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45% of the EU's total economic activity is attributable to the intellectual property industry worth EUR 6.6 trillion in Patents, Trade Marks, Industrial Design and Copyright. (25 September 2019, EUIPO)
We have collected in these pages a set of articles and news from around the world on the topic of Intellectual Property and Copyright, selected and verified by our Press Office.
My AI therapist got me through dark times: The good and bad of chatbot counselling.
2025-05-21 BBC
Artificial intelligence has proven itself over and over again as a tool with multiple potentials, a valuable resource that, if used in the right way, can be able to provide substantial help. The ethical and sustainable aspect of this recent technology is not to be ignored, although there is a tendency to cast aside the...
Photos on Vinted end up on erotic Telegram groups: the investigation that shut down “Girls of Vinted.” How to protect yourself.
2025-05-20 Open
A recent investigation initiated by the three German newspapers Ndr, Wdr and Süddeutsche Zeitung uncovered the “Girls of Vinted” group, yet another Telegram chat created for perverted purposes. The discussion participants' modus operandi is to collect images from the buying and selling app “Vinted” and then sh...
Failure Modes of Traditional Media Distribution.
2025-05-19 Paragraph
The article we offer today is quite different from the content we usually share. It is not from a renowned news outlet, but from a newsletter featured on Paragraph, a platform that gives space for any user to post their thoughts and research, without any limitation on topics and issues.
The reflection in question conc...
OpenAI explains why ChatGPT became too sycophantic.
2025-05-16 TechCrunch
"This morning I walked out of the supermarket, someone said hi and asked for directions. I was furious! Like, don't people able to mind their business anymore?"
"Yeah, makes sense. It's not even about the "hi"or directions - it's the intrusion. [...] it's like they don't realize they're taking something - your attenti...
Forgers and fraudsters trusted him for decades — but he was an undercover FBI art detective.
2025-05-15 CNN
There are people who devote their entire existence to a very specific mission, whether it is to protect their fellow man in wartime contexts, or to safeguard the precious cultural assets that make up a nation's current and historical identity. Like FBI investigator Ronnie Walker, who prepared for years to go undercover...
Lawyer for MyPillow Founder Filed AI-Generated Brief with ‘Nearly 30’ Bogus Citations.
2025-05-14 Gizmodo
The use of artificial intelligence to generate documents for later use within legal contexts is not exactly new; in years past, at the beginning of the impressive rise experienced by the technology in question, several legal professionals were reprimanded for submitting documents containing typical “hallucinations”...
“You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy campaign may have used pirated fonts.
2025-05-13 ARS Technica
During the early 2000s there was a widespread practice of including anti-piracy advertising at the beginning of films shown in theaters, and later also within content transposed to DVD. The campaign in question was promoted by the Motion Picture Association of America, an association formed to promote the interests of ...
Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water.
2025-05-12 404 Media
We recently had occasion to mention the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an investigative branch of the U.S. federal government that reports directly to Congress. As the supreme oversight institution of the entire nation, it is known as the “watchdog” of the state and is responsible for maintaining integrity...
Like to play alone? Ubisoft is still watching you!
2025-05-09 Noyb
The idea of having to connect to the Internet in order to immerse in a multiplayer game is completely normal nowadays. A connection to the vast online world is essential, otherwise it would be impossible to be able to interact with other players. However, when it comes to single-player video games it should not be nece...
Almost half of Europeans do not trust 'tech bros' or companies rolling out frontier tech like AI.
2025-05-08 Euronews
Artificial intelligence is making its way within the daily lives of the vast majority of individuals, whether through professional use or unwanted implementation in social media. The general opinion of industry leaders has, of course, always been quite positive, highlighting a certain degree of confidence in the apprec...
The Man Who Wants AI to Help You ‘Cheat on Everything’.
2025-05-07 404 Media
Who doesn't like to take shortcuts from time to time? Preferring the quick and easy, if morally less appropriate, path when faced with a long and winding alternative might be understandable, depending on the context and situation at hand. Nevertheless, avoiding abusing the human tendency to continue on the easier path ...
The hidden world beneath the shadows of YouTube's algorithm.
2025-05-06 BBC
In recent years, YouTube's algorithm has proven increasingly corrupted by the relentless need to share negative, hate-filled news, aimed at spreading information, yes, but with a discreet focus on malice. Several studies have shown that the platform currently tends to push content that amplifies negativity to the front...
Hertz car rental customers' driver's licenses ended up on the dark web.
2025-05-05 WIRED
In December 2024, the Cleo Communications company was the victim of a cyber attack by the Clop ransomware cybergang. The breach occurred due to a zero-day vulnerability present in the file transfer platforms used to send sensitive files with its employees. As a result, several names have been implicated within the affa...
‘A death blow’: Filmmakers, archivists reel as DOGE suddenly cuts their funding.
2025-05-02 SFS
Within the Bay Area, a metropolitan area surrounding San Francisco, California, several humanities projects were able to remain viable and continue their initiatives thanks to grants from the NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities), an independent US government agency dedicated to supporting research in the humanit...
Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”.
2025-05-01 404 Media
Current artificial intelligence systems are undoubtedly characterized by clear preferences - biases, some would say. Considering the origin of the materials to “train” these models, whether LLMs (large language models) or AI generators of visual content, it is now generally known that the results provided by these ...
Scammers Used OpenAI to Flood the Web with SEO Spam.
2025-04-30 404 Media
According to a recent report by a researcher at SentinelOne, a US company specializing in cybersecurity, a new trend is spreading in the online scam landscape. Several scammers appear to be using AkiraBot, a program whose main task is to fill the comment sections and chats of websites with artificially generated messag...