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Sports broadcasting is a powerhose of world and EU exports. —  Live sports advertising is set to become a more than $20 billion business in 2027, growing far faster than the broader television market adweek.com/convergent-tv/…

Whack-a-mole piracy enforcement limited in the UK. alliance4creativity.com/blog/mpa-appla…

@ednewtonrex ....and yet, vatican.va/roman_curia/in…

It is deeply disappointing that the Pope’s Encyclical Letter on AI didn’t mention the theft that most generative AI models are built on. What happened to ‘Thou shalt not steal’? We should not stay silent on - and therefore, by omission, tacitly accept - the biggest theft of creative work in history, simply because it has already happened. We should call it what it is, and hold the people behind it to account. Otherwise the cycle of theft will continue, with this technology and the next.

“Copyright Reform Is Where Commissions Go to Die” netopia.eu/copyright-refo… #copyright

@NetopiaEU Of course, Google/YouTube are in this AI game too. “For more than 2 decades, we’ve built systems that help rights holders manage & control their copyrighted content…AI is the latest frontier & our approach remains the same.” —YouTube spokesman Jack Malon nytimes.com/2026/05/21/boo…

@TheRegister A spine.....They have discovered a spine!

London's police asked Big Tech for comms data over 700,000 times last year theregister.com/databases/2026…

@hemphlev @Romudeth No such thing as Fair Use in the EU.

@Romudeth Fair use

I don't understand why there isn't a bigger push to sue these companies that use AI to steal others' work. It's the biggest IP theft in history, yet they get away with it. It's absolutely insane that they just get away with it.

@DCNorg So fines didn't work?

Ofcom’s incoming chair has vowed to take on the “tech bros”, as he conceded there was now a perception the regulator had been complacent and slow over concerns about online safety. theguardian.com/media/2026/may…

@ednewtonrex With a flagrant disregard for Rights like the tech giants before, UK Sovereign AI Fund lacks #platformaccountability.

I submitted an FOI request, and found out that the UK's Sovereign AI Fund doesn't check whether the companies it backs adhere to copyright law. Sov AI's Chair, James Wise, has said publicly that they will "only invest in companies that follow [copyright law]" - but we now know they don't check this. They may be tempted to say that asking companies specific questions on copyright would be overkill. But it would not be. Copyright is one of the most contentious legal issues around AI. We know that many AI companies exploit copyrighted work without permission, and it is widely believed that some British companies skirt the edges of UK law on this. This is an issue of critical importance, and ignoring it risks funneling public funds to exploitative companies. Sov AI should specifically ask companies whether they adhere to copyright law before investing public money in them. But they should go further - they should ask whether the company trains on copyrighted work without a licence. These are different questions, since you could potentially adhere to UK law while training on copyrighted work in the US. Asking these questions would add virtually no overhead to Sov AI's investment process, but would filter out companies that exploit copyrighted work without permission. If the UK really wants to promote responsible AI, as the AI minister has said it does, Sov AI should add these checks asap.

La streaming fraud è una minaccia economica e una truffa ai fan di musica: queste operazioni hanno già sottratto milioni di dollari ai legittimi autori, artisti e label e con l'AI il fenomeno si è ulteriormente industrializzato. Ecco come intervenire ⬇️ repubblica.it/tecnologia/202…

@ednewtonrex Google, Meta, OpenAI et al. are the dark web.

Scraping websites and having AI summarize them, so that no one visits the websites, is theft. Training AI on videos, so that it can make new videos that compete with them, is theft. We are witnessing the largest theft of creative work in history.

What is happening here....In a word, is: theft.

Where Google and YouTube trampled before, AI has taken over.

@MatthewKeysLive @internetarchive That's not an option, and to that idea, the AI companies are not paying for that, whether it's a fresh or older article. IA are being scraped by AI. A proxy for intellectual property, these.

Publishers are worried that the @internetarchive makes it easy to circumvent paywalls. But there is an easy solution to this: Limit scraping to articles that are older than a certain amount of time (two weeks? one month?).

@pnw_adventuring Well done for supporting and championing authors, editors and their publishers

Yes, and this is EXACTLY why I collect as many books which are rare and/or becoming rare, usually about local history and history in general. It’s a lot easier to rewrite history when you take away everyone’s access to old literature where history is recorded

@HanaaTameez @internetarchive @decka227 As they should!

NEW: More than 340 local U.S. news outlets are limiting @internetarchive's access to their journalism. @decka227 and I have mapped out what at looks like across the country:

@nickitruesdell This is not censorship. You have been molly-coddled.

Three reasons a home library is vital to western civilization: 1. Internet censorship 2. Changeable and vanishing eBooks 3. Artificial intelligence If hundreds of homes preserved the good books in print, we would not have to worry about losing our documented history.

@internetarchive @waybackmachine Tell AI companies to stop using your archive to illegally train models ... start there.

Tell the publishers to stop blocking @waybackmachine 🚫🕳️ savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

#footballstream #SportsPiracy Pirate Fire Stick and TV box users served notice. Sky had launched civil action against Revolut Bank UAB, after 304 subscribers had used the banking app to pay resellers of pirated content. msn.com/en-nz/news/oth…

From online disruption to real‑world action: UEFA evolves its enforcement strategy against piracy alliance4creativity.com/blog/from-onli…