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Palantir Loses Swiss Court Ruling as NHS and Met Police Scrutiny Grows lawyer-monthly.com/2026/06/p…
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Jun 10
Anthropic, Other Tech Giants Get Authors' Copyright Suit Split
law360.com/amp/articles/2487…
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Jun 10
Google has form with this, having forced publishers to hand over all user data or face restrictions on Google News. #GDPR
Jun 10
This is disgusting behaviour from Google.
It is using its monopoly power to try to force creatives to let it train on their work.
It is career suicide for artists not to upload to YouTube. Arguing that doing so allows Google to train AI on their videos/music - AI that competes with them - is outrageous. Whatever the Ts & Cs say.
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3/ Articles 88a and 88b need proper scrutiny, impact assessment and alignment with existing EU laws, including the #EuropeanMediaFreedomAct and #DigitalMarketsAct.
The #DigitalOmnibus should deliver real simplification — not weaken Europe’s media economy.
#EUCompetitiveness #CreativeIndustries #NewsMedia #ePrivacy #GDPR
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Jun 10
See statement from:
ACT – Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe
AER – Association of European Radios
AMC – Audience Measurement Coalition
EBU – European Broadcasting Union
EGTA – the International Trade Body of Multiplatform TV and Audio Businesses
EMMA – European Magazine Media Association
ENPA – European Newspaper Publishers Association
EPC – European Publishers Council
NME – News Media Europe
magazinemedia.eu/joint-lette…
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2/ The concern is not about avoiding responsibility. It is about ensuring that rules around data, consent and audience measurement are proportionate, risk-based and practical.
Independent media needs workable regulation to fund journalism, content and cultural diversity.
#MediaFreedom #Journalism #AudienceMeasurement #DataProtection
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Jun 10
1/ Europe’s media, broadcast and publishing sectors are right to raise concerns about the #DigitalOmnibus ahead of the #TelecomsCouncil.
Simplification should mean clearer, more workable rules — not new barriers that make it harder for media businesses to compete.
#EU #MediaPolicy #Publishing #Broadcasting
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Jun 8
Good point. I’d just add that, as usual, we wouldn’t be having this conversation if we’d enforce copyright laws at the outset. The lesson of the digital age is giving copyright exceptions to tech firms as a sort of industrial policy, just leads to bigger problems we have to sort out later. Every time! DMCA copyright safe harbor, Compulsory licensing for streaming, etc etc. Copyright law, rather than being outdated for the digital age, is the solution. More robust rights not less.
Jun 8
An AI tax that distributes AI companies’ ill-gotten gains just to the American people is an unfair and dangerous idea.
These companies are built on people’s work from all around the world. An AI tax would mean funneling wealth generated by extracting resources from other countries to US citizens. This is digital colonialism.
The *real* solution is simply to make AI companies pay for the training data they use. This means the money goes to the people whose work is actually exploited, wherever they are in the world.
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"They trust me, dumb fvcks" #zuck
Jun 8
NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it.
wired.com/story/meta-removes…
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Jun 9
"Print on demand using AI designs"
What if any copyright and intellectual property guardrails are in this Amazon offer?
theverge.com/news/945905/ama…
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Jun 4
AI data centres will use up enough clean water for 1.3 bn people by 2030, according to a United Nations report.
We can live without as many data centres, but not clean water!
time.com/article/2026/06/03/…
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Opt-out is not the correct assumption.
"In a world first, publishers will be able to opt out of their content being used to power AI features in Google search" gov.uk/government/news/cma-s… #ai #publishing #platformaccountability
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Jun 4
"89% of the advertising on those illegal streams was for unlicensed gambling operators." via/credit Lightmark.
ALT (C) Lightmark
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Jun 4
They take your content; seriously.
Jun 4
Claude 1 was trained on pirated books.
Claude 2 was trained on pirated books.
GPT-3 was trained on pirated books.
The AI industry was built on piracy.
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Jun 3
The question now again is is whether AI companies can keep using European books, journalism, film, TV, music and other creative works as training material without proper permission, transparency or payment — or whether the EU needs stronger licensing and enforcement rules.
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Netopia Post - Technology as the backbone of copyright – Netopia Spotlight: Prof Eleonora Rosati (14 January 2023) netopia.eu/netopia-spotlight…
netopia.eu/netopia-spotlight…
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