When fascism is on the rise, billionaires are hoarding wealth, the planet is dying - but the sun touched your face for the first time after the Polar Night so you’re vibrating at frequency previously unknown to science. *plus the Northern Lights from last night.

Make It Fair. Don’t let AI steal our music

'MAGIC PUSSY' for coffee (whether virtual or actual one) is not a trade mark contrary to "accepted principles of morality". A sensible decision of the EUIPO 5th BoA, though a not-so-magic question remains: how helpful is actually Article 7(1)(f) EUTMR? ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/03/magic-…

Third Draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice published, written by independent experts. See digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/thi…

The 3rd draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice has now been published. This sets out the rules for the most advanced general-purpose AI models, in accordance with the classification criteria in Article 51 of the AI Act. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/thi…

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Dissertation by Dr Rachel Los not only includes acknowledgements, but also .. anti-acknowledgements. delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a-n…

New open access article: Intellectual property rights as private rights: Implications of the theory of internally limited rights and incentive theory for reconstructing the normative content of rights in intangible goods, by Konrad Gliściński onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jw…

Excellent point here by Paul Keller, the 3rd draft of the GPAI Code of Practice appears to equate web scraping with AI training and data mining. communia-association.org/2025/03/21/is-…

The Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA) now requires artists to declare if AI was used in the creation of a song. Songs involving AI will not be eligible for copyright registration and if AI use is falsely denied, KOMCA may suspend royalties or remove the work.

Pukulan telak disaat daya beli lokal melemah. Tarifnya ngeri. Ini akan berikan dampak fatal bagi ekonomi RI. Fyi 50% surplus non migas RI disumbang ekspor ke Amerika. Imagine dampaknya. Senin rupiah dan IHSG mungkin akan anjlok cukup dalam. Be ready for the worst.

The European Commission has started laying the groundwork for an upcoming code of practice for labelling AI-generated content, launching at least one study, notably on technical solutions for marking AI-generated audio. The process & timing are still tbc. mlex.com/mlex/articles/…

Excited to share my new piece '‘As you know, our (geo)blockade is perfectly legal’ - EU, the Geo-Blocking Regulation and the future of copyright law' for JIPLP ! Bonus: snuck in a Star Wars Easter egg. Just in time for Revenge of the Sith 20th anniv and May the 4th. Link below👇

Sampe sekarang gw masih ngerasa aneh bisa jadi bagian dari tim yang berhasil bikin Pasal Pencemaran Nama Baik di UU ITE jadi GA BISA DIPAKE sama Pemerintah dan Pejabat Ini pertama kalinya dalam sejarah MK ngabulin Judicial Review terhadap Pasal Pencemaran Nama Baik damnnnn😭😭😭

🚨BREAKING: A major nickel firm supplying EV battery makers—who supply car giants like Tesla, Toyota & BMW—has polluted Indonesian water sources for years with chromium-6, a toxic chemical, leaked documents reveal. 👇Read full findings thegeckoproject.org/articles/clean…

The culture of AI is nihilism. It’s that simple. It’s a rejection of the idea that economies are for human cultures, and a rejection of the idea that art is special because it involves a component of recognizing something subjectively shared between human beings.

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The US Copyright Office on AI 🔥🔥🔥 "Making commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially where this is accomplished through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries."

Ketika ruang politik tidak lagi bicara gagasan: Peta ideologi politik Indonesia sering disalahartikan seperti model Barat: kiri vs kanan, konservatif vs progresif. Padahal, spektrum politik itu terbentuk oleh sejarah; di Eropa, konflik antara proletariat dan borjuis (lihat