Creative Commons debuts CC Signals, a framework that lets dataset holders detail how machines can or cannot reuse their content, such as for training AI models
Nonprofit Creative Commons, which spearheaded the licensing movement that allows creators to share their works while retaining copyright, is now preparing for the AI era.
Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging it accessed Reddit 100K+ times after saying it had stopped; Reddit has reached user data licensing deals with OpenAI and Google
For a while it looked like Reddit was going to build a big business selling access to user data to LLM companies but besides Google they didn't get many takers it seems. — So here come the lawyers. ...
Q&A with Harvard law professor and Creative Commons co-founder Lawrence Lessig on AI's impact on social media and free speech, copyright use, TikTok, and more
After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you'd think about AI and TikTok … Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host . LinkedIn: Andrei Nicolae Cuta , Rick Lane , and Paul ...
Stack Overflow CEO says the company plans to charge large AI developers for access to the 50M questions and answers on its service as soon as mid-2023
The programmer Q&A site joins Reddit in demanding compensation when its data is used to train algorithms and ChatGPT-style bots Mastodon: @paul@social.paulkedrosky.com . Tweets: @nwaisb , @jason , @ev...
a16z releases a set of free “Can't Be Evil” licenses for NFTs, inspired by Creative Commons, available on GitHub
Andreessen Horowitz's crypto arm is releasing a free licensing system, aiming to help the NFT sector fulfil its “economic potential.”
An interview with NFT project Loot creator Dom Hofmann, who says it still has ~200 developers despite the project's market cap falling from $180M+ to under $6M
Loot's Dom Hofmann on outlasting the hype cycle, public-domain video games, and why Creative Commons is the future Tweets: @yoda , @caseynewton , @alexhern , and @caseynewton Tweets: Drew Olanoff / @y...
Intel, Mozilla, and Creative Commons join the Open COVID Pledge, an effort to temporarily make IP freely available to anyone developing tech to fight COVID-19
A consortium of organizations including Intel, Mozilla, and Creative Commons have joined the Open COVID Pledge …
Mozilla, Creative Commons, and Coil announce a $100M grant over five years to developers using Web Monetization, a proposed browser standard for micropayments
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Mozilla, Creative Commons, and Coil announce a $100M grant over five years to developers using Web Monetization, a proposed browser standard for micropayments
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Microsoft has pulled its facial recognition database, MS Celeb, which contained 10M+ images of ~100K individuals scraped under the Creative Commons license
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