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EDM Video with Live Sampling

By Josh Lerner on February 21, 2023

IMG_9742 Hi everyone! Hope you’re all enjoying reading break. I wanted to share this video I took last Friday night at an EDM concert. In the clip, Timmy Trumpet is sampling a song by David Guetta, which is in turn itself sampling a song by Eiffel 65. It reminded me of our discussion last class […]

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Week 6 Spring 2023 Slides & Video

By Jon Festinger on February 17, 2023

Slides & video below… Jon

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Using copyrighted images to train AI

By james miller on February 15, 2023

This lawsuit was briefly mentioned in last week’s news of the week and has particular relevance to what we’re currently covering in class. Getty images is currently suing Stability AI, an AI based image generator, alleging they copied 12 million images belonging to Getty to train it’s AI model. This case is particularly interesting to […]

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Week 5 Spring 2023 Slides & Video

By Jon Festinger on February 12, 2023

Slides and video below… Jon

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ChatGPT creating content for BuzzFeed

By Ju Hee Park on February 8, 2023

Hi everyone! I recently came across an article that discussed how BuzzFeed will be creating some of its content using ChatGPT. The use of AI technology for content creation seems to be in its early stage, and BuzzFeed’s CEO said that the company is currently looking to use it for limited purpose – to generate […]

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News of the Week: January 21 – February 5, 2023

By Jon Festinger on February 6, 2023

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Week 4 Spring 2023 Slides & Video

By Jon Festinger on February 3, 2023

Slides & video below. Unfortunately my human error is to blame for the lack of sound for the first while. Jon

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IP Infringements, Activism & Harm to Equity-Seeking Communities”

By joanna el-mikati on January 29, 2023

Hi everyone, This week I’ve been thinking about the intersections between IP protections and activism as well as how infringements to such IP can cause real harm to marginalized communities. I remembered a chat I had with an associate at a large Vancouver firm who was discussing taking on a pro-bono case to represent the […]

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Historical figures with no photos: Can we get protections on images created of them?

By Ju Hee Park on January 29, 2023

Hi everyone! I wanted to share an interesting article on whether someone’s face could be a trademark. Specifically, I was intrigued by the issue of whether there is trademark for figurative signs representing how historical figures might have looked like. When I watch TV shows or movies situated in an era far back in time, […]

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