Anthropic seems to have removed some language from Claude‘s system prompt that toned down some anthropomorphisms #aicompanions

@adlrocha - How the "AI Loser" may end up winning Apple’s accidental moat

„If the model itself won’t hold the moat, capture the usage layer and make switching painful“

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines Let us know if you see more.

„Gentleman’s agreement“ between search engines and publishers keeps shifting

Rostam on Web Scraping Darius Rostam (Bucerius Law School) has posted Web Scraping in Culture and Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article examines the practice of web scraping through its under-illuminated cultural dimension. It situates scraping within internet culture, identifying semiotic markers of both openness and enclosure. Web scraping occupies an ambivalent position between these cultures, laden with symbols invoking both trespass and free access.

Rostam on Web Scraping

Darius Rostam (Bucerius Law School) has posted Web Scraping in Culture and Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article examines the practice of web scraping through its under-illuminated cultural dimension. It situates scraping within internet culture, identifying…

Rostam on AI Training and Copyright Darius Rostam (Bucerius Law School) has posted Opt-Outs in Copyright Law: Can They Save AI Training Under Fair Use and the Three-Step Test? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The use of copyright-protected works for AI training has thrust opt-out schemes into the center of copyright discourse. Unlike conventional copyright rules requiring prior authorization, opt-out schemes permit uses by default unless rights holders affirmatively object, effectively reversing copyright's traditional logic of exclusivity.

Rostam on AI Training and Copyright

Darius Rostam (Bucerius Law School) has posted Opt-Outs in Copyright Law: Can They Save AI Training Under Fair Use and the Three-Step Test? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The use of copyright-protected works for AI training has thrust opt-out schemes into the…

xkcd 2347, but edited by me to say "All post-WWII popular culture" for the mass of things built on the shaky foundation and "Lax enforcement of copyright law" for the critical single piece of that foundation that, if removed, would topple the whole thing

what I wish I could scream whenever I see artists clamouring to extend the scope of copyright and enforce it harder, be it to stop AI or for any other reason

I wrote a short post about my new paper, Copyright's Jagged Frontier, forthcoming article in the Duke Law Journal, matthewsag.com/copyrights-j.... Download it now on SSRN (who still have it marked as under review!?) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Ein Beschluss des OLG FFM, der weit über das Markenrecht hinausgeht:

Verletzt ein Unternehmer gewerbliche Schutzrechte oder betreibt es Geldwäsche, hat ein Wettbewerber keine Unterlassungsansprüche aus UWG!

6 W 165/25 www.lareda.hessenrecht.hessen.de/bshe/documen...

@ulihildebrandt.bsky.social

Easily one of the top charts of all time

Eine gute Zeit! Im Schwarzwald lässt es sich gut wandern.

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Happy 11th anniversary of me losing my fucking mind over this QVC clip

As the former Google Associate General Counsel for web search -- a product built on scraping third party content without permission -- I'm having a lot of trouble processing Google's new lawsuit against someone else for scraping search results. storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...

Are Robots.txt Instructions Legally Binding?-Ziff Davis v. OpenAI - Technology & Marketing Law Blog Robots.txt files express a website’s preferences for robot access. Despite their venerability, there are not many cases discussing the legal implications of robots.txt files and robot exclusion header...

Blog Post: Are Robots.txt Instructions Legally Binding?–Ziff Davis v. OpenAI

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Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social

The persistence of memorization We've now had two recent decisions in the UK and Germany very close together that have dealt with AI and copyright. I won't go in detail again on the rulings, you can read the previous posts discussing them here and here, but something arose in those cases that prompted me to write this blog post, and it is the question of memorization, which was dealt with quite differently by each court.

The persistence of memorization

We've now had two recent decisions in the UK and Germany very close together that have dealt with AI and copyright. I won't go in detail again on the rulings, you can read the previous posts discussing them here and here, but something arose in those cases that…

Zitat: „Das Urteil fügt sich in das derzeit beliebte Narrativ ein, wonach die EU als streng regulierende, die Rechtsinhaber schützende Ordnungsmacht auftritt, während die USA auf Marktlösung setzen und KI-Anbietern entgegenkommen.“

Wie darf generative KI urheberrechtlich geschütztes Material nutzen?

Eine Antwort gab es nun vom LG München, das in einer Klage der GEMA gegen OpenAI entschied.

LINDA KUSCHEL und DARIUS ROSTAM über eine weltweit diskutierte Frage und die Folgen der Entscheidung.

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