Very interesting piece. The chances that it is another bubble are high. It's currently surviving on a lot of wishful thinking and hypothetical. This really feels like borrowed time... I wonder what useful will remain once it all collapses. Coding assistants are very likely to survive. Clearly there could be interesting uses in a more sober approach.
This is a nice ruling about GPL violation in France. Gives some more weight to the GPL.
This is an interesting move, we'll see if this certification gets any traction.
The tooling to protect against the copyright theft of image generator models training is making progress. This will clearly turn into an arm race.
How does it feel to just want to put something creative out there without being exploited? Very touching comic on the topic.
It was only a question of time until we'd see such lawsuits appear. We'll see where this one goes.
Once more, an excellent piece from Cory Doctorow. Allowing DRM encumbered devices could only lead to the mess we're seeing nowadays.
If you can't download it without DRMs you just don't own it, you're renting it. This is completely different.
A glimpse into how those generator models can present a real copyright problem... there should be more transparency on the training data sets.
This is clearly an uphill battle. And yes, this is because it's broken by design, it should be opt-in and not opt-out.
After the backlash about WEI on Chrome, now they're going for something similar but scoped only for medias. At least now things are clear that it was mainly about pushing for DRMs to serve media producers.
A very needed tool unfortunately. This is fascinating research as well. The world is really so cyberpunk now.
Looks like it was a very interesting talk. Situation still needs to be monitored in any case, it's uncertain how those cases will be ruled.
Are we surprised? Not at all...
Interesting analysis around the current situation around web scraping and intellectual property. This moved to being mostly dealt with using contract law which makes it a terrible minefield. Lots of hypocrisy all around too which doesn't help. GPT and the likes will likely be the next area where cases will rise.
It'll be interesting to see where this complaint goes.
Basically the wording allows them to feed whatever system they want with your code... even in private repositories.
This is looking like a bad move. Clearly the fault of western countries though which let things unfold ambiguously regarding copyright... Now Japan is weakening copyright for everyone.
The copyright problem in all this is becoming more and more obvious...
The copyright system is utterly broken at that point. This kind of lawsuits don't make any sense.