On March 12th, Eric Carter for NBC News revealed that IBM, and possibly others, are scraping social media sites for faces... to help Watson (presumably) to get really good at recognizing those faces.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921
If you have a Flickr account, your face may have been scraped. Visit the NBC link to use their search tool to find out.
There's a small detail in the piece that caught my attention. Apparently, some academics think that they can freely use photographs that are released under Creative Commons. According to this writer's understanding of the Creative Commons system, Creative Commons licensed works (or photos) may be freely used but only on condition that full and proper written attribution is published with the works or photos.
Scraping works (and apparently encouraging users to "Upload") is Ebook.Bike a seemingly scurrilous pirate site that has found a new host. It calls itself a "library", but libraries purchase the books that they loan out, and they pay for licenses to loan out ebooks. Libraries do not rip off authors, publishers and everyone in the writing and publishing ecosystem.
Members of the Authors Guild can use this form to send a takedown notice. Non-guild members might want to use this Google form to request that the links to their books are removed.
Another apparently bad actor is Open Library which tries to validate its behavior by making up a "premise" (CDL aka "Controlled Digital Lending") even though other operations that have tried to apply first sale rights to digital works have lost in court, such as ReDigi.
All the best,
Rowena Cherry
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Saturday, March 16, 2019
Sunday, January 22, 2017
What Do You Want In A Register?
What do you want in a Register... of Copyrights?
January 31st 2017 is the deadline for copyright owners and future copyright owners to opine.
https://www.research.net/r/RegisterOfCopyrights
It's free, easy, and not terribly time consuming. Please make your voices heard.
These are the questions in the 3-question survey:
1. What are the knowledge, skills, and abilities that you believe are the most important for the Register of Copyrights?
2. What should be the top three priorities for the Register of Copyrights?
3. Are there other factors that should be considered?
Optional: you may upload supporting material as a file.
That's it!
FWIW, the "Register" is a person. The position was vacated when Maria Pallante was constructively demoted. Rumor has it, Maria Pallante was too sympathetic to copyright owners, musicians, songwriters, authors of books, creators of movies and tv shows that are delivered through cable and satellite channels.
Probably, people who depend on legal sales, contracts, subscription fees, licensing and royalties for their books, movies, sound-tracks, music etc would like a copyright enthusiast in the Register's office.
Perhaps, authors and other creators would like a Register who has a history of representing or supporting copyright owners, and who is clearly supported by copyright owners, rather than one supported by pirates, copyright infringers, "permissionless innovators", or the sort of persons who tell us that "information wants to be free" and include in-copyright fiction and musical works as "information".
Some management experience would be helpful. It would also be good if they were articulate and personable, and able to testify effectively to Congress.
It would be truly remarkable and lovely if those studying the survey comments would give more weight to the replies of persons whose livelihood is affected by copyright ownership than to freeloaders and enterprises who advertise to freeloaders.
In other copyright related news, kudos to the UK and to ISPs in the UK.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/watch-pirate-tv-online-you-12463944
Copyright infringers who use Torrents and software to illegally download music, ebooks, films, sports etc will be receiving letters from their broadband providers, explaining to them that what they are doing is illegal, and recommending legal places to find what they want.
All the best,
Rowena Cherry
January 31st 2017 is the deadline for copyright owners and future copyright owners to opine.
https://www.research.net/r/RegisterOfCopyrights
It's free, easy, and not terribly time consuming. Please make your voices heard.
These are the questions in the 3-question survey:
1. What are the knowledge, skills, and abilities that you believe are the most important for the Register of Copyrights?
2. What should be the top three priorities for the Register of Copyrights?
3. Are there other factors that should be considered?
Optional: you may upload supporting material as a file.
That's it!
FWIW, the "Register" is a person. The position was vacated when Maria Pallante was constructively demoted. Rumor has it, Maria Pallante was too sympathetic to copyright owners, musicians, songwriters, authors of books, creators of movies and tv shows that are delivered through cable and satellite channels.
Probably, people who depend on legal sales, contracts, subscription fees, licensing and royalties for their books, movies, sound-tracks, music etc would like a copyright enthusiast in the Register's office.
Perhaps, authors and other creators would like a Register who has a history of representing or supporting copyright owners, and who is clearly supported by copyright owners, rather than one supported by pirates, copyright infringers, "permissionless innovators", or the sort of persons who tell us that "information wants to be free" and include in-copyright fiction and musical works as "information".
Some management experience would be helpful. It would also be good if they were articulate and personable, and able to testify effectively to Congress.
It would be truly remarkable and lovely if those studying the survey comments would give more weight to the replies of persons whose livelihood is affected by copyright ownership than to freeloaders and enterprises who advertise to freeloaders.
In other copyright related news, kudos to the UK and to ISPs in the UK.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/watch-pirate-tv-online-you-12463944
Copyright infringers who use Torrents and software to illegally download music, ebooks, films, sports etc will be receiving letters from their broadband providers, explaining to them that what they are doing is illegal, and recommending legal places to find what they want.
All the best,
Rowena Cherry
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