National Law Review Thursday January 26, 2023
The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled against a photographer who sued a hospitality tech company for removing copyright metadata from his photos before posting them on travel websites, notes the National Law Review. The photographer, Victor Elias, filed a lawsuit against Shiji Group in 2021 for distributing his photos and stripping out the embedded copyright management information (CMI) metadata from his images, adds PetaPixel. His case had earlier been dismissed by a lower court because the photographer had not shown that Shiji knew, or had reasonable grounds to know, that “its actions would induce, enable, facilitate, or conceal a copyright infringement.”
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International Dog Photography Awards Thursday January 26, 2023
Do you like it when the subject of your picture slobbers? Then you'll love the winners of the second annual International Dog Photography Awards. Created by dog photographers Audrey Bellot and Claudio Piccoli, both previous finalists of the American Photography Open contest, the competition invites professional and amateur photographers to enter their work in four categories—Action, Portrait & Landscape, Studio, and Dogs & People. Francesco Junior Mura wins the Action category for his photo of a collie on an agility course.
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PHYS ORG Thursday January 26, 2023
Light pollution is growing rapidly and in some places the number of stars visible to the naked eye in the night sky is being reduced by more than half in less than 20 years, according to a study run by the US National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory. Researchers used stellar observations from 2011 to 2022 submitted by more than 51,000 "citizen scientists" around the world to arrive at their conclusions, which were published in the journal Science. The change in the number of visible stars reported was equivalent to a 9.6 percent per year annual increase in sky brightness, notes Phys.org.
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David Schonauer Thursday January 26, 2023
It's just the start of 2023 and the internet is filled with stories about how artificial Intelligence is going to change the way we work, write, think and make art. So far, we can say this: We're
nowhere close to understanding where AI will lead us. Computer scientist Stephen Thaler is continuing his quest to have the U.S. Copyright Office grant a copyright to … Read the full Story >>
