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The European Union's intellectual property office recently published a study on the relationship between generative artificial intelligence and copyright. This technology has rapidly spread throughout the world and within most professional (and non-professional) contexts, considerably affecting the ethical and economi...

Today's article is a translation from Japanese of an article published on the PR Times website. The Japanese multinational Sony recently announced the start of a rather interesting partnership. Together with compatriot holding company Bandai Namco, the companies have invested 10 billion yen, equivalent to about 70 mil...

The legal status of a search engine is not exactly one of the most touted topics in the daily lives of most people: users are understandably so accustomed to using the service that they do not even remotely think about the possibility that the service is substandard. However, according to U.S. law, Google currently hol...

British multinational Marks & Spencer recently fell victim to a serious cyber attack. About a month ago, the London-based retailer was targeted by unknown agents intent on stealing private customer data - including phone numbers, dates of birth and residential addresses. According to Stuart Machin, the CEO of M&S, ther...

Sir Keir Starmer, current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recently received an urgent letter signed by more than 400 creative people, including British musicians, artists and writers. Within the latter, representatives of the nation's arts industry stressed the critical importance of timely action against the lib...

OpenAI, one of the leading companies in the artificial intelligence tech sector, recently announced that it is retracing its steps, withdrawing its intention to gain greater independence for the company's for-profit section. According to earlier statements, the latter section was to take complete control of OpenAI, tra...

Every day, thousands of people report acts of stalking, concealed figures walking in their steps, malicious individuals who cross the line at every good opportunity, becoming a constant presence in their existence. Stalking is characterized by a wide variety of opinions on the part of law enforcement, in some places it...

During a recent ruling, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Apple, the mobile technology giant, intentionally violated an injunction that prohibited the company from placing anticompetitive prices within their apps. As a result of this statement, the company was ordered to stop charging an additional 27 percent com...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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”...

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 ...

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...