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Can HBO use copyright to remove Game of Thrones spoiler videos?
Khaleesi is displeased with your DMCA take-down noticesA very interesting case has been developing this week to highlight several issues surrounding the DMCA take-down procedure, and the protection of...
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Can you copyright a recipe?
The BBC has announced that it will drop its online website for recipes in an effort to generate savings. This has raised quite a few eyebrows, with the hashtag #bbcrecipes currently the top UK trending...
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Viral cow video copied in ad campaign, but is it copyright infringement?
Is this copyright infringement? There is an interesting copyright case brewing online. Cyriak Harris is a British freelance video animator, famous for creating surreal videos involving cute animals...
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European Court rules on open wifi
The Court of Justice of the European Union has made a troubling ruling regarding open wifi spots in the case of McFadden v Sony Music (C-484/14). This just following the also problematic case of GS...
View ArticleWhat can the Copyright Directive vote tell us about the state of digital rights?
As we have been covering in the last couple of articles, a controversial EU Copyright Directive has been under discussion at the European Parliament, and in a surprising turn of events, it voted to...
View ArticleThe dangers hidden in the proposed Copyright Directive
This is a short post to bring together a few resources about the important vote taking place at the European Parliament on the proposed Copyright in the Digital Market Directive. I’ve written about the...
View ArticleWhat’s next for the proposed Copyright Directive?
On September 12 the European Parliament decided to ignore expert advice and adopted a version of the new Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) that contains troublesome issues,...
View ArticleWho owns this AI-generated painting?
Habitual readers may have noticed that I have been obsessed with artificial intelligence copyright for quite a while, almost as long as I have been interested in simian authorship. For anyone...
View ArticleNew EU Directive threatens the Internet as we know it
And so it has come to this, the great copyright battle of our time. After a troubled process that has spanned various stages of development, we finally have a proposed compromise text on the Digital...
View ArticleThe politics behind the proposed copyright directive
Last week we talked about the agreed text of the new copyright directive, particularly the problems presented by Article 13. Perhaps what is lost in all of the discussion is precisely why such a toxic...
View ArticleUsing Creative Commons images to train artificial intelligence
Whenever I have presented about artificial intelligence in the last few years, I often get asked the question of whether training an AI with data can infringe copyright. Take for example Bot Dylan, a...
View ArticleWho owns the Bitcoin white paper?
There is a very interesting dispute taking place in cryptocurrency circles right now that has nothing to do with price, hacking, exchanges, or any other of the usual hot topics surrounding this area....
View ArticleIs it time to look at monetisation as a new exclusive right of the author?
The first experience that most modern creators will have of copyright is through social media, and particularly through YouTube. In the early days of the network, YouTube had the reputation that it was...
View ArticleChinese court rules that AI article has copyright
A court in the Chinese city of Shenzen has decided that an article that was written by an artificial intelligence program has copyright protection. The article was written by Tencent’s Dreamwriter AI...
View ArticleCan someone copyright every possible melody?
Two musicians have written a computer program that recorded in MIDI format every possible 8-note and 12-beat melody combination, resulting in 68.7 billion tunes. They claim that by doing this, they...
View ArticleCan Sir Tim Berners-Lee sell an NFT of the WWW code?
We live in strange times. People post selfies getting an injection. A football tournament is being played with half-empty stadiums. Sotheby’s is selling digital assets and sneakers, and it will be...
View ArticleFeels Good Man! Pepe, copyright, and NFTs
In 2005 artist Matt Furie created four cartoon characters for a cartoon called Boy’s Club: Andy, Brett, Landwolf, and Pepe. You’d be forgiven if you were not familiar with the first three, but if...
View ArticleWhoever controls the DAO, controls the book: The strange tale of Jodorowsky’s...
Please gather around, and listen to this cautionary tale of schadenfreude and greed. This is not a tale for the faint of heart; it involves a cabal of crypto-enthusiasts involved in a decentralised...
View ArticleAugust Sander’s photographic archive in NFT copyright dispute
You wait months for an NFT case, and then two drop in the matter of days. First an English court confirmed that tokens are property (more on that when I get my hands on the decision), and now there is...
View ArticleCopyright infringement in artificial intelligence art
As AI creative tools are becoming widespread, the question of copyright of AI creations has also taken centre-stage. But while copyright nerds obsess over the authorship question, the issue that is...
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