This reminds me of the time when a client tried to get me to design a logo that was similar to another company's logo and I refused. Situations like this are why I didn’t. #retiredgraphicdesigner #copyright #intellectualproperty (📷: WTHR)
This reminds me of the time when a client tried to get me to design a logo that was similar to another company's logo and I refused. Situations like this are why I didn’t. #retiredgraphicdesigner #copyright #intellectualproperty (📷: WTHR)
The Map Room: Unauthorized Waffle House Index Disaster Maps Taken Down. “The Waffle House Index is an informal metric used to assess the severity of a storm in the U.S. South, because Waffle House restaurants don’t close unless Things Are Very Bad. But when Jack LaFond scraped Waffle House’s website to build a map tracking restaurant closures last fall, he got a cease-and-desist from […]
Anime Corner: Piracy: Japanese ‘Detailed Spoilers’ Website Referred to Prosecutors Over Copyright Infringement. “A company operating a website that provided detailed spoilers and images of films has been referred to the Sendai District Public Prosecutors Office on suspicion of violating the Copyright Act. Five men and women, including the company manager, were also referred; the Miyagi […]
@cstross 100% off-topic, but when I was working in a pharma company back in my home country, people told me how when in 1990, the socialist economic system was switched to capitalism and the government became democratic, there were multiple processes that had to be re-engineered because they were a 100% copy of western patents, and later they had to prove that they don't use that old process anymore in court to be allowed to sell in western countries.
If your business model is based on stealing other people's work and intellectual property, perhaps you should consider whether that business model shouldn't be explicitly banned, instead of changing the laws and legalizing the bad things to make a few tech bros who want to destroy our society even richer and more powerful.
#AI #KI #IP #llm #NYTimes #society #IntellectualProperty
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/nick-clegg-work-train-ai-l6xl5djb7