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Few are aware of the specifics of using ebooks: they can't be resold, often not even loaned out - if bought through Amazon, they can solely be read through the company's devices. Consumers don't really own the ebook, they just paid to read it. As a result of economic developments within the online environment dedicated...

FN Meka, the virtual AI rapper, was recently dropped by the Capitol Records record company. The artist's name, if you can call it that, has already been removed from the label's website, which has publicly apologized to the inadvertently targeted community. The non-profit group Industry Blackout had previously expresse...

Many want to immerse themselves in the metaverse, but to make it attractive to the mass it's necessary that the content within it is interesting, fun and engaging. In South Korea, that content is K-pop. A large number of members of K-pop groups already have digital counterparts (Karina, a singer of the band "Aespa", u...

Towards the end of December, the messaging platform "Slack" was the victim of a cybersecurity incident - the company reassures, however, that sensitive user data and the primary code of the application have not been compromised. The issue essentially consists of a forced access to Github code repositories outside of Sl...

As it was easy to expect, there is more to come after LastPass November's data breach. The parent company GoTo, formerly LogMeIn, has declared a data breach where customer's backups along with encryption keys were stolen by an unidentified actor. When a Cloud Service Provider suffers a data breach, long term effects a...

Riot Games, the creator company of League of Legends and Valorant, was the victim of a hacker attack during January 2023. Through an email, the culprits asked for 10 million dollars in exchange for their silence regarding the source code of the games mentioned above. If paid, the hacker group promised to erase the inf...

In these hours, PayPal is sending a notice to about 35,000 users concerning unauthorised access to as many online accounts of the well-known online payment platform. The method, according to the platform's statement, is not due to a system breach but to access accounts using the same credentials (user names/passwords) ...

Do copyrighted works need to be produced exclusively by human hand? Yes, according to the United States Copyright Office (USCO). Originally inclined to provide the protection of the latter to a comic entirely composed of Generative Art, they have recently taken a step back, changing their minds. Author Kris Kashtanova'...

A sample of 5 million users has been posted on Breached on November 6th 2022. The sample is part of allegedly 240+ million records of Deezer. The French distributor admitted a data breach suffered by a third party in 2019 and whom which the company did not work since 2020. The breached information contains first and la...

The position of the intellectual property behemoth 'Disney' persists in its strategy of no longer creating physical copies of film products. This decision also affects all proprietary brands such as Marvel, Fox, etc. It is a strategy that snatches away the opportunity for collectors to own a physical collector's cop...

An academic study to help content creators create more effective watermarks. This is the intention behind Google's creation of an algorithm based on artificial intelligence that shows how easy it is to remove watermarks from images. A study that offers important food for thought on how much impact machine learning algo...

People write history. A war does not only victimize people, but also the history they have written (^SZ). UNESCO also takes a stand on the war in Europe, pointing out the need to reinforce protective measures for cultural heritage. Ukraine is home to seven sites protected by UNESCO as cultural heritage sites with the i...

The debate on copyright and artificial intelligence is an ongoing battle. The US Copyright Office has yet again rejected an appeal against an attempt to register a work generated by a "creative machine" based on a machine learning algorithm. The office's appeal is that works must be "the product of intellect and creati...

Being a content creator today is becoming an increasingly sensitive issue. A YouTube user with 20,000 subscribers on his channel, and around 2,000 on Twitch, faced a copyright violation when his video was uploaded to Google's platform: a few minutes' test to see how his new microphone worked. ContentID, YouTube's infri...

Brexit will allow the UK to avoid implementing the EU directive on copyright. This means, there will be neither Link Tax nor Upload Filters coming anytime soon. But is it all that good?

When you touch a segment of the market that is worth tens of billions of dollars a year (2021), three things are inevitable, in this order: hype and enthusiasm for the novelty, fraud and theft, and legal consequences. As OpenSea has experienced several problems in recent weeks, Cent - the platform that sold Jack Dorsey...