Photographer’s 12-Year-Long Fight Over ‘Blackbeard’s Law’ Might Be Over https://petapixel.com/2026/01/29/photographers-12-year-long-fight-over-blackbeards-law-might-be-over/ #underwaterphotographer #blackbeardslaw #northcarolina #copyright #lawsuit #News #Law
copyright
Wixen files lawsuit against Meta over unlicensed music; piracy of Japanese content rises three-fold; photographer dismisses case against Drake.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/01/28/3-count-what-did-i-miss/
Here's my #introduction:
I live in The Netherlands, Europe. I work as a self-employed tech consultant & software developer. I like to tinker & have way too many interests :)
Likely to toot about:
#technology #techpolicy, #opensource #openstandards #opencontent #publicdomain #creativecommons #copyright #sustainability #diy #infosec #security #data #privacy #accessibility #ui #ux #interactiondesign #ethics #webdevelopment #devops #sysadmin #climatecrisis #food #music #linux #debian #ubuntu
I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚
“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of … copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️
See what’s free to read on January 1 👇
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Please boost 🙏
#StandardEbooks #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #Ebooks #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Python
Hey Washington, there's a profoundly bad law making its way through the state level.
This law, will require ALL 3d printers to send copies of the files you print directly to the government to be check against a database of "banned shapes".
Literally turning your 3d printer into spyware. And if you don't voluntarily turn your printer into a spy, you will be a class C Felon.
This law affects ALL CNC machines, not just 3dps.
Re-#introduction: recurring topics here.
#Wikimedia #Wikidata #Wikipedia #MediaWiki #OpenStreetMap #Wikimania #Wikisource #WikiCite #OpenRefine #wiki #Wiktionary #WikiLovesMonuments #Wikibase #Wikiquote
#i18n #L10n #translatewiki.net #Unicode #CLDR #languages
#Copyright #PublicDomain #PubblicoDominio #Copyleft #CreativeCommons #OpenData #UploadFilters #LicenzaLibera #DatiAperti
#InternetArchive #books #biblioteche #library #Koha #KohaILS #GLAM
#WikiTeam #digipres #ArchiveTeam #XSLT
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I am producing and directing an animated series called "Lunatics!" about the first permanent settlers on the Moon, which attempts to be as realistic about this as possible, drawing on present-day technology, and much of the organizational culture around it.
It's a *free-culture* project: CC By-SA 4.0 licensed for episodes and most behind-the-scenes content. And an open movie project in that source files from Blender, Kdenlive, etc will be released with episodes. For this to be truly meaningful, we also rely on *free/open-source* software to produce it.
There is a #Pixelfed for the project itself:
@lunatics
and of course, a website for the series:
https://lunatics.tv
and the project:
https://lunaticsproject.org
This is my "professional" account, so I focus on topics related to my project: #Animation #Film #ScienceFiction #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Copyright #Copyleft #Art #Blender #Kdenlive #CreativeCommons #FreeCulture #ShareAlike
I often post little progress reports and work-in-progress here.
I try to avoid partisan politics and other acrimonious subjects. Also trying to watch my language here, keeping it PG-13, let's say.
If you would like a less filtered version of me, I do have a personal #Hometown (basically #Mastodon but not quite) account as well:
@TerryHancock
NOTE: #Misskey allows a longer post length and also up to 16 images per post, which makes it a lot more convenient for my project posts. Buy you'll only see the first 4 images on Mastodon (there are 7 on this post, for example). There are subtle differences like this between #Fediverse platforms!
#Introduction
There's a new government of Canada official petition to bring the same rights to likeness that Denmark recently passed to protect people from their body or voice being used by AI without their consent.
If you're Canadian, sign and share!
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7002
#DigitalPrivacy #Privacy #AI #AIethics #CApoli #Canada #CopyrightLaw #Copyright
#AI allows a 6-year old to become a #copyright #pirate: https://www.knobbe.com/updates/sound-the-alarm-how-my-6-year-old-almost-became-a-copyright-pirate-overnight/
📖 🌎 Reusing your own #publication - are you allowed to? Our author Lea Sophie Singson gives researchers an overview of the rights and obligations regarding the re-use of publications and research data: from #preprints to sharing with colleagues to secondary publication. This is what German #copyright law says:
https://irights.info/artikel/reuse-own-publication/32679
What happens when copyright runs out? Anyone can commodify the work of a creator. @Dwell looks at efforts to protect the legacies of Henri Matisse and Frida Kahlo, and why it's so hard to copyright furniture. "To a large extent, a chair is a chair," explains lawyer David M. Adler.
Warum ich niemals KI nutzen würde, Sie es dennoch im Studium lernen sollten
Absolut sehenswerter Videoessay von Kevin Schumacher (KIT-Bibliothek, HoC-Schreiblabor): https://lnkd.in/dNy2C7gw
#ai #ki #llm #learning #teaching #sustainability #competence #technology #automatization #growth #bias #innovation #writing #cognitiveoffloading #illusionofcompetence #society #ethics #digitaledrecksarbeit #mentalhealth #copyright #unemployment #criticalthinking
AI rechten
En hoe het uitwerken van de laatste paragraaf ook voor ons nog een onverwacht wending kreeg!
https://www.geoarchief.nl/M00102
#AI #juridisch #rechten #copyright #PublicDomain #CC0 #generatief #generative #artificial #intelligence
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Okay yeah but hear me out
Not all enterprise-level domain models have to be for an enterprise
#UML #SoftwareEngineering #Modeling #DomainModeling #Programming #Books #ProjectGutenberg #Copyright
🗓️ It's #CopyrightHour! On 19 July, join our next #CopyrightOfficeHours session to discuss #OpenAccess, #copyright and ethics: the intersection between the lack of copyright limitations & ethical reuse, with peers & experts in the copyright community. https://bit.ly/40vkenz
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The enforcement of copyright law is really simple.
If you were a kid who used Napster in the early 2000s to download the latest album by The Offspring or Destiny's Child, because you couldn't afford the CD, then you need to go to court! And potentially face criminal sanctions or punitive damages to the RIAA for each song you download, because you're an evil pirate! You wouldn't steal a car! Creators must be paid!
If you created educational videos on YouTube in the 2010s, and featured a video or audio clip, then even if it's fair use, and even if it's used to make a legitimate point, you're getting demonetised. That's assuming your videos don't disappear or get shadow banned or your account isn't shut entirely. Oh, and good luck finding your way through YouTube's convoluted DMCA process! All creators are equal in deserving pay, but some are more equal than others!
And if you're a corporation with a market capitalisation of US$1.5 trillion (Google/Alphabet) or US$2.3 billion (Microsoft), then you can freely use everyone's intellectual property to train your generative AI bots. Suddenly creators don't deserve to be paid a cent.
Apparently, an individual downloading a single file is like stealing a car. But a trillion-dollar corporation stealing every car is just good business.
@music@fedibb.ml @technology #technology #tech #economics #copyright #ArtificialIntelligence #capitalism #IntellectualProperty @music@lemmy.ml #law #legal #economics
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Our copyright section includes anything and everything related to #Copyright and #DigitalHeritage: tools and resources, webinars, useful information and the latest updates in the sector. Browse through the page! ➡️
https://bit.ly/3oYhEaF
#copyright: Implications from C-401/19 for National Transpositions in the Light of Freedom of Expression