Google made $100 billion last quarter, but wants the US government to bail it out for stealing copyrighted content to train its AI.
Chamber of Progress asks for blank check for big tech
Google-backed Chamber of Progress wants Al training declared “fair use.
That move would devalue publishers’ content, erode licensing opportunities, and aive tech platforms a free pass or using creative works without consent.
November 6, 2025 | By Chris Pedigo, SVP Government|
Affairs – DCN | X @Pedigo_Chris
@jason_kint Nov 6
A Google-backed shop (Chamber of Progress) has put into overdrive, or desperation, its push for a carve-out to allow its clients to break copyright law. Nice to see DCN’s own Chris Pedigo take this on directly for the absurdity it represents. And he explains fair use. 1/2
The Copyright Office report yesterday affirms what our members – and the broader creative community – have long contended: that the wholesale ingestion of copyrighted works to train gen AI models without consent or compensation is NOT fair use under current law. https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-3-Generative-AI-Training-Report-Pre-Publication-Version.pdf
Now that they have fired the Congressional Librarian, expect The Copyright Office to be infiltrated in defiance of this soon.
You’ve probably heard that Mickey Mouse is moving into the public domain in 2024. What does that mean for reusing & remixing this iconic character in new works of art? Well, it’s complicated…
@lessig
Almost 25 years ago, Eric Eldred filed a lawsuit to invalidate the latest copyright term extension — and thereby achieve what is now almost certain to happen in 3 weeks. Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle | Duke University School of Law https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/
Interested in the works of art & culture that will enter the public domain in 2024? 🎶🎞️📚
https://twitter.com/internetarchive
Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering millions of free books, movies & audio files, plus billions of saved web pages in the @waybackmachine
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OF COURSE THE REPUBLICANS WOULD STEAL THE MONEY MEANT FOR THE PEOPLE AND DIVERT IS TO THEIR FRIENDS WHO RUN PRIVATE JAILS FOR THEIR OWN POCKETS. With the government paying private prison operators about $23,000 per year per inmate (keep in mind, the minimum wage is $15,000 per year), it’s a lucrative business.
Private Prisons in the United States
Corrections Corporation of America, a $1.8 billion private prison corporation now known as CoreCivic, Terrell Don Hutto ran a cotton plantation the size of Manhattan. 2015 Who Owns Private Prison Stock? Pennsylvania Correctional Industries (PCI) is a Bureau of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) that employs inmates to produce a variety of items that are available for sale to non-profit organizations and government entities located throughout Pennsylvania.
FACT: $2,000 is much better than $600.
FACT: Neither are remotely adequate.
In a fair and just country, people would get $3,000/month, retroactive to March, and debts cancelled.
Also, all net worth above $10 million would be taxed at 100%. We beat fascism by being ANTI-FASCIST.
1 RCM Inc. [NASDAQ:RCM], one of the nation’s largest medical debt collection companies, has been hit in a ransomware attack.Formerly known as Accretive Health Inc., Chicago-based R1 RCM brought in revenues of $1.18 billion in 2019. The company has more than 19,000 employees and contracts with at least 750 healthcare organizations nationwide. According to Trend Micro, Defray usually is spread via booby-trapped Microsoft Office documents sent via email.
#Accretive Health, #Defray ransomware, 3proofpoint, #R1 #RCM ransomware,
Phishing Emails Used to Deploy KONNI Malware https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-227a
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has observed cyber actors using emails containing a Microsoft Word document with a malicious Visual Basic Application (VBA) macro code to deploy KONNI malware. KONNI is a remote administration tool (RAT) used by malicious cyber actors to steal files, capture keystrokes, take screenshots, and execute arbitrary code on infected hosts.
NO ONE IS BETTER AT MANUFACTURING MEDICINE THAN PFIZER
400M doses = 200M full vaccinations. 2 dose regime for Pfizer and Moderna.
It’s official: Pfizer-BioNTech reach deal to supply 100M doses of #covid19 vaccine to the US for $1.95B, delivery by July 31.
“NEW: Draft legislation from @SenThomTillis reforming the DMCA is out today. And it includes a “notice-and-staydown” provision, which the tech industry is already gearing up to oppose once the fight over online copyright starts in earnest next year. ‘Notice-and-stay-down’ set to be sticking point in new online-piracy fight Sen. Thom Tillis unveiled a sweeping plan to reform the Digital Millennium Copyright Act—and one provision in particular will be a bitter pill for the tech industry to swallow. bill text
SEDITION TREASON
Laurence Tribe @Tribelaw
What would the Framers say about an American president who lets a hostile power put bounties on the heads of our soldiers, looks the other way while that power wages war on our government agencies, and spends his time attempting a coup rather than fighting a pandemic?
Treason 18 U.S. Code 2381 “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies giving them aid and comdfort withting the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall ve imprisoned not less than five years and fined… and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
CBS NEWS headline DOES NOT SAY HIS NAME ERIK PRINCE – Trump pardons Blackwater global mercenary force led by Erik F’ing Prince involved in Baghdad massacre
ROBERT REICH Millennials own less than 5% of all US wealth. In 1989, when baby boomers were the same age, they owned 21% of all US wealth. Young people aren’t going broke because they’re buying avocado toast. They’re going broke because the economy is rigged against them.
On Dec 18th, FinCEN announced a proposed rule that will require collection of personal information for transactions of >$3,000 sent to self-hosted wallets. https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2020-28437.pdf
You either keep the bitcoin info on your own Wallet
Or you allow someone else to keep the info instead
You should always keep your own info cause then you own it.
► ► A “wallet” is either an address or a collection of addresses mathematically derived from a equation everyone uses but with different variables.
► ► It’s a string of numbers.
► ►You either possess the variables or you do not.
Trump is contractually prohibited from living at Mar a Lago. Therefore, he cannot be a Florida resident with Mar a Lago as his primary address. Er go, Trump committed voter fraud.
Buried in pandemic aid: $200 billion in tax cuts, largely for the richest. How about instead of pumping trillions into an endless war machine, we provide our people with actual security: food, shelter, and health care?
China-Based Executive at U.S. Telecommunications Company @ZOOM Charged with Disrupting Video Meetings Commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre
Defendant Coordinated with the People’s Republic of China to Target Dissidents and Disrupt Meetings #natsec #counterintelligence #insider #insiderthreat
Former Zoom Employee Wanted by the FBI for Support to Chinese Government He was a 16 yr veteran of Zoom who was the liaison between the company and China’s security and intelligence services “Not surprisingly, social media monitoring was used to identify individuals who were hosting the #Zoom calls.” China’s #MSS asked Jin to keep meetings open. This ensured the MSS would be able to “obtain additional details on meeting participants.”
THEY WILL BACK EACH OTHER TO SUPPORT FACEBOOK BECAUSE NONE OF THEM WANT TO HAVE ANTI TRUST LAW BREAK THEM UP – THEY ALL NEED TO GET BROKEN UP.
THE ETHICS OF BROGRAMMERS
Like the guards at concentration camps who thought they weren’t in charge, the brogrammers whose code is used to do atrocious things against the world for profit will also go to jail.
Unlike governments which are bound by international laws and diplomatic norms, private companies like the Israeli firm are only motivated by profit.
THEY WILL ALL GO TO JAIL
NSO Group’s actions should not be granted legal immunity
The social network took the Israeli firm to court after alleging that the latter exploited a vulnerability in WhatsApp which helped its clients spy on over 1400 users globally. It’s believed that the bug or similar ones may also have been used to help Saudi Arabian officials spy on murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi and his former boss, Jeff Bezos. NSO Group has argued that its tools are only ever used for legitimate law enforcement purposes, and that, as it sells exclusively to governments, it should benefit from the “sovereign immunity” that means nation states can’t be taken to court.
Comcast steps in it by sending copyright threat to file-sharing news site
By Jeff John Roberts
Aug 21 2013
<http://gigaom.com/2013/08/21/comcast-steps-in-it-by-sending-copyright-threat-to-file-sharing-news-site/>
SUMMARY:
Lawyers for Comcast are making the firm look bad for no good reason by issuing outlandish copyright threats to a news site that reports on copyright issues.
This one’s a doozy even by the standards of dumb legal campaigns: Comcast is threatening to sue TorrentFreak, a news site about copyright and file-sharing, for publishing a document related to an on-going court case.
The document in question is a one-page fax — we’ve reproduced it below — in which Comcast provides a defense lawyer with subscriber information as part of the legal discovery process. (The larger case relates to a copyright-trolling operation in which a law firm is accused of creating a “honey pot” by uploading copyrighted shows, and then turning around and suing those who download them.)
According to TorrentFreak, attorneys for a “brand protection” agency representing Comcast are warning the site that it has five days to remove their client’s “intellectual property” or face a series of nasty legal measures.
This request is asinine for a number of reasons: first, if the fax is indeed a court document, then it is part of the public record and not subject to copyright protection. And, in any case, TorrentFreak is a news outlet that is protected by a fair use reporting privilege in the case of a genuine news story – which this clearly is.
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You’ve probably heard that Mickey Mouse is moving into the public domain in 2024. What does that mean for reusing & remixing this iconic character in new works of art? Well, it’s complicated…
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FACT: $2,000 is much better than $600.