Why 'Fair Use' Cannot Justify Piracy in AI Training Cases
Explore why 'fair use' doesn't excuse piracy in the landmark Anthropic case and its implications for the future of AI and copyright law.| Hugh Stephens Blog
Explore why 'fair use' doesn't excuse piracy in the landmark Anthropic case and its implications for the future of AI and copyright law.| Hugh Stephens Blog
Explore Canada's trade challenges with the US, tariff disputes, and the precarious future of cultural policies in ongoing negotiations.| Hugh Stephens Blog
Explore the ethics of paywalls and their impact on journalism. Understand why respecting content access is crucial for quality news.| Hugh Stephens Blog
Explore the rise of bookstore tourism and its impact on independent booksellers worldwide. Discover unique booktowns and literary destinations!| Hugh Stephens Blog
Explore how piracy in Southeast Asia correlates with malware risks, threatening local economies and cultural integrity—key insights from Dr. Watters' study.| Hugh Stephens Blog
Explore Canada's recent rescinding of the Digital Services Tax and its ramifications on trade relations with the U.S. in this insightful analysis.| Hugh Stephens Blog
Discover why independent bookstores are the hottest travel trend. Explore unique literary destinations, coffee shops, and rare finds!| Hugh Stephens Blog
Photo: Author Much has been written about the decline or even the imminent demise of independent bookstores, yet most of them continue to survive, even thrive. In the same vein as the comment famou…| Hugh Stephens Blog
Image: Shutterstock.com With a general election in Canada now set for April 28, attention will be focussed south of the border to see what Donald Trump says and does next. Apart from his tiresome a…| Hugh Stephens Blog
Image: Shutterstock Canada infamously tried to take a leaf from Australia’s book in dealing with large internet platforms, like Google and Meta, that benefit from news media content without paying …| Hugh Stephens Blog
www.shutterstock.com The news that Google and the Government of Canada managed to strike a deal prior to the coming into force later this month of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, was not really a s…| Hugh Stephens Blog
Image: Shutterstock (AI assist) First, I heard it on the radio. The word “copyright” caught my attention because that’s a word seldom heard on the morning news. Then the news stories started to app…| Hugh Stephens Blog
Image: Shutterstock (with AI assist) It was inevitable. After all the lawsuits in the US (and some in the UK) pitting various copyright holders against AI development companies alleging the AI plat…| Hugh Stephens Blog
Image: Shutterstock In July, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa filed an application in the Federal Court to expunge or amend a Canadian co…| Hugh Stephens Blog
Image: Shutterstock (AI modified) Singapore already has one of the most permissive text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in copyright law found anywhere, allowing AI developers to ingest copyrighte…| Hugh Stephens Blog
Image:www.shutterstock.com There is no better way to start out the New Year, 2024, with a commentary on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and copyright. It was the big emerging issue in 2023 and is goin…| Hugh Stephens Blog
Image: Shutterstock (modified) The 2021 Revisions Back in 2021 I wrote a mixed review of the revisions brought in to update Singapore’s Copyright Act. There were some significant positives for righ…| Hugh Stephens Blog
Credit: author Thank you CIPO (Canadian Intellectual Property Office). Last week I indicated in my blog post (“Copyright Registration for AI-assisted Creations: How Much AI Input is Too Much?”) tha…| Hugh Stephens Blog
Photo: Author A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Copyright in Cottage Country, and how those wet afternoons are often occupied with cards or board games, like Scrabble, Clue or Cranium, all of whi…| Hugh Stephens Blog
Photo (c) author, 2023 For anyone who may have noticed (hopefully you did), I have not posted a blog for a couple of weeks. I am invoking that blanket summertime excuse, “I’ve been up at the cottag…| Hugh Stephens Blog
