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TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Mashable: Disney’s ‘Steamboat Willie’ YouTube copyright claim is back, this time for audio. “Disney has once again demonetized a third-party Steamboat Willie video, after previously remonetizing it and dropping its copyright claim against it. This time taking issue with the video’s audio.”
Boing Boing: Microsoft to take workhorse app WordPad out back after 28 years. “WordPad, the free word processor included with Windows, is to be discontinued presently. In a blog post about the next preview build of the Windows 11 operating system, the company snuck in the news under ‘Changes and Improvements’ after announcing new features.”
Search Engine Roundtable: Google Reiterates: We Have Changes Coming To Deal With Search Spam. “Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, posted this morning that the search company has changes coming to better deal with the recent flux of search spam we’ve all been seeing in the search results. He said it just sometimes takes time to fully put these changes into place but they are on their way.”
USEFUL STUFF
Tom’s Guide: This Chrome extension saves downloads directly to Google Drive — I really wish I’d found it sooner. “If you regularly save images or files from the web, which you then upload to Google Drive for use across multiple devices, there’s an extension that helps you completely cut out the middle steps — that is to say, it removes the need to save files to your physical device storage and then upload them to Google Drive. You simply save the image or screenshot directly to a folder on your Google Drive.”
MakeUseOf: Buying Tickets Online? Avoid These 4 Ticketmaster Scams. “The latest and hottest gigs sell out almost instantly, with people willing to shell out big bucks to buy other people’s tickets. At the center of that is Ticketmaster, the ticket company most folks love to hate. Unfortunately, scammers use Ticketmaster to separate fans from their hard-earned money, but you can learn how to spot and avoid Ticketmaster scams.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Verge: OpenAI’s news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year. “The Information reports that OpenAI offers between $1 million and $5 million a year to license copyrighted news articles to train its AI models. That’s one of the first indications of how much AI companies plan to pay for licensed material. It sits alongside a recent report saying Apple is looking to partner with media companies to use content for AI training and is offering at least $50 million over a multiyear period for data. The Verge reached out to OpenAI for comment on the numbers.”
Indian Express: Why PM Modi’s Lakshadweep visit has the Maldives’ social media and govt officials up in arms against India. “All it took was a series of posts on X this weekend from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, promoting tourism in Lakshadweep islands, to set off a social media war between Maldivian politicians, government officials and Indian social media users.” The Maldives’ side is some of the craziest social media behavior I’ve ever seen by a national government representative. And I’m American!
SECURITY & LEGAL
Reuters: EU’s Vestager to meet Big Tech CEOs in the US next week. “EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager will meet the chief executives of Apple, Alphabet, Broadcom and Nvidia in the United States next week, her communications advise said on Friday.”
CBS 12 Florida: New Florida bill aims to ban children under 16 from social media. “On Friday, Republican Florida Representative Tyler Sirois introduced House Bill 1. The proposed bill will require social media platforms to ban minors under 16 years of age in Florida from creating a new account.”
Los Angeles Public Press: The LAPD wants access to 10,000 cameras across the city. “The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is in the process of creating a brand new surveillance program that will centralize live video feeds from security cameras (including private homeowner cameras) from all across the City of LA if its budget for the next fiscal year is approved by the LA City Council and Mayor Karen Bass.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
The Guardian: Twitter changed my life for good. But the platform I loved no longer exists. “Nobody is entirely immune to the narcissism that social media encourages. It takes time and research, as well as intellectual and emotional discipline, to introduce nuance and factual information into a conversation. Balanced analysis is hard; snark and outrage take a lot less effort. Everybody enjoys being praised and nobody likes being corrected in public, with the result that there is a real risk that even the most seasoned analysts or journalists start worrying more about their own reputation or ‘brand’ than about the issues they are writing about.”
Internet Archive Blog: Mickey’s Bad Day, or, The Ecosystem. “As a variety of slasher movies, costumes, crypto tokens, fan-fiction creations and general meme images of Steamboat Willie cascade into the first parts of 2024, it’s worth noting how the entire situation will feel unusual or a controversial subject to a number of folks. What it is, however, is a too-long-delayed part of a natural process of works and copyright. The implementation of universal involuntary copyright that then lasts longer than the vast majority of human lifetimes means a disconnect, a vast gulf between the life of creative works and when they become a part of culture at large in anything other than a consumption relationship.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 8, 2024 at 06:51PM
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