LAW360 Friday December 23, 2022
A federal jury in Los Angeles has decided that a company that sells spikes meant to repel birds must pay a photographer $1.2 million for using his photo of a pigeon without compensating him for it. The company, Bird B Gone, used photographer Dennis Fugnetti’s photo for more than a decade. Fugnetti brought a lawsuit against the company in 2019, claiming that Bird B Gone continued to promote itself with a photo of a pigeon in flight that he took for the company in 1999, notes LAW360. The company even tried to trademark the photo.
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David Schonauer Friday December 23, 2022
Now there are fake ID photos to go along with fake Facebook accounts. This week we noted that Facebook parent Meta is seeing a "rapid rise" in fake profile photos generated by artificial intelligence.
The finding from Meta comes after a year in which technology like "generative adversarial networks" (GAN) have become widely available to the public. The increased use of GAN-generated profile
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Bloomberg Thursday December 22, 2022
Silicon Valley continues its belt tightening ahead of a projected recession: Bloomberg reports that Adobe will lay off 100 employees, joining many other tech companies in using staff cuts to reduce expenses. Adobe’s job cuts, which will be concentrated in its sale force, are far smaller than the thousands announced by other technology companies, including Amazon.com Inc., HP Inc., Cisco Systems Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.
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npr Thursday December 22, 2022
It is the lowest exposed spot on Earth, with waters so full of salt that bathers float to the top. It provided minerals used by the ancient Egyptians for mummification and is fabled to be the biblical site of Sodom and Gomorrah. But today the Dead Sea is dying, and its banks are collapsing, notes NPR in a report featuring images by Ofir Berman The water level is dropping close to four feet every year. "You've seen a living disaster in front of your eyes," says Jake Ben Zaken, an Israeli who says he operates the only passenger boats on the Dead Sea.
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