Derek Slater

Yr welcome but now I want your analysis of it too. 😋

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The Manufactured Panic Over Tilly Norwood The recent uproar over Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated “actress” introduced at the Zurich Film Festival, has revealed more about…

Really smart analysis by music industry veteran and @au-mtd.bsky.social doctoral candidate Neil Perry:

The Manufactured Panic Over Tilly Norwood

#ai #cinema #labor #IP

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat ...

for those who don't follow it, "chat control" is the idea that, since encrypted messaging can't be spied on / monitored, that your actual phone should scan everything you write or send before you send it www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Giving users choice with Cloudflare’s new Content Signals Policy Cloudflare’s Content Signals Policy gives creators a new tool to control use of their content.

Cloudflare is now end running this process, despite its employee chairing the IETF group blog.cloudflare.com/content-sign...

I have never in my life covered an FCC official that gives less of a fuck about the public interest

even first term FCC boss Ajit Pai, who was a complete revolving door hack, believed this sort of censorship crossed a line

Losing my ever-loving-mind watching the same people who were just clutching their pearls claiming censorship over mean emails from WH staffers to Twitter about COVID misinfo are now HAVING THE FCC CHAIR openly threaten broadcast licenses over a joke about the president AND THE BROADCASTERS CENSOR IT

And the Ellisons are also first in line to buy TikTok if it gets sold, which would fuse CBS, CNN, Time Warner, Paramount, and TikTok all into one company whose entire function would be to blow smoke up the right wing's ass

revised version published here: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-si...

@daphnek.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social related, from late last week: www.alliancepresse.fr/actualite/la...

We've seen this story with EU publishers before ....

See also: bsky.app/profile/daph... (filed under 'it could still get worse')

The Anthropic Settlement – what it is and isn’t (and who could get paid) www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com EDIT: On Sunday evening, Judge Alsup granted the motion for a hearing on Monday, September 8th, but expressed disappointment over lack of details, mostly on the…

I found this explanation of the Bartz v Anthropic settlement quite useful. www.authorsalliance.org/2025/09/07/t...

Meanwhile, here is a new publisher proposal

Proposal to replace current vocabulary with a display-based preferences vocabulary · Issue #149 · ietf-wg-aipref/drafts Confirmation I have reviewed our existing WLGC issues and this issue is not present there. I have read and understand the IETF NOTE WELL. Issue Description Building on the note I sent to the Workin...

Imo, ppl have barely started talking about it and wrestling with it, and IETF draft is still in flux, tho at "last call" phase. Publishers are making a concerted effort to turn this into DRM for the Web, though the previous "AI use" (inference) has been parked. See also: github.com/ietf-wg-aipr...

1) yes
2) no

There have been a few other cases mentioned on Kluwer, I think

Crawlers And Agents And Bots, Oh My: Time To Clarify Robots.txt Perplexity is an up-and-coming AI company that has broad ambition to compete with Google in the search market by providing answers to user queries with AI as its core technology.  They’ve been…

To be determined, although yes there's no inherent reason for laws to treat these prefs different from other prefs expressed in robots. Key thing to watch is whether and how it applies beyond crawlers. See also www.techdirt.com/2024/07/03/c... ; www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/age...

Yes, the relevant AI Act provisions covers GPAIs, but separate question is how TDM exception applies scraping and provision of datasets see legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/copyright-bl... + implications of IETF standards datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/dra... - hence, confusion

This letter is important. It is a careful, detailed, scholarly, and accurate explanation of the elements of the DSA and EU law that prevent the DSA from being a "censorship" law in the first place. The list of EU expert signatories is stellar. @hutko.bsky.social @joanbarata.bsky.social

The linked headline's "unexpected" is ridiculous. Every person who worked in this space (specifically, not legislators) said, correctly, that this would happen. It should be replaced with "predicted" or "standard" or "obvious." This is not an untried policy! See also FOSTA/SESTA.

The catastrophe of knowledge work waits to be beautiful again, and interesting, and modern From "Mad Men" to the AI era, the problems of underconsumption.

For those interested, some recent takes with similar vibe:
- @mattdpearce.com mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-catast...
- Rob Kenny www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-co...

New from me and @derekslater.bsky.social on @lawfaremedia.org: What History Can Teach Us About Copyright, AI, and ‘Market Floods’

yeah, fair distinction, but buildings (and power and cooling etc) don't seem trivial. If "compute" needs generally continue to grow, it will all be productively used. That said (and to your pt) - we may come up with better data centers in future, but prob not faster-than-light data transmission!

also: doesn't a lot turn on how customized the data center builds are? That is, data center companies get acquired & get integrated into 3rd party's systems - why wouldn't that be the case here? Less of a standardized/generic asset like dark fiber, but seems a lot can be re-used.

Your mileage may vary. But at a minimum, I’d challenge anyone to go see these films and think that these are ‘stealing,’ or simply regurgitating past works. / fin

Today, it’s interesting to think about how licensing systems for AI training data and outputs might be gamed in the same way, and I wish I could debate with Ernest about it like old times.

(In the LawMeme Archive, you can also find essential early @jtlg.bsky.social @mchrisriley.com & many more) 8/

This brought to mind a very specific memory for me of the late great Ernest Miller, legal scholar and blogger turned chef and a piece from a bygone era from copyright and licensing: web.archive.org/web/20040825...). 7/

It explores how the space of imagery and film is both practically infinite, and yet every image and film already exists in the sense that it can be represented as a set of mathematical coordinates. Creation is in a sense always about discovery and curation, building on what already exists. 6/

YouTube video by Jacob Adler Total Pixel Space

The grand prize winner, Total Pixel Space (youtu.be/zpAeygE4d1A?...), was the most self-reflective on the medium. 5/