Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re: The fix is easy (Score 1) 59

If you read an article and write something new about what you learned, you haven't violated copyright. If you read an article, put an unauthorized copy of the article in your research notebook, and write something new then you have violated copyright. Not when you wrote something new, but before that when you put a copy in your notebook. And training an AI starts by making a local copy of training data. So developers may have violated copyright well before the training was complete.

Comment Re: Sigh time to go back to a dumb phone (Score 1) 17

Don't worry, you can still unlock your phone. The regulation applies to "remote" recognition systems: "notion of remote biometric identification system as used in this Regulation should be defined functionally, as an AI system intended for the identification of natural persons at a distance through the comparison of a personâ(TM)s biometric data with the biometric data contained in a reference database, and without prior knowledge whether the targeted person will be present and can be identified"

Comment Re: Are they completely out of touch? (Score 1) 79

You're just proving the point. Apple is suing over a logo, not just a word. AmEx / TMobile / UPS trademarked colors that only apply to their own industry. Same is true of King and Bethesda. In other words, Costco can still sell Apple Pie Filling, Blue Note records is not threatened by AmEx, and Crush can still sell soda. Whereas Snap is potentially threatening all of its competitors, who also sell spectacles. The two are not the same.

Comment Re: Hang On... Legal Precedent... (Score 1) 86

A warrant gives the government authority to sieze things, and sieze necessarily implies "take away". While it's true that usually seizure affects physical things like computers, intangible things are not immune to seizure. For instance, the government routinely seizes domain names. While it's true that seizure is often used for gathering evidence (where copying would be sufficient), it is also used for public safety as in this case. For instance when the TSA seizes your water bottle they are not gathering evidence against you, they ostensibly doing it to protect the public.

Slashdot Top Deals

What is algebra, exactly? Is it one of those three-cornered things? -- J.M. Barrie

Working...