The European Copyright Society (ECS) has published its Opinion on copyright and generative AI. The Executive Summary is reproduced below and the full Opinion is available here and here. Executive Summary The ECS considers that the current development of generative artificial intelligence (AI), under the regulatory framework set up by the Directive on Copyright … Read more
The government of Thailand has cut the power supply to areas near its border with Myanmar that are known to host brutal scam compounds. These heavily-guarded fraud factories house armies of people, coerced into defrauding innocent people through bogus investment and romance baiting scams. The operators of the compounds earn billions of dollars each year … Read more
Zu den Folgen des Urteils des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zu Polizeikosten für Hochrisikoveranstaltungen Mit Urteil vom 14. Januar 2025 (1 BvR 548/22) hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht die Verfassungsmäßigkeit des § 4 Abs. 4 des Bremischen Gebühren- und Beitragsgesetzes („BremGebBeitrG“) bestätigt (vgl. dazu die Besprechung von Thorsten Koch). Verbunden damit hat das Gericht auch der Praxis den grundsätzlichen höchstrichterlichen … Read more
AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those robot voices are being made obsolete by new AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance … Read more
Transparency is an explicit normative choice made in the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. They place an obligation on the EU Institutions to ‘conduct their work as openly as possible’, take ‘decisions as openly as possible’ and ‘ensure publication of the documents relating to the legislative procedures’ with a view of guaranteeing … Read more
