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Think you’re law abiding? These days it’s becoming easier and easier for Internet professionals to run afoul of the law without even realizing it, and the First Amendment isn’t what it used to be. Creative types and web professionals have become the new criminal masterminds. The Copyright Wars are alive and well and now they’re…
Intellectual property law has grown like a cancer,[1] with copyright growing on creative content to produce a tangled, dysfunctional knot of proprietary rights that eat away at what could be a robust system of incentives and digital production. (How about you ask how I really feel?) Which is one of my main reasons for obsessing about copyright…
The behavior of insects and other simple life forms are programmed from their genes, which learn and evolve over time. Humans and animals with more complex brains can individually learn from their experiences. So while weak AI machines are made to act human, strong AI machines are based on biological processes in order to gain…
All the pieces are out there. Self-managing systems. Autonomatons. Artificially intelligent creativity. Bots and spiders crawling over the web to gather and process information. Different paradigms that incorporate pseudorandomness, machine learning, and/or program machines to behave like people. ARE there digital entities out there now that call into question everything we know about authorship and…
At what point will a program make a break from its human origins and become something independent and just plain weird? While self-aware artificially intelligent robots may still be pretty far off, there are some very strange things going on in experimental computing. As Dorothy might say, “I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”…
The broad inclusiveness of the current copyright regime is justified by its purported benefit to the creative class, yet the broad inalienable rights create a “tragedy of the anticommons” wherein the presence of too many rights-holders is frustrating the outcome that would maximize utility for society.
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