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Stephen Thaler’s Legendary AI Copyright Losing Streak Ends With Nowhere Left To Appeal
We’ve been covering Stephen Thaler’s quixotic quest to get copyright (and patent) protection for works generated entirely by his AI system “DABUS” for years now. If there’s one thing Thaler has proved...
FTC Admits Age Verification Violates Children’s Privacy Law, Decides To Just Ignore That
We’ve been pointing out the fundamental contradiction at the heart of mandatory age verification laws for years now. To verify someone’s age online, you have to collect personal data from them. If tha...
Copyright Kills Competition
Copyright owners increasingly claim more draconian copyright law and policy will fight back against big tech companies. In reality, copyright gives the most powerful companies even more control over c...
The Policy Risk Of Closing Off New Paths To Value Too Early
Artificial intelligence promises to change not just how Americans work, but how societies decide which kinds of work are worthwhile in the first place. When technological change outpaces social judgme...
How To Think About AI: Is It The Tool, Or Are You?
We live in a stupidly polarizing world where nuance is apparently not allowed. Everyone wants you to be for or against something—and nowhere is this more exhausting than with AI. There are those who i...
Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons
Here’s what’s strange about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that made the open internet possible: Both sides of the traditional political spectrum hate it. But for opposite reas...
Techdirt Podcast Episode 442: Does AI Remove Or Provide User Agency?
Support us on Patreon » On a recent episode of our other podcast, Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Mike was joined by guest host Konstantinos Komaitis for a far-reaching discussion about online speech. One point that...
Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation For Propaganda
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who a...
Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair Use
Long before generative AI, copyright holders warned that new technologies for reading and analyzing information would destroy creativity. Internet search engines, they argued, were infringement machin...