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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 ...

"Lensa generated nudes from my childhood photos." Through Lensa's "Magic Avatars" application, people have the possibility to create wonderful images starting from personal photographs - however, risking that the AI ​​takes it too far. Following developments involving the production of NSFW material without it bein...

People no longer need to perfect their drawings, SketchAI can get the job done and make them look perfect, at the same time. The new Picsart application only requires a rough sketch to work, but there is the possibility of adding a brief description to facilitate the work of the AI. If the users wish so, they can even ...

"I quite like it, but how about changing that detail? Or you could fix that like this." Hearing these words, receiving advice or constructive criticism, is not sign of a failure. Too often creative minds sabotage themselves by trying to achieve perfection - an unattainable goal, as it is completely idealized. Fear of c...

In this conversation with the Magic: The Gathering artist Greg Rutkowski, podcaster Aaron Dhanda engages in a dialogue regarding the profound impact of the advent of Artificial Intelligence services as generators of art, especially within environments dedicated to digital art. The speech fluctuates between questions p...

Following an extensive debate that sees two digital artists Kris Kashtanova and Brian Penny as protagonists, a question has arisen: one that has so far been relegated behind the scenes of any disquisition. Both subjects are exponents of the panorama dedicated to generative art; having met online, they had the opportuni...

For the first time in history, three artists have come together to file legal cases against some Artificial Intelligence services due to their improper use of images and other people's works. In fact, a trio of creatives has opened a lawsuit against Deviantart, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney for copyright infringement...