The Morning After: You can’t copyright AI-created art
The US Copyright Office said so. Again.
Welcome back! The US Copyright Office (USCO) is again refusing to grant copyright for a work of art that was created by an artificial intelligence system. Dr. Stephen Thaler attempted to copyright a piece of art titled A Recent Entrance to Paradise, claiming in a second request for reconsideration of a 2019 ruling that the USCO's “human authorship” requirement was unconstitutional.
Current copyright law only offers protections to "the fruits of intellectual labor” that “are founded in the creative powers of the [human] mind,’ according to the USCO. For now, AI has the same access to copyrighting as monkeys – that’s to say, none at all.
-Mat Smith
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Trump’s social network has launched on iOS
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Donald Trump’s Twitter-like social media platform has launched on the Apple App Store. The launch will mark the former president’s return to social media. Twitter and Facebook banned Trump following the January 6th attack on the US Capitol.
People can use the network to post “Truths,” the platform’s equivalent to tweets, and it's possible to reshare posts on one's timeline to expand their reach. The executive who answered questions from beta users said the company was working on a verification policy that it would publish “in the coming weeks.”
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No, Spotify didn't pull Joe Rogan's podcast
The company says a technical problem is to blame.
Don't panic if you couldn’t play The Joe Rogan Experience over the last few days on Spotify. The streaming service has confirmed to Engadget that a "technical issue" prevented users from playing a number of Spotify podcasts, including Joe Rogan's and The Ringer shows like The Bill Simmons Podcast. It’s bad timing, following controversy over misinformation in Spotify's podcasts like Rogan’s, which has been accused of spreading and tolerating false claims about COVID-19 vaccines. The company has now addressed the technical problem and the episodes are back online.
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Watch one final ‘Elden Ring’ trailer before it arrives
The action RPG comes out on February 25th.
With less than a week before Elden Ring’s February 25th release date, publisher Bandai Namco has shared a new “Overview” trailer detailing the many systems of FromSoftware’s latest action RPG. The clip features nearly six minutes of edited gameplay footage that appears thankfully spoiler-free. In case you haven’t been paying attention, George R. R. Martin (author of Game of Thrones) helped Dark Souls and Bloodborne mastermind Hidetaka Miyazaki create the world of the game.
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