DEAR #IP #PATENT LAWYERS,
am still watching pre-code movies, particularly movies around 1928 the year Jazz Man came out and talkies became a thing.

one thing i’ve noticed are the big PATENT NOTICES at the beginning of talkies. that has made me wonder: i have not noticed patent notices at the beginning of silent movies.

so i ask: is this why there were a fuckton of independent silent film makers? did sound film #patents help concentrate power into the Hollywood studios monopsony?

Big tech companies want total control but opt-out should be the way to go:

"OpenAI and Google have rejected the government’s preferred approach to solve the dispute about artificial intelligence and copyright.

In February almost every UK daily newspaper gave over its front page and website to a campaign to stop tech giants from exploiting the creative industries.

The government’s plan, which has prompted protests from leading figures in the arts, is to amend copyright law to allowdevelopers to train their AI models on publicly available content for commercial use without consent from rights holders, unless they opt out.

However, OpenAI has called for a broader copyright exemption for AI, rejecting the opt-out model."

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/google-openai-reject-copyright-plan-bnnzztts9

"More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites based on allegations of piracy. The backlash was immediate and massive. Internet users, free speech advocates, and tech companies flooded lawmakers with protests, culminating in an “Internet Blackout” on January 18, 2012. Turns out, Americans don’t like government-run internet blacklists. The bills were ultimately shelved.

Thirteen years later, as institutional memory fades and appetite for opposition wanes, members of Congress in both parties are ready to try this again.

The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA), along with at least one other bill still in draft form, would revive this reckless strategy. These new proposals would let rights holders get federal court orders forcing ISPs and DNS providers to block entire websites based on accusations of infringing copyright. Lawmakers claim they’re targeting “pirate” sites—but what they’re really doing is building an internet kill switch.

These bills are an unequivocal and serious threat to a free and open internet. EFF and our supporters are going to fight back against them."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever

Question to the network people out there:

Are there any ISPs that are IPv6 only (without providing a NAT/whatever)?

Background: Having an argument with a provider that hasn't published any AAAA records, and whilst I think that's poor form, I'm wondering if this would actually negatively affect any actual users in practice?

Intellectual Property News Agency(AG-IP-News) https://www.byteseu.com/864060/ #agencies #Copyright #DomainNames #Geopolitics #IndustrialDesign #IntellectualProperty #inventions #IP #IPActivities #IPAnnouncements #IPEvents #IPNews #LatestNews #LAW #licensing #NewsAgency #patents #protection #TAG #TalalAbuGhazaleh #Trademark

'The federal government will ban non-compete clauses for most employees, including hairdressers, construction workers and childcare centre staff, according to changes announced in the budget that could help households boost their income.

The policy, designed to come into effect from 2027, would apply to workers earning less than the high-income threshold, currently $175,000 a year.

More than 3 million workers are covered by such clauses, according to the government.' https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/25/australia-federal-budget-2025-non-compete-clauses-banned-details #auspol #auslaw #IP #employment #competition

Разработка скрипта для распознавания капчи Cloudflare
https://habr.com/ru/articles/892986/

Я понимаю, что иногда Cloudflare используют, чтобы скрыть настоящий #IP-адрес сайта. Или чтобы сайт, у которого нет #IPv4-адреса, был доступен и тем пользователям, у которых в 2025 году почему-то всё ещё нет #IPv6. Было бы лучше, если бы каждый сайт за Cloudflare был доступен также в скрытосетях: #Tor #onion, #I2P.

#captcha #капча #Cloudflare @rf @russian_mastodon @ru

Private #Browserfenster verhindern keine Identifikation im Netz.

Die #IP-Adresse und das Browser-#Fingerprinting ermöglichen weiterhin das Benutzer-#Tracking.

Wer wirkliche #Anonymität sucht, sollte auf Tools wie den #TorBrowser setzen. Doch auch der schützt nicht vor allen Gefahren.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/was-bringt-der-incognito-modus-im-browser-100.html

"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released February 28, the USPTO further restricted access to inter partes review, or IPR—the process Congress created to let the public challenge invalid patents without having to wage million-dollar court battles.

If left unchecked, this decision will shield bad patents from scrutiny, embolden patent trolls, and make it even easier for hedge funds and large corporations to weaponize weak patents against small businesses and developers."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-uspto-memo-makes-fighting-patent-trolls-even-harder

Artificial intelligence companies are creating incredibly large scale denial of service situations on the infrastructure of Open Source Networks.

Now Network owners need to waste time on Finding ways of sending All These requests of the rogue AI insects to /dev/null

@altbot

#DDoS #DenialOfService #AI #LLM #KDE #crawler #programming #Alibaba #IP #FOSS #attack #OpenSource

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
#theatlantic #LibGen #Meta #AI #Copyright #IP

Authors are humans.
Machines are tools.

‘In a landmark opinion over the copyrightability of works created by artificial intelligence, a (US) D.C. Circuit panel ruled on Tuesday that human authorship is required for copyright protection.’

https://www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-rules-ai-generated-work-ineligible-for-copyright/

Australia defends Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme as US companies urge Trump to impose reciprocal tariffs https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/australia-defends-pbs-us-pharma-urges-reciprocal-tariffs/105072750 #IP #trade #health #PBS #tariffs #access2meds

US patent law requires inventors to be human, but allows #AI tools in the research process. A law professor explores how policymakers will need to balance personal ingenuity with AI assistance in shaping the future of #innovation: https://theconversation.com/when-humans-use-ai-to-earn-patents-who-is-doing-the-inventing-248216 #IP

#Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer:

#Vorratsdatenspeicherung von #IP-Adressen unzulässig

Die #Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer und der Verband der Internetwirtschaft erteilen neuen Ideen für eine #Vorratsdatenspeicherung eine deutliche Absage. In einer Stellungnahme erläutern die Anwälte, warum die geplante anlassunabhängige Massenspeicherung von #IP-Adressen und #Port-Nummern gegen die Vorgaben des #EuropäischenGerichtshofs verstößt.

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/bundesrechtsanwaltskammer-vorratsdatenspeicherung-von-ip-adressen-unzulaessig/#netzpolitik-pw

"While books that come on audio CDs don't have DRM embedded in them, files downloaded from Audible or other for-pay sources often do. Audiobookshelf won't play books with DRM, which means you need a method of stripping that DRM out.

Unfortunately, here's where we run into a problem: removing DRM from your audiobooks is not universally legal. "In the US, the law against 'circumventing' effective DRM has no personal-use exemption. In Europe, it varies by country," explained the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Competition and IP Litigation Director Mitch Stoltz when Ars reached out for advice. "That's as silly as it sounds—stripping DRM from one’s own copy of an audiobook in order to listen to it privately through different software doesn’t threaten the author or publisher, except that it makes it harder for them to charge you twice for the same audiobook. It’s another example of how anti-circumvention laws interfere with consumers’ rights of ownership over the things they buy."

And that means you're kind of on your own for this step. Should you live in a jurisdiction where DRM removal from audiobooks for personal use is legal—which includes some but not all European countries—then sites like this one can assist in the process; for the rest of us, the only advice I can give is to simply proceed in a legal manner and use DRM-free audiobooks to start with."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/i-threw-away-audibles-app-and-now-i-self-host-my-audiobooks/