I mean, fair is fair. You don't just nilly-willy port #Valve's assets or any other developer's IP, for that matter, without licensing. It's problematic not only for the violator, but for originator down the line, as well. Such is the case with #TeamFortress2, and same with privately made gizmos from #Nintendo.
Whether some proprietary things were made in good faith or not is irrelevant, because, from standpoint of business, both this and depending project end up in association of some sort (unlike endorsement where both sides support each other on "paper").
> some amateur devs might start thinking twice before they start their next Half-Life fan project
...is but a consequence of dev understanding that their fan game won't make it to the finish line where it can proudly stay storefront and let Valve rest in comfort, knowing that it's linked to decent use of assets and not yet another wasteland.
I own the #copyright for the lectures I give to college students, but for some reason the #FBI has not yet contacted me with offers to prosecute anyone recording all or portions of my lectures without my written permission. I'm seriously considering putting an FBI warning at the beginning of every lecture. I think it might start good conversations about whose interests the cops choose to protect in American society.
Never enter any information that would qualify as a trade secret into an AI chat bot, regardless of what the terms of service of the chat bot provides.
Wikipedia notes that a rough English translation of the album name is; Watch out! The tram is coming. In other trivia, indie nerds who specialise in the 1990s might notice that the band name is taken from a song title off Now I'm a Cowboy, by British band The Auteurs.
"From my part, I believe the very concept of exclusive intellectual property with respect to recorded music has come to a natural end, or something like an end. Technology has brought to a head a need to embrace the meaning of the word “release”, as in bird or fart. It is no longer possible to maintain control over digitised material and I don’t believe the public good is served by trying to."
After making billions in #TaxDeductible donations to his philanthropy, the owner of #Tesla & SpaceX gave away far less than required in some yrs— & what he did give often supported his #SelfInterests.
Before Mar 2021, #ElonMusk’s charitable foundation never announced any donations to CameronCounty, an impoverished region at the southern tip of TX that is home to his #SpaceX launch site & local ofcls who help regulate it.
“Kindness & eagerness to learn (& parents that worked at #SpaceX) were the only criteria for admission,” wrote Joshua Dahn, the initial head of the school.
#AdAstra later moved to SpaceX’s Hawthorne, CA, headquarters & grew to >50 students. About ½ were related to SpaceX employees, Dahn said in an email. Dahn’s contract even said that the #IntellectualProperty he developed at the school would be ½ owned by #ElonMusk personally….
It's for "corporations and research organizations". Does that include #universities? Not clear. The focus is not on sharing research to make it more useful, but on creating "brand IP assets".
There seem to be two different ways of understanding the collapse of #TheBodyShop into administration (not just in the UK) only a couple of months after a #privateequity deal to 'save' the #business.
It could be a startlingly lack of due diligence & PE hubris, which has led to an emergency action to stem losses.... or:
(perhaps more likely) its a a raid on the residual #IntellectualProperty at the heart of the business; essentially a virtual asset stripping.
Could it be that the#AI firms they included in the consultation process did not want to see their theft of creative material constrained, and despite the concerns of #artists, the AI firms had a louder voice (or paid the #Tories more)?
Another #business the Tories don't understand or care to protect/help.
« #AaronSwartz planned to publish millions of scientific articles, financed by public money and on which the authors received nothing. Prosecuted before he had published anything, he risked 35 years in prison. Facing this prospect, he committed suicide on 11 January 2013. 11 years ago.
In 2024, #OpenAI will apply its algorithms to any document, online or offline, without the consent of the authors. No one is likely to be prosecuted.
“It is much more difficult to have serious discussions of alternative systems if we work under the illusion that government-granted patent monopolies are somehow the free market.“ @DeanBaker13
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YouTube's systems are confused. Steamboat Willie entered public domain today (Mickey Mouse's first appearance). I uploaded it to my YouTube, and YouTube systems are still drunk from last night. Fun with copyright disputes!
it is with great sadness that I have learnt that my co-author Professor Susan Sell has died unexpectedly.
Susan and I worked together on an historical project about #IntellectualProperty rights which became a journal article for RIPE & a well-cited book for Lynne Rienner Pub.
I met Susan when I was a mature PhD student and worked on this project with her on & off for many years.
She was an outstanding scholar & I'm sure will be greatly missed by colleagues & family (who are in my thoughts)
First, some background. In the the United States, we use the term #IntellectualProperty (IP) as a collective noun to describe a variety of discrete areas of law, including:
Patents
Copyrights
Trademarks
All of these regimes have different governing statutes, different rules, different case law.
(There is some overlap & some cross-pollination, however, which is why I advise students who are interested in any one of these areas to study all three of them.)
OK, so Dropbox is sending user files to an third party AI system.
That resurrects some questions that I've had for a long time:
Does use of external data services, such as Dropbox, Gmail, etc, for unencrypted files risk losing or damaging patents (due to pre-issuance disclosure), trade secrets, legal privileges, medical privacy, or any other situation in which there are obligations to protect materials from disclosure?
Consider how angry a university or company could be if Dropbox caused a patent application (or issued patent) to become invalid because of improper external disclosure?
By-the-way, when I refer to encryption, I mean encryption under the control of the user/data owner so that the provider (e.g. Dropbox, Gmail) can not see anything but encrypted bits - and even that may leave sensitive source/destination information in the clear.
This isn't a security fail, it's a #capitalism fail, because the social/legal regime of #intellectualproperty is actually unnecessary and oppressive, and in this case prevented people from designing secure systems.
There's a website (https://songswave.com) that might have stolen your #music and plan to make money off it without your permission!
I've just found my album "Enjoy the Ride" on there being sold for €4.26.
If your music is on there, you can send them an email at the contacts they've listed on https://songswave.com/pages/view/id/2/ requesting they remove it.