I've been on a little bit of an AI IP licensing spree for the IPKat lately: I have *a lot* of thoughts...
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IP law Lecturer at University of Liverpool Law School. All things copyright and trade mark.
I've been on a little bit of an AI IP licensing spree for the IPKat lately: I have *a lot* of thoughts...
ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/your...
ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/as-a...
ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/copy...
Some feels about the Anthropic settlement. Spoiler: this is a joke and authors and human creativity deserves more than this. Also how is future competition and authorial livelihood irrelevant. Some far nicer words here: ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/09/gues...
27.09.2025 16:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A little bit of a break from bluesky but happy to have a few new posts on ipkat on Sylvanian freedom of expression drama, meta & slimy shady, & Missy Elliott's last minute settlement.
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Thanks! Hehe happy to have such good support at Chicago-Kent because that is beyond me!
16.09.2025 19:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Marking IP essays and the answer for nearly all problems, according to most students, is codification? Am I missing something here? Since when did the common law go out of fashion? π
01.05.2025 12:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The paid version of ChatGPT will happily make Studio Ghibli images. The free version tells you it can't because it's copyrighted. Doesn't seem great! www.businessinsider.com/openai-studi...
28.03.2025 14:31 β π 191 π 39 π¬ 6 π 2Maybe it also convinced them to also use signal over WhatsApp etc ππ
28.03.2025 14:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0happy #worldpoetryday An oldie, but a favourite. sometimes life moves way too fast to keep up.
21.03.2025 13:32 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The perfect (pink) set up for office hours
14.03.2025 09:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Feels timely.
08.03.2025 07:45 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And the genAI landscape gets even fuzzier.
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Faversham, a love at first sight. #kent #nature #countrywalks
02.03.2025 15:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0TikTok sunsets its creator marketplace for TikTok One, a broader solution with AI tools
27.02.2025 19:51 β π 9 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1Overhead on campus. "Orange wine isn't made from oranges? Definitely not as cool as I thought, maybe I should make orange mead."
27.02.2025 16:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hi can you add me too!
25.02.2025 22:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This!!!!! And yet publishers complain.
25.02.2025 16:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think there needs to be more nuance though. Again we're artists are used to front policy change while publishers continue to licence authorial works to #AI companies. There needs to be a distinction of #copyright holders ie. authors vs those holding exploitation rights.
25.02.2025 11:32 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Let's not also forget those with exploitation rights (producers and publishers) that do not pay authors properly and licence access to datasets and for TDM and training #AI models, securing their own future income streams.
25.02.2025 07:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Amazing. Though nothing new in #copyright land. Amending boundaries to only foster new online business models - now it is #AI. Where is the author, the artist, the performer in these discussions? Clearly, absent. #UKpolitics
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You shouldn't need a permission slip to read a webpageβwhether you do it with your own eyes, or use software to help.
24.02.2025 21:20 β π 132 π 27 π¬ 6 π 5still thinking about this question:
"you talked about how the law comes to bear on dupes. but how will dupes change the law?"
In Germany young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left
24.02.2025 10:56 β π 13 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1Publishers suing AI startup for Β©οΈ and TM infringement?? Reputational harm stemming from being linked as fictional articles. Now only if Β©οΈ authors could rely on [artistic] reputational harm for being used for training AI models. How the pendulum swings.
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Saturdays in Feb are for the woods πEast Blean Woods π
22.02.2025 15:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just a wee excited this arrived today! Trying to catch up on views outside of trad legal and economic theory on AI. We need a complete picture for any future regulation.
22.02.2025 15:13 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Zara has a new collab with 'stylenotcom' - Could this be a nuanced response to fast fashion, copying and utility items? Possibly. But the tagline 'I always end up at Zara' has weight in the shadow of fashion week.
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Out on the sweeping plains west of Broken Hill, some curious teenager emus came all the way from the horizon right over to see what I was doing.
The wildflowers include darling peas, swainson-peas and native daisies.
Boolcoomatta Reserve, South Australia.
Thanks!
19.02.2025 14:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0London day trip. 4Β° but perfectly sunny. Russell square always brings back the best memories.
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