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Carole Tongue

@caroletongue

| Ex Labour MEP Lon East | Advising authors, artists, performers, creators, TUs. IPR. Forever European | Chair of @UKCCD & @EUCoalitions 🐐sex based rights

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Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Still 🤯 that there those who'd probably describe themselves as sensible grown ups arguing that it's infeasible to operate single-sex services, spaces, and sports in society, so let's effectively jack in Equality Act protections for women. Gender really scrambles brains.

Ed Newton-Rex (@ednewtonrex) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Unions in Quebec representing 25,000 creatives are demanding that lawmakers treat creators fairly with respect to generative AI. Demands include: - No copyright exceptions for gen AI training - Full data transparency - Labelling of AI content 🙌 lartesthumain.com/en/

Unions in Quebec representing 25,000 creatives are demanding that lawmakers treat creators fairly with respect to generative AI.

Demands include:
- No copyright exceptions for gen AI training
- Full data transparency
- Labelling of AI content

🙌

lartesthumain.com/en/
Ed Newton-Rex (@ednewtonrex) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Country musician Tony Justice files class action lawsuits against Udio & Suno, accusing them of "willful copyright infringement on a massive scale".

Country musician Tony Justice files class action lawsuits against Udio & Suno, accusing them of "willful copyright infringement on a massive scale".
European Coalitions (@eucoalitions) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎉 Our chair Carole Tongue and members (UK Coalition & Coalition_fr) joined the celebrations of the 2005 UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 Convention. This instrument is a cornerstone for safeguarding 🌍 #culturaldiversity 🎭 that must be protected and promoted more than ever in the age of #GenAI !

🎉 Our chair <a href="/CaroleTongue/">Carole Tongue</a> and members (UK Coalition &amp; <a href="/coalition_fr/">Coalition_fr</a>) joined the celebrations of the 2005 <a href="/UNESCO/">UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳</a> Convention. This instrument is a cornerstone for safeguarding 🌍 #culturaldiversity 🎭 that must be protected and promoted more than ever in the age of #GenAI !
UN Human Rights Council (@un_hrc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Erasing women and women-specific language and needs based on their sex is not only wrong, but also demeaning, regressive and constitutes one of the worst forms of violence that women and girls can experience," Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls Reem Alsalem told the United Nations Human Rights Council. #HRC59

Ed Newton-Rex (@ednewtonrex) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is big: 10 authors have filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for allegedly training AI models on pirated books. They cite evidence Microsoft trained on Books3, a 200,000-book dataset known to derive from pirated sources. Full complaint: bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop…

This is big: 10 authors have filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for allegedly training AI models on pirated books.

They cite evidence Microsoft trained on Books3, a 200,000-book dataset known to derive from pirated sources.

Full complaint: bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop…
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Powerful open letter today from a group of authors to their publishers, asking those publishers to reject the replacement technology of AI. "Every time a prompt is entered into AI, the language that bot uses to respond was created in part through the synthesis of art that we,

Powerful open letter today from a group of authors to their publishers, asking those publishers to reject the replacement technology of AI.

"Every time a prompt is entered into AI, the language that bot uses to respond was created in part through the synthesis of art that we,
Ed Newton-Rex (@ednewtonrex) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the same week that a judge said AI training often won’t be fair use, and that all rights holders need to do to win lawsuits is show the effect on their market… … a new AI band gets 400,000 monthly listeners and shows up in people’s Spotify Discover Weekly. Market effects

In the same week that a judge said AI training often won’t be fair use, and that all rights holders need to do to win lawsuits is show the effect on their market…

… a new AI band gets 400,000 monthly listeners and shows up in people’s Spotify Discover Weekly.

Market effects
Carole Tongue (@caroletongue) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Driving to Ukraine with humanitarian supplies. #crowdfunding FundRazr Support and Retweet fundrazr.com/d2Zm43?ref=tw_… Thank you for donating to this important endeavour !

Carole Tongue (@caroletongue) 's Twitter Profile Photo

HI dear Florence Eshalomi MP 🙋 We must go further and faster with our relationship with Europe. Collaboration, alignment, and exchange. Otherwise, we risk extending the cost-of-living crisis and enabling Farage in 2029. #HeyMP Best for Britain hey-mp.uk/hey/Florence-E…

The Nobel Prize (@nobelprize) 's Twitter Profile Photo

AN URGENT MESSAGE FROM THE NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE REGARDING NARGES MOHAMMADI The Norwegian Nobel Committee is alarmed by reports of serious threats against Narges Mohammadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023. Ms. Mohammadi was awarded the prize for her fight

AN URGENT MESSAGE FROM THE NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE REGARDING NARGES MOHAMMADI

The Norwegian Nobel Committee is alarmed by reports of serious threats against Narges Mohammadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023.

Ms. Mohammadi was awarded the prize for her fight
Will Hutton (@williamnhutton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Housing wealth is strangling Britain and creating indefensible intergenerational inequality. Syed is right. Tory MP Tom Tugendhat has argued similarly. A taboo is being challenged. The property-owning class should take a big hit. Yes, that includes me thetimes.com/article/9fafa6…

European Coalitions (@eucoalitions) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🇺🇸📈 The US threatens 30% tariffs on EU goods, ECCD warns: Culture is not a bargaining chip. 🎭 Europe must not trade away its cultural & digital rules that protect creators & diversity. #CulturalDiversity #DigitalSovereignty #TradePolicy To learn more: shorturl.at/ZixLV

Carole Tongue (@caroletongue) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yes and No Polly. Alternative vote can also produce disproportionate outcomes. Better is constituency system with top up list. ⁦Keir Starmer⁩ ⁦Angela Rayner⁩ ⁦⁦Florence Eshalomi MP⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…