Mastodawn

@steaphan @ehasbrouck @SuzyShearer @wbs_legal see, that's the difference because in #Germany the users if #copyrighted materials have to evidence that they properly licensed it, down to the point that #CollectingSocieties will demand #royalties unless the artist is evidently not a member nor covered indirectly by international agreements.

Sadly that also means that artists need to self-d0x with their "legal name" to publish stuff under more permissive licenses (i.e. @creativecommons ) and not have their licensors get rentseek'd by said "collecting societies".

So yeah not much better, just different...

Personally I'd love to start a radio station with non-#GEMA music only...

Walled Culture Apr 10, 2024

A French collecting society wants a tax on generative AI, payable to…collecting societies

Back in October last year, Walled Culture wrote about a proposed law in France that would see a tax imposed on AI companies, with the proceeds being paid to a collecting society. Now that the EU’s AI Act has been adopted, it is being invoked as another reason why just such a system should be set up. The French collecting society SPEDIDAM (which translates as […]

#aiAct #aiTax #collectingSocieties #eu #france #spedidam

https://walledculture.org/a-french-collecting-society-wants-a-tax-on-generative-ai-payable-tocollecting-societies/

Walled Culture Nov 30, 2023

Good artists copy, great artists steal – and generative AI does the marketing for both

The attacks on generative AI started out claiming that it was all about protecting the creators whose works were being “stolen” in some mysterious way by virtue of software analysing them. In some cases, that high-minded stance has already degenerated into yet another scheme to pay collecting societies even more for doing next to nothing. But beyond all this …

#advertising #beatles #beethoven #collectingSocieties #generativeAi #haydn #marketing #midjourney #mikeLoukides #mozart #photorealism #picasso #tSEliot #vermeer

https://walledculture.org/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal-and-generative-ai-does-the-marketing-for-both/

Walled Culture Apr 27, 2023

Another #CopyrightAbsurdity: UK Performing Right Society insists that every copyright is sacred. NO exceptions, not even when it's actually to @HelpMusicians - @glynmoody
#copyright #PRS #UK #CollectingSocieties
https://walledculture.org/uk-performing-right-society-insists-that-every-copyright-is-sacred-no-exceptions/

UK Performing Right Society insists that every copyright is sacred – no exceptions

<p>Most of the stories on this blog are about copyright absurdities, and the poor fit of an 18th-century legal framework for a 21st-century technology. But it’s important to remember that the copyright world is not just silly, but can be downright selfish. Here’s a great example of how copyright’s enforcers cannot imagine forgoing the tax …</p>

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Cory Doctorow Mar 22, 2023

#20yrsago How @slashdot girds its servers https://slashdot.org/~CmdrTaco/journal/27736

#15yrsago In the age of #ebooks, you don’t own your library https://gizmodo.com/amazon-kindle-and-sony-reader-locked-up-why-your-books-369235

#10yrsago NY judge says running a search engine for news is a copyright violation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/ap-v-meltwater-disappointing-ruling-news-search

#10yrsago Brazil’s music #CollectingSocieties convicted of forming an illegal cartel https://web.archive.org/web/20130321082647/http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/ecad-condenado-por-formacao-de-cartel-por-orgao-de-defesa-da-concorrencia-7897081

#10yrsago How to fix the worst law in technology https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/fixing-the-worst-law-in-technology

Bracing for Impact - Slashdot

I'm not going to address the morality of the war today. It's a huge topic, and a can of worms I simply can't open. What I would like to chat about is dealing with traffic spikes on a major website. that is an area I'm pretty familiar with.