Humans are smart. This makes us special, but not that special. White rats have a higher brain to body weight ratio than people do. As for intelligence in other animals? They might be smarter than you think.
Ars Technica – Law and Disorder
- Senate report shows Apple avoided billions in taxes on foreign income
- Brocade and A10 settle patent case one hour before a jury hears it
- Chinese hackers who breached Google reportedly targeted classified data
- Larry Page wants you to stop worrying and let him fix the world
- Prenda lawyer gets kicked off 9th Circuit case
The Art Law Blog
- "So while Cariou v. Prince can rightly be considered a victory for appropriation art to some extent ..."
- Richard Dorment on the Warhol Foundation
- Six of one
- "Since the full price of artworks donated to charity are not tax deductible for the artist, new records are a major incentive for their participation."
- Much Better Than The Impractical Advice Panel
Posts Tagged ‘ creativity ’
Termination Rights – The Record Industry is Bracing for a Fight
Because the industry charged artists for everything, that put the artists on the line as "owners" of the work and its production, which means that now when they're looking to terminate old licensing agreements.
The Law of Artificial Intelligence – Mechanistic Insight
The mechanistic approach that the law takes toward the creation, production, and incentivization of intellectual property has more in common, in many ways, with the rules that govern a machine’s operation - “real” human thought and behavior is a lot more erratic.
Word of the Week – Artificial Intelligence
To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.
Artistic Automatons – Legally, Man or Machine?
Machines ARE the ones making the "innovative leap", and the true authors and inventors. Either that, or the law has such a simplistic conception of what creativity is that it makes people operate in a framework which is only suitable for automatons.
Cameras Can’t Claim Copyright (But Photographers Can!)
Difficulties arise when attempting to determine the boundary line between mechanical, random, or natural processes, and instances in which the slight intervention of a human agent results in the production of a copyrightable work.
Where Do the Best Brains Come From?
Where do the best brains come from? Inquiring minds want to know. And a few Zombies have emailed me with questions, as well.
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