Variety Monday June 30, 2025
After 37 years at the helm of the world’s most important fashion magazine Anna Wintour istepping down, reports Variety. Wintour announced to staffers on on Thursday that Vogue will begin the search for a new head of editorial content. She will remain Condé Nast’s chief content officer as well as global editorial director at Vogue, continuing to oversee the magazine’s worldwide output. As chief content officer of Condé Nast, Wintour oversees all of the company’s brands globally — including Wired, Vanity Fair, GQ, AD, Condé Nast Traveler, Glamour, Bon Appétit, and Tatler.
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David Schonauer Monday June 30, 2025
Getty Images dropped its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI on Wednesday at London's High Court, narrowing one of the most closely watched legal fights over how AI companies
use copyrighted content to train their models. The move doesn't end the case entirely - Getty is still pursuing other claims as well as a separate lawsuit in the U.S.- but underscores the … Read the full Story >>
THE VERGE Friday June 27, 2025
A federal judge has sided with AI company Anthropic in a copyright case, ruling that training its artificial intelligence models on legally purchased books without authors’ permission is fair use. It’s a first-of-its-kind decision in favor of the AI industry, but it’s importantly limited specifically to physical books Anthropic purchased and digitized, notes The Verge. Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California said in his decision that the company must face a separate trial for pirating “millions” of books from the internet.
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ARTnews Friday June 27, 2025
Rosalind Fox Solomon, a photographer who crafted piercing images of alienation, racism, and marginalization in the United States and far beyond it, died in New York on June 23, reports Art News. She was 95. Across a career that spanned nearly six decades, Fox Solomon focused on an array of individuals who faced the scorn of mainstream society, from Black Americans in the South to people with AIDS in New York to Palestinians in the West Bank. More recently, she gained praise for self-portraits that explored aging,
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