“Where AI merely assists an author in the creative process, its use does not change the copyrightability of the output. At the other extreme, if content is entirely generated by AI, it cannot be protected by copyright.” – Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2, Copyrightability, USCO – Last week, the U.S. Copyright Office released Part 2 of a planned three-part ...
One story that trended (e.g., on BlueSky) about TikTok’s day of shutdown and revival can be summarized thus: the intent to ban TikTok was a stunt cooked up by Republicans so that Trump could pretend to save it at the last minute. Thus, it was never about national security but was yet another grab of another platform for hard-right ideologues—and ...
I recognize the psychological need to believe the American Republic will survive the coming four years, and I freely admit to being the biggest cynic in almost any room. But if the analogy is a shipwreck, we are already treading water with no ship or shore on the horizon. “Democracy lives in the people,” say the more hopeful pundits. Perhaps. ...
This week, the Supreme Court must decide whether to delay the ban of TikTok in the United States, which is scheduled to take effect on January 19. Signed into law last March, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act was designed to compel owner ByteDance to sell TikTok to a U.S. or other entity with no ties to ...
The announcement that Meta will stop fact-checking material on its platforms is neither surprising nor, at this point, relevant. Mark Zuckerberg’s absurd announcement that the company is “getting back to core principles,” or whatever bullshit way he said it, is no more appalling today than that same rhetoric has been for decades. None of this conduct is news or purely ...