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It is no news that, nowadays, images generated by Artificial Intelligences go viral within a few hours: but few of these creations have really managed to travel around the world. However, this is the case with the Pope dressed in a particularly interesting overcoat. Originally uploaded to Reddit, within a section dedi...

In April 2022 a painting of considerable importance, depicting San Gennaro, was repatriated from Malta and destined for public fruition. Entrusted to the Diocesan Museum of Benevento, the subject in question went through a process of assignment of custody and faculty of use carried out by the Police for the Protection ...

Nobody expected the impact of ChatGPT, probably not even OpenAi itself; released in November as a "preview for research purposes", the service is now one of the most used by consumer users. The average user, if knowledgeable in the technological field, is by now accustomed to a certain aesthetic present within digital...

1. Louis Vuitton loses Copyright Infringement case. The French Court of Appeal has ordered Louis Vuitton to pay designer Jocelyn Imbert €900,000 following plagiarism of a padlock design she created. 2. Streaming pirates sentenced to 10 years in prison. In the UK, 4 people were arrested following their participatio...

Astronut, digital artist of considerable importance in the world of virtual creativity, will be present at the Trento Art Festival. He will present a number of his own works to the public, including a collection of NFT works, called "Asomatos Spheres". The artist is already working on "The Baby", a new Augmented Reali...

Apparently, declaring a game "abandoned" doesn't give you the right to sell it via blockchain. In early 2022, the "Retro Arcade" game collection was presented as a method to preserve abandoned games, incorporating a series of video games in the form of NFTs, without however any type of authorization from the original ...

In his recently published "Walled Culture - How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor," author Glyn Moody makes this bold statement. The book focuses on the history of copyright, going back more than 300 years, to then underline how the transition from analog to digital has...

In the first months of 2022, the OpenSea site was subject to an accident regarding a quite dangerous glitch, a situation that led to the loss of various NFTs by users. As a result, the company has decided to provide refunds to those affected by this situation. The glitch in question was caused by an error within one o...

In these last few months there has been a great deal of attention dedicated of the comic "Zarya Of The Dawn": a project whose images were generated entirely by the AI Midjourney, later curated and composed by the artist Kristina Kashtanova. By now it has been established that the US Office dedicated to the protection ...

Today, we're speaking once again of "Zarya of the Dawn", the comic completely composed of images generated by Artificial Intelligences. As previously discussed, the work has been defined as unsuitable to be protected by copyright laws, as it was produced through Midjourney. Written by Kristina Kashtanova, the project ...

Reddit, the platform dedicated to online discussions and pillar of user-generated information for more than 15 years, recently released a Transparency Report regarding the increase in subscriptions, but also notices of removals for copyright infringement. The total of the latter had exceeded the sum of 2021 already in...

Yuga Labs, the parent company of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, said it does not have Copyright Registration for the 10,000 images used within the Bored Ape NFT collection. The news came to light following a batch of new documents provided for the ongoing lawsuit with artist Ryder Ripps. Last June, Yuga Labs itself sued Ri...

Recently, Google researchers announced a new generative Artificial Intelligence service: MusicLM. The subject in question is able to generate music starting from "rich descriptive captions", and can transform a mumbled melody into an effective piece, even of different genres. The service has been "trained" though the ...

The collection of NFTs called the "Bored Ape Yacht Club" has been the target of investigations by the US Securities and Exchange Commission in recent months. In addition, not only has the collection in question seen its value decrease exponentially, it has also become the target of a series of fundamental questions and...

A forgotten database. This is exactly the kind of stuff we're observing in nowadays IT unmanaged DevOps and development activities. Thousands of Cloud services, S3 buckets, computing instances, containers are being deployed daily to speed up deployment and development of new (old) solutions, not assessed, not tracked...

"Another step towards making AI fair and ethical for all." AIs have become quite popular in the last period, but it isn't universally known that they are virtually "trained" to generate results through the use of images taken online, obviously without asking for any consent from the original owners. What's more, as a ...