Reuters Wednesday March 26, 2025
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. has affirmed that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence without human input cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed with the U.S. Copyright Office that an image created by Stephen Thaler's AI system "DABUS" was not entitled to copyright protection, and that only works with human authors can be copyrighted. The Copyright Office has separately rejected artists' bids for copyrights on images generated by the AI system Midjourney, notes Reuters.
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TIME Wednesday March 26, 2025
“On the night of Saturday, March 15, three planes touched down in El Salvador, carrying 261 men deported from the United States. A few dozen were Salvadoran, but most of the men were Venezuelans the Trump Administration had designated as gang members and deported, with little or no due process. I was there to document their arrival.” So notes Philip Holsinger, a photojournalist based in Nashville, Tennessee, at Time magazine. Holsinger has spent more than a year working on a book about life in El Salvador. Read the full Story >>
APA LA Wednesday March 26, 2025
American Photographic Artists (APA) Los Angeles invites you to support and celebrate women in the photography industry at its fourth Women In Photography event, which will take place on Saturday, April 5, from 11:00 am–3:30 pm PT at Dust Studios LA, 920 N Formosa Ave. The event includes two 60-minute panels, one featuring creative directors, marketing/advertising executives, photo producers, art directors and art producers across various fields and the other top photographers in their specialties. The panels will cover topics such as recent changes in the industry, DEI, work/family/life balance, the creative process, AI, and challenges working women continue to face on set and in the work environment.
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David Schonauer Wednesday March 26, 2025
This spring, Meta will stop working with fact-checkers in the U.S. to label false or misleading content. At the same time, Meta is revamping a program that has paid bonuses to creators for content
based on views and engagement, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts it once policed. The new Facebook Content Monetization program is currently invite-only, but Meta plans to … Read the full Story >>
