AI & IP LAW

Uefa orders Scotland fans to remove celebration videos from X European football's governing body claimed clips of fans cheering Scotland's World Cup qualification in front of TV screens breached copyright.

It’s well known that people withhold their licence fee (depriving the BBC of revenue to line UEFA’s pockets) because they know there will be some short, distant, poor quality clips of some small part of a game in the background of some other video somewhere. Right UEFA?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sky Sports axes 'sexist' TikTok channel Halo after three days The female-focused TikTok channel was dubbed

“Could someone please explain the problem here, in boy terms?” Yeah, sounds ridiculous when you put it like that, so how anyone thought this was a good idea is beyond ditsy little me www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I tried and they were awful. Not even groaners. Just absolutely awful.

Free AI training for adults in West Midlands growth plans An AI Academy is proposed for the West Midlands in a joint project, says mayor Richard Parker.

Interesting idea www.bbc.com/news/article... Free AI training for adults in West Midlands growth plans

I’ll reserve judgement until it’s told me a few jokes 😁

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

🧐 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anyone who doesn't like Stan Rogers (and especially Between the Breaks) is a strange cat indeed

Why Big Tech cannot agree on artificial general intelligence It has been tipped as the next big breakthrough out of Silicon Valley, but is it a scientific goal — or a marketing buzzword?

I have an allergic reaction to any promise to "turbocharge" anything - it either oversells capabilities or underestimates our ability to use otherwise useful tools for fundamentally counterproductive purposes - but this is worth a read www.ft.com/content/d20e... #ai #AGI

Big Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AI Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party

Interesting. Should states be banned from regulating AI if it means no regulation at all (in the US) for 10 yrs? Or should they be free to do so unless the federal government pre-empts it? Also, shout out to the term "tech bro-ligarchs"😆https://www.ft.com/content/52ae52f1-531e-462f-898f-e9f86b3b1869

AI can spontaneously develop human-like communication, study finds Groups of large language model artificial intelligence agents can adopt social norms as humans do, report says

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Loving the hold music for the LSE Live AI and IP in the creative industries event. Almost a shame to interrupt it with the main event

That’ll be @jjn1.bsky.social

Creative industries are among the UK’s crown jewels – and AI is out to steal them | John Naughton The tech firms’ efforts to change copyright laws and gain free access to intellectual property is patently wrong

Really like John Naughton’s pieces and this thoughtful consideration of AI and IP is no exception www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on AI and copyright law: big tech must pay | Editorial Editorial: Elton John, Paul McCartney and thousands of other artists have called for protection from data crawling. The government must listen

The irony of the complaints about DeepSeek is of course worth discussing, but I wonder how we move on without being better at nuance and compromise
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’ Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up

So, about that whole “unleashing” AI announcement… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it? | Arwa Mahdawi Low-quality ‘slop’ generated by AI is crowding out genuine humans across the internet, but instead of regulating it, platforms such as Facebook are positively encouraging it. Where does this end, asks...

AI trained to any material degree on AI-output, without being able to distinguish it as inorganic, doesn’t end well. It makes sense that platforms want posters to identify AI works as such even when it’s obvious to us, as this @theguardian.com piece hints at
www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

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