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"Zodiac Academy," a popular fantasy saga centered around werewolves, fairies and magical creatures, has captured the attention of the media over the past month. Due to the first page found within the books of the saga, the two writers Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti have been the target of complaints from readers....

The Tiktok platform has recently become a source of AI-generated videos, complete with the use of deepfakes. The situation attracted media attention following the virality of a video featuring comedian Joe Rogan, who was promoting a brand of coffee aimed at men, as it was enriched with testosterone. Following a brief ...

Controversial influencer Logan Paul is once again in the spotlight: accused of carrying out a rug pull within his own CryptoZoo NFT project, he is now subject to a class action lawsuit. Released in 2021, CryptoZoo was touted as an NFT-based play environment, promising to allow participants to buy, sell, and trade exot...

According to OpenAi, the successor to GPT-3 would be able to pass the selections necessary to enter the best universities, without having been directly "trained" through past exams. This means that GPT-4 is able to pass a test without having specifically "studied" for that type of assessment. OpenAI, the company that ...

The ALPHV group, notoriously known for their use of ransomware viruses, claims to have hacked into the popular "Ring" security camera system, owned by Amazon. The company said it had no evidence of any breaches, later explaining that only one third-party vendor was victim to a ransomware attack. ALPHV promptly respond...

In August 2022, Roblox filed a lawsuit against WowWee, a Hong Kong-based toy company. Recently, the federal judge dismissed most of the charges perpetrated, however ruling some statements as worthy of trial. The subject of the situation is represented by the line of dolls "My Avastars" which, according to Roblox, look...

Anyone who has used Instagram recently will have realized how thousands and thousands of songs have been removed from the platform's media library, thus depriving a large number of Reels of the soundtrack that characterized them. On March 16, 2023, a press release was issued by the SIAE, in which it communicated the "...

Art has always been considered an area that does not pay handsomely, unless a person has the great fortune to break through, or the constancy to continue. It is no news that artists starve and need to practice an external profession in order to maintain their passions. Following the introduction of Artificial Intellig...

Following an accusation of copyright infringement by Korean developer Nexon, the mastermind behind Dark and Darker has decided to use unconventional means to defend himself against the insinuation. Nexon claims that Ironmace, the developer of the game in question, used "P3", a game under development by Nexon, as a prot...

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...