Stanford Law School: Who counts as an inventor?. “New research, undertaken by an interdisciplinary team of Stanford Law and Stanford Medicine students, looks at the overlap between biomedical research paper authors and those authors who go on to be named inventors of their research on patents. Among the findings is a gender discrepancy between male and female authors, with male authors receiving patents more frequently. The team created a comprehensive patent-to-publication citation map that includes 430,000 biomedical inventor-research teams.”
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Here Comes the AI: Fans rejoice in ‘new’ Beatles music (AFP)
AFP: Here Comes the AI: Fans rejoice in ‘new’ Beatles music . “When the Beatles broke up more than 50 years ago, devastated fans were left yearning for more. Now, artificial intelligence is offering just that. From ‘re-uniting’ the Fab Four on songs from their solo careers, to re-imagining surviving superstar Paul McCartney’s later works with his voice restored to its youthful peak, the new creations show off how far this technology has come—and raise a host of ethical and legal questions.”
Techdirt: The Supreme Court May Not Have Read Our Brief About The First Amendment And Copyright, But You Can
Techdirt: The Supreme Court May Not Have Read Our Brief About The First Amendment And Copyright, But You Can . “Technically we’ve posted this analysis before, when we posted our entire amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court in the Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith case, along with a summary of what we had written in it. But that summary also included other arguments, and a very condensed version of this one, that the First Amendment requires copyright law to be interpreted in a way that doesn’t harm future free expression. It is an idea important enough to be worth more attention – especially given that it seems the Supreme Court itself overlooked it.”
TorrentFreak: Iconic Torrent Site RARBG Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop
TorrentFreak: Iconic Torrent Site RARBG Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop. “RARBG, one of the world’s largest torrent sites, has said ‘farewell’ to millions of users. The site, which was a prominent and stable source of new movie and TV show releases, cited a variety of reasons behind its decision to cease operations. The surprise shutdown marks the end of an era.”
University of Arizona: UArizona researcher at the forefront of Indigenous data sovereignty
University of Arizona: UArizona researcher at the forefront of Indigenous data sovereignty. “The concept known as IDSov emphasizes Indigenous Peoples’ right to control data about their people, lands and cultures. Stephanie Russo Carroll, associate director of the University of Arizona Native Nations Institute, has focused her career on encouraging institutions to adopt policies and practices that recognize that right.”
Reuters: US jury says Google owes Sonos $32.5 million in smart-speaker patent case
Reuters: US jury says Google owes Sonos $32.5 million in smart-speaker patent case. “Alphabet Inc’s Google must pay $32.5 million in damages for infringing one of smart-speaker maker Sonos Inc’s patents in its wireless audio devices, a San Francisco federal jury decided on Friday.”
Keen Gamer: The Art Of Abandonware Preservation
Keen Gamer: The Art Of Abandonware Preservation. “Despite video gaming’s relative youth compared to other media, many games have already been lost to time. Around the world, archivists have been striving to record and preserve such abandonware and return it to the players. We spoke with some of the people involved to find out just what it takes to save a lost game and why such archives are so important.”
Mashable: Piracy-loving Twitter Blue users exploit new 2-hour video limit
Mashable: Piracy-loving Twitter Blue users exploit new 2-hour video limit. “Twitter users have long been able to upload short, minutes-long videos. But, since Musk came along and acquired Twitter, longform has become a priority on a platform where shortform content reigns supreme. Twitter users that subscribe to Twitter Blue for $8 per month can now write tweets 10,000 characters long, far beyond that of the normal 280 character limit. And, as of Thursday, Twitter Blue subscribers can now upload long videos too. How long? two hours-long.”
Berkeley News: Generative AI meets copyright law
Berkeley News: Generative AI meets copyright law. “On Wednesday, April 26, Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, delivered the final of four Distinguished Lectures on the Status and Future of AI, co-hosted by CITRIS Research Exchange and the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Group (BAIR). Samuelson’s talk explores a particularly controversial topic in the legal community: whether the texts and images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) should be protected under copyright law.”
PC Mag: Why Google’s New ChatGPT-Style Search Could Kill the Websites That Feed It
PC Mag: Why Google’s New ChatGPT-Style Search Could Kill the Websites That Feed It. “Google’s new AI search experience pushes links to articles below the digital fold, summarizing the response to a search query up top as a conversational, ChatGPT-style paragraph. Content in the answer, a mini-article in itself, can theoretically come from PCMag and a host of other publications.” More than theoretically. OpenAI’s trained on millions of Web sites, including mine. 25+ years of work and expertise and they just took it. Will I ever get paid? Of course not. Because I’m just one person and they don’t care.
Reuters: Google wins US patent trial over data-retrieval technology
Reuters: Google wins US patent trial over data-retrieval technology. “Alphabet’s Google LLC won a jury trial on Tuesday in a long-running patent lawsuit in Delaware federal court over features in Google’s smartphones and apps. The jury decided that Luxembourg-based patent owner Arendi SARL’s patent was invalid and that Google did not infringe it, according to the verdict made public on Wednesday.”
The Guardian: Google calls for relaxing of Australia’s copyright laws so AI can mine websites for information
The Guardian: Google calls for relaxing of Australia’s copyright laws so AI can mine websites for information. “Google and other tech giants have called on the Australian government to relax copyright laws to allow artificial intelligence to mine websites for information across the internet.”
The Verge: AI Drake just set an impossible legal trap for Google
The Verge: AI Drake just set an impossible legal trap for Google. “The AI Drake track that mysteriously went viral over the weekend is the start of a problem that will upend Google in one way or another — and it’s really not clear which way it will go.”
Reuters: Google wins appeal of $20 million US patent verdict over Chrome technology
Reuters: Google wins appeal of $20 million US patent verdict over Chrome technology. “Alphabet’s Google LLC on Tuesday convinced a U.S. appeals court to cancel three anti-malware patents at the heart of a Texas jury’s $20 million infringement verdict against the company.”
Internet Archive Blog: Law Professor Makes Digital Copyright Book Open for All
Internet Archive Blog: Law Professor Makes Digital Copyright Book Open for All. “Geared for a general audience, the book chronicles how copyright laws were drafted, written, lobbied and enacted in Congress over time. Litman researched the legislative history of copyright law, including development of the 1976 Copyright Act, and spent two years in Washington, D.C., observing Congress leading up to the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998.”