As technology and collaboration tools expand, the absence of basic intellectual property literacy limits students’ ability to innovate responsibly and protect their own creative work. Schools at all levels can address this gap by introducing age-appropriate concepts early, reinforcing them throughout secondary education, and preparing high school and college students for the practical realities of employment and commercialization.
Source: Reading, Writing and … IP
More and more, Hollywood depicts technology as a countdown to catastrophe. Google would like Hollywood to consider another possibility: What if the technological future isn’t terrifying at all? “Oftentimes, you’ve seen technology represented onscreen in a way that is intentionally making a point that may just be a bit misinformed,” said Jonathan Zepp, Google’s head of entertainment content and platforms.
Source: Google Wants Hollywood to Stop Being So Afraid of Technology
The European Commission is gathering feedback on challenges and options for potential future measures to support the impact of technology, including artificial intelligence, on the effective copyright protection amid market and technology developments of creative works and innovations. While the EU already benefits from a robust copyright framework, emerging challenges and market developments raise the question of whether the framework should be reinforced.
The US has criticised Australia’s proposal to give users the ability to opt out of social media algorithms, saying it amounts to “censorship of protected speech”. Under Australia’s draft digital duty of care laws, tech firms risk hefty fines if they fail to give users the option to turn off algorithms in a bid to protect them from harmful content. In a rare submission to the proposed laws, the US embassy in Canberra said it had “serious concerns.”
Source: US criticises Australia’s proposed algorithm opt-out laws as ‘censorship’
The European Union will propose a ban restricting kids under 15 from accessing social media, video sharing platforms such as YouTube, AI chatbots, and even online games, in the broadest-reaching proposal yet to attempt to protect kids from online predators. Companies would be required to pay a supervisory fee to fund regulators’ enforcement and continued supervision.
Source: EU Set to Propose Sweeping Ban on Social Media and More for Kids Under 15
Two leading progressive lawmakers, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar, are unveiling legislation Wednesday that would ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal agency to oversee advanced AI as some of the industry’s own leaders urge Congress to impose guardrails on the advancing technology. The bill would also pause advanced AI development until guidelines are implemented while creating the Department of Artificial Intelligence. Multiple employees at leading AI companies are endorsing the bill.
Source: Sen. Sanders unveils bill to ban artificial superintelligence, create Dept. of AI
The company set out that description in a statement responding to a second copyright lawsuit filed on Friday (September 18) by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in Boston federal court, where the labels’ original case against the company is already being heard. Suno said v6 was trained on “interactions including creations and preference signals” from its community.
Source: Suno confirms V6 model was trained on ‘creations’ from users
The company has commissioned a survey of 1,070 business executives in the UK about how their companies use music, estimating that around 800,000 business locations there play music every day. However, 86% of those companies are playing that music through regular streaming services – Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and Amazon Music are all popular options – despite those consumer services not being licensed for business use.
Source: Soundtrack says UK businesses aren’t licensing music properly
Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress,” is having a rough time on its first press tour. The production company that created it, Particle6 Group, has made it available for 75 simultaneous interviews with journalists, and it seems to be making mistakes in all of them. In one particularly odd interview with Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti, which was recorded and posted online, Norwood seems to malfunction and abruptly begin speaking Chinese.
Source: Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
Among the top-line items: Paramount has committed to not sell the Paramount Studios or Warner Bros. lots in California for at least five years. That comes after Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison had threatened to pull up stakes from the Golden State if he couldn’t close the WBD deal by Oct. 1. Under the terms of the proposed settlement, Paramount will invest at least an additional $300 million on film production in the U.S. annually — for a total of $1.5 billion over five years