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Hugh Stephens

@hughprincipal

Old Asia hand with an eye on current copyright and international trade and investment issues; Canadian West coaster.

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All this just to avoid paying for an institutional subscription, as other organizations do. It is not as if they are defending the taxpayer against a lawsuit worth millions. Just paying for the Justice lawyers coffee break time would have covered this. Bureaucracy out of control.

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If AI hijacks copyrighted content for training purposes, should AI output be copyright protected? Hypocrisy has no limits. hughstephensblog.net/2024/10/27/if-…

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The laughable Jagmeet Singh fake ads illustrate the dangers of fake content and misappropriation of personality. Next time the fakes might not be so easy to spot. hughstephensblog.net/2024/11/11/its…

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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… An important new paper exploring and highlighting the relationship between copyright, AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).

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The authors conclude that not only does AI training through LLM models constitute copyright infringement, but that the ultimate solution to allow both AI and copyright to exist is to move to a licensing model.

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hughstephensblog.net/2024/11/18/can… Anyone can register an AI generated work in Canada--because CIPO doesn't exercise any judgement over what is registered.

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Copyright infringement litigation against AI scrapers was going to come to Canada sooner or later. Now it has. hughstephensblog.net/2024/11/25/ai-…

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My review of copyright issues in 2024. AI and copyright was the overriding issue, although payment by digital platforms for news content and the integrity of paywalls was also on the agenda. hughstephensblog.net/2024/12/24/loo…

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With regard to payment for use of news media content by major US online platforms, META/Facebook called Canada's bluff and blocked news. Now Australia is calling META's bluff. If only Canada had the gumption to do the same. hughstephensblog.net/2025/01/07/dig…

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hughstephensblog.net/2025/01/13/vis… A number of copyrighted works entered the public domain on January 1 of this year. But it depends on which public domain we are talking about, and whose work. How about the works of Frida Kahlo? Read on.

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hughstephensblog.net/2025/01/18/wri… Writers. If you create your works on MS Word, did you know that Microsoft is scooping your content to train Copilot? You need to opt out to protect your content.

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hughstephensblog.net/2025/06/23/is-… The use of pirated content to train AI models is becoming an increasing precarious position for companies like META. Apart from the Anthropic judgement in the US, there are now two class action suits in Canada.