Would you steal the font for a campaign "You wouldn't steal a car"?

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language ( bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/… )

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded ( web.archive.org/web/2005122320… ).

source: fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfu…

#piracy #copyright #fail #problem #font #copy #news #campaign

#Ubisoft holds firm in The Crew #lawsuit: You don’t own your #video #games

source: polygon.com/gaming/555469/ubis…

Ubisoft has made it clear, #lawyers claimed, that when you buy a copy of The Crew, you’re merely buying a limited access #license.

#game #gamer #consumer #customer #drm #copyright #justice #news #problem #protest

Ubisoft holds firm in The Crew lawsuit: You don’t own your video games

Ubisoft is being sued by players over its shutdown of The Crew. Here’s how the lawsuit is going.

^{Nicole Carpenter (Polygon)}

Here's another article by @brianmerchant : bloodinthemachine.com/p/openai…
"AI giants are indeed eating away at the livelihoods and dignity of working artists, and this devouring, appropriating, and automation of the production of art, of culture, at a scale truly never seen before, should not be underestimated as a menace"

#AI #OpenAI #StudioGhibli #art #artists #scraping #copyright #copyrightInfringement #culture #billionaires

OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself

Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is "disgusted" by AI.

^{Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)}

‘Andor’ creator won’t make scripts public due to #AI: ‘Why help the f-ing #robots?’

source: celebitchy.com/914284/andor_cr…

I don’t think all AI is bad, but I do think without #regulation and a solution to its negative environmental impact, it’s a dangerous, slippery slope that needs to be addressed now.

#entertainment #book #copyright #starwars #andor #technology #future #problem #politics #news

The Atlantic has a search tool to see if Microsoft uses your work without permission to train its LLM. Looks like they used one of my books from years ago but not the more recent self published ones.

theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

#llm #GrandTheftAutocomplete #copyright

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

^{Alex Reisner (The Atlantic)}

#Amazon's #eBooks lose #USB #copy function

source: reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/1…

So Amazon wants you to have to buy all eBooks again with a new eBook reader. Nice new #profit in digital #capitalism.

#DRM #Copyright #fail #consumer #customer #economy #digital #news #ebook #hardware #software #problem

#Meta leeched 82 terabytes of pirated #books to train its #Llama #AI, documents reveal

Source: cybernews.com/tech/meta-leeche…

#torrent #piracy #Problem #copyright #technology #justice #economy #news #usa #bigtech #ethics

The @internetarchive team is inviting artists of all skill levels to celebrate the upcoming Public Domain Day by creating 2–3 minute short films!

"This contest offers a chance to explore and reimagine the creative treasures entering the public domain."

blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/20…

via mastodon.archive.org/@brewster…

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #copyright #InternetArchive #film #filmmakers #artists

on OpenAI's "our whole business model is yoinking copyrighted material", and some arguments i've been hearing recently from AI advocates about rolling back the scope of copyright law

youtube.com/watch?v=sLYzYWOPJb…

#OpenAI #AI #copyright

On Copyright and OpenAI

On OpenAI's "our whole business model is yoinking copyrighted material", and some arguments I've been hearing recently from AI advocates about reforming copy...

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