The OG Mickey Mouse Finally Hits the Public Domain Next Week

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January 1, 2024 won’t just be the start of a new year. It’ll also see Mickey and Minnie Mouse enter the public domain.

No, AI cannot be named as an inventor, UK Supreme Court says

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Stephen Thaler said an AI system (not pictured) autonomously created a light beacon and other items.

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A Stability executive quit after saying that generative AI 'exploits creators.' It could spell trouble for AI companies.

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Stability AI has argued that it should be able to train its AI on copyrighted works without permission from creators.

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The New York Times got its content removed from one of the biggest AI training datasets. Here's how it did it.

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The New York Times' office and Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO.

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OpenAI wants to make its customers less jittery about being hit by copyright lawsuits by offering to pay their legal costs

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ChatGPT developer Sam Altman has sparked a wave of AI chatter in Corporate America.
In a statement posted to the company's website, OpenAI clarified that the policy was called a Copyright Shield.

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Andreessen Horowitz is not at all 'techno-optimistic' about this particular AI scenario

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A small UK software company which trademarked the name Threads over 10 years ago is demanding Meta stop using the name within 30 days

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Mark Zuckerberg and Meta's Threads app.

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Music publishers sue Amazon-backed AI company, accusing it of 'systematic and widespread' infringement of song lyrics

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Bad Bunny at the Billboard Latin Music Awards on October 05, 2023 in Coral Gables, Florida.
Bad Bunny is one artist represented by Universal Music Publishing.

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OpenAI offers a way for creators to opt out of AI training data. It's so onerous that one artist called it 'enraging.'

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Sam Altman speaks to members of the media during Microsoft's announcement of a new, AI-powered Bing search at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday, February 7, 2023.

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OpenAI's GPTBot and other AI web crawlers are being blocked by even more companies now

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Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and an illustration of GPT-4.

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