The New York Times Thursday April 4, 2024
In January, the estate of George Carlin sued the makers of a YouTube comedy special who used artificial intelligence to impersonate the late comedian. The Carlin estate claimed that Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen infringed on the estate’s copyrights by training an A.I. algorithm on five decades of Carlin’s work. Now, reports The New York Times, both sids have reached a settlement: Sasso and Kultgen agreed to remove the special and to not use Carlin’s image, voice or likeness on any platform without prior approval. “The world has begun to appreciate the power and potential dangers inherent in A.I. tools,” said a lawyer for the Carlin estate.
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David Schonauer Thursday April 4, 2024
In early March, Nikon made the surprise announcement that it was acquiring RED Digital Camera, the company founded by Jim Jannard (founder of Oakley) and best known for digital cinema cameras
including the RED One 4K and V-Raptor X. With RED as a wholly owned subsidiary, Nikon hopes to use the deal to expand into the professional digital cinema camera market. One website has … Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Wednesday April 3, 2024
Last summer, B&H Photo hosted a relatively small camera industry trade show and exposition in New York, testing the waters for the viability of in-person shows after the collapse of NYC’s annual Photo Plus show. It went so well that the retailer is doubling down on its efforts for a follow-up next year, notes PetaPixel. The new show, which will take place on May 20 and 21, 2025, will be a “bigger and better” version of the original, promises B&H. Over 160 brands and 70 speakers were lined up for last year’s event.
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Hatje Cantz Wednesday April 3, 2024
Over over long and brilliant career, the photographer Ruth Orkin photographed many women—most iconically, Ninalee "Jinx" Allen Craig, the young women in Orkin’s image “American Girl in Italy.” The new book Ruth Orkin: Women brings together work from her archive that, notes publisher Hatje Cantz, reveal the photographer to be a “sensitive, interested, witty chronicler of the women’s world of the 1940s and 1950s.” Her subjects ranged from celebrities (Lauren Bacall, Jane Russell) to ladies sitting under hair dryers. See also: The New York Times.
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