Shrugging off inflation, consumption linked to "oshikatsu," or activities that support favorite characters and celebrities, is growing in Japan, while boosting related stocks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/28/oshikatsu-consumption-grows-in-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #oshikatsu #stocks #celebrities #intellectualproperty #sanrio #bandainamco
I'm convinced that in the history books we'll credit BitTorrent for having preserved a significant chunk of humanity's cultural production
Greg Lloyd
boosted
The landmark #settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in #legal battles between #AI companies & the #writers, #VisualArtists & other #creative professionals who accuse them of #CopyrightInfringement.
#Anthropic has agreed to pay #authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 #books covered by the settlement.
The landmark #settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in #legal battles between #AI companies & the #writers, #VisualArtists & other #creative professionals who accuse them of #CopyrightInfringement.
#Anthropic has agreed to pay #authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 #books covered by the settlement.
#Anthropic to pay #authors $1.5 billion to
settle lawsuit over pirated #chatbot training material
settle lawsuit over pirated #chatbot training material
#ArtificialIntelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a #ClassAction lawsuit by #book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.
#law#LLM #tech #art#IntellectualProperty
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-copyright-authors-settlement-training-f294266bc79a16ec90d2ddccdf435164?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-05-AI+vs.+authors
Anderson seems to hold on to beliefs about how Sillycon Valley works that require a complete suspension of natural scepticism and total amnesia of recent tech history. Cadwalladr has the patience of a saint for resisting the urge to laugh in his face given some of the gormless things he says out loud in that interview.
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But Carole Cadwalladr loses me about 5 minutes from the end, where she claims that copyrights are "property" and that copying public data is like walking into someone's house to "steal the silver". For one thing, this is just factually wrong, and was thoroughly debunked 20 years ago;
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/boldrin-levine.en.html
But it's also the old anti-traveller cant; 'we can't have those kind of people loitering around here, going into people's places stealing the silver'.
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Tokyo Electron is struggling to address the potential fallout with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. after a former employee was implicated in a possible theft of chip technology from the chipmaker. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/08/companies/tokyo-electron-tsmc-trade-secrets-leak/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #tsmc #taiwan #tokyoelectron #trade #tech #chipmakers #intellectualproperty
Y’all. Mastodon has a new Terms of Service that’s problematic. I’m hoping and cautiously optimistic that they’ll sort it out. But for now it’s not good.
@mcc wrote one of the best GitHub issues I’ve ever seen. It explains everything in great detail. Check it out if you want a full picture on the situation.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086
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(UPDATE: our crowd-sourced concern has them pausing on this. https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821)
Y’all. Mastodon has a new Terms of Service that’s problematic. I’m hoping and cautiously optimistic that they’ll sort it out. But for now it’s not good.
@mcc wrote one of the best GitHub issues I’ve ever seen. It explains everything in great detail. Check it out if you want a full picture on the situation.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086
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(UPDATE: our crowd-sourced concern has them pausing on this. https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821)