He had tea with Ren and was toasted by executives, including Wen Tong.
But he sensed that something bigger was afoot.

“They revealed the program to me one step at a time. I didn't know how big that room would be, what kind of building we would go into. They didn't tell me to dress nicely.” (He did anyway.)

An hour before the ceremony his hosts informed him that perhaps he should prepare a speech.
He hurriedly finished his remarks in the town car on the way to the ceremony.

“I have spent the last 30 years at Bilkent University doing research on a variety of problems that culminated in polar codes,” he told the crowd in his halting English.

“Today our roads cross on a happy occasion.”

The spectacle didn't go to Arıkan's head. “They were not honoring me,” he told me as we sat in his office.

“Huawei was saying, ‘We didn't steal this idea from anybody, and here is the originator of the idea.’

There is no question that Huawei is the most technologically sophisticated company in China.

Maybe for the first time in a thousand years, China is showing they are competing head to head with the rest of the world in technology.

The US could live with intellectual property theft, but it is much harder to live with being in competition with an equal power.

“Polar codes itself is not what's important,” he continued. “It is a symbol.

5G is totally different than the internet. It's like a global nervous system.

Huawei is the leading company in 5G. They will be around in 10, 20, 50 years
—you cannot say that about the US tech companies.

In the internet era, the US produced a few trillion-dollar companies.

Because of 5G, China will have 10 or more trillion-dollar companies.

Huawei and China now have the lead.”

US companies and the US government can no longer expect to beat China back with threats or indictments, even if they are sometimes warranted.

And it's not just telecom companies like Huawei.

For all the furor at the highest levels over whether the teen-oriented social app TikTok presented security issues, the real threat to American business was that its Chinese engineers had devised an AI-powered recommendation engine that Silicon Valley had not matched.

Arıkan says the experience has led him to respect Huawei
—and to provide a warning to the country where he learned information theory.

“I owe a lot to the US,” he says.
“I give you friendly advice:
You have to accept this as the new reality and deal with it accordingly.”

To paraphrase Shannon:
No one knows the future. But Huawei and China now have a hand in controlling it.

-- excerpts from:
https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/

by Steven Levy, editor at large at Wired.

Steven has written seven books, including Hackers, Crypto, Artificial Life, Insanely Great (a history of the Macintosh), and, most recently, In the Plex, the definitive story of Google. He attended Temple University and has a master’s degree in literature from Penn State.

#ErdalArıkan #5G #polarcodes
#RenZhengfei #Huawei #ChineseGovernment #ZTE #DOJ #intellectualproperty #Cisco #Nortel
#stevenlevy #Wired

@TSAguilar46 @ben 😎 Reset & reboot ChatGPT, cleared of all illegally acquired copyrighted contents & all intellectual property it evidently isn't artificially intelligent enough to develop all by itself.
Else it's just a programmed unlawful failure, merely a virtual burglar's tool.

#IntellectualPropertyTheft #OpenAI #ChatGPT #ArtificialTheftIntelligence #Copyrights #Plagiarism #IntellectualProperty #CopyrightsInfringement #OpenAIMusk

@raymondpert Musk-co-funded OpenAI doesn't want to discuss risks/threats of Artificial Intelligence???

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #IntellectualPropertyTheft #IntellectualProperty #Copyrights #HumanIntelligence #HumanJobs #HumanSenses #ArtificialNonsense

I’m going to guess CCP will leapfrog its capabilities in battery and electric vehicle manufacturing after this. Have we learned nothing? I guess money talks.

#intellectualproperty #corporateespionage

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-09/tesla-to-build-megapack-battery-factory-in-shanghai-xinhua

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4 ‘emerging narratives’ in crypto to watch for: Trading firm - The crypto trading firm sees NFTs becoming more intertwined with ... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/4-emerging-narratives-in-crypto-to-watch-for-trading-firm #intellectualproperty #stevengoulden #treasurybills #tokenization #reserveasset #cumberland #braintrust #hivemapper #starbucks #teleport #polygon #swoosh #helium #render #nike #art

4 ‘emerging narratives’ in crypto to watch for: Trading firm

https://cointelegraph.com/news/4-emerging-narratives-in-crypto-to-watch-for-trading-firm

#IntellectualProperty #StevenGoulden #TreasuryBills #Tokenization #ReserveAsset #Cumberland #Braintrust #Hivemapper #Starbucks #Teleport #Polygon #Swoosh #Helium #Render #Nike #Art

Hip Hop Samples Jazz: Dynamics of Cultural Memo y and Musical Tradition in the African American 1990s

The critical attempt to historicize hip hop dates at least to David Toop’s 1984 "Rap Attack: African Griots to New York Jive", a book written with journalistic immediacy and yet, as its subtitle suggests, one that situates rap reportage in the black musical "longue durée" but it wasn’t until the mid- 1990s that efforts toward an academic hip hop scholarship began in earnest, and it was then that ideas about the music’s methods and meanings as rooted in the black musical past became common currency. This view wasn’t surprising: a neat and untroubled line could be traced from the classic African American toasts to rap, and the use of digital sampling, whereby hip hop producers constructed their work from (black) music’s recorded back catalog, was equally suggestive for historically minded observers. This sampling practice, and its “historical” interpretation, form the central subject of this article.
Certainly, hip hop’s early scholars differed in their reasoning as to what the form’s use of old records meant for black music and history. Some positioned the practice as part of a linear, cultural-national tradition, sometimes shaded with essentialism. William Eric Perkins claimed, with totalizing confidence, that “sampling was and is hip hop’s ongoing link with history and tradition, including all of the African and African American musical genres.” a more modulated Kyra D. Gaunt contended that hip hop’s sampling was “the perfect medium for expressing the temporal culture-scape of who we are, and how we became, across time.”

https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.29.3.0277

#hiphop #jazz #culturalmemory #musicaltradition #africanamerican #1990s #sampling #musichistory #blackculture #hiphopscholarship #digital sampling #toasts #africanamericanmusic #essentially #temporalculture #constructivisttheorizations #vernaculars #politics #postmodernism #rhythmandblues #funk #rapmusic #samplingdebates #recordproduction #hiphopculture #musicindustry #copyrightlaw #publicdomain #intellectualproperty #musicappropriation #musicalintertextuality #remixculture #blackpopularculture