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45% of the EU's total economic activity is attributable to the intellectual property industry worth EUR 6.6 trillion in Patents, Trade Marks, Industrial Design and Copyright. (25 September 2019, EUIPO)
We have collected in these pages a set of articles and news from around the world on the topic of Intellectual Property and Copyright, selected and verified by our Press Office.
OpenAI's spider seems to have got stuck in a web that is too big for its capabilities. The artificial intelligence giant seems, in fact, to have a crawler whose programming has recently been found to be inefficient.
John Levine, besides being the author of 'The Internet for Dummies', is also the owner of web.sp.am/., ...
The impact that artificial intelligence has on those who use it on a daily basis is fundamentally unquestionable: whether it be emotional influences dictated by the misuse of ipperrealistic deepfakes or difficulties in maintaining attention as a result of the profound change in online content, it can now be said that t...
As is evident from the incessant news reports on a daily basis, major companies in the artificial intelligence sector disproportionately use any kind of photograph, work or image that can be found on the Internet to train their AI systems. This means that huge amounts of copyright-protected content is included within t...
The beginning of the week marked OpenAI's arrival in Japan with the recent opening of a new office in Tokyo. To expand their business within Japanese land,a GPT-4 model specifically optimised for the Japanese language was announced.
For the first time since the release of the artificial intelligence in question, OpenA...
Why lend your computing power to scientific projects such as SETI or other initiatives, when you can 'sell' your unused GPU for the creation of AI-generated pornographic content and potentially violate someone's privacy or commit acts of violence?
After the hype around virtual currencies and cryptocurrencies, here is ...
Recently, the App Store has allowed the presence of applications intended to function as emulators for the system used by Apple's product line. iGBA, the first Game Boy Advance system emulator available for the iPhone, was released recently.
Its presence in the App Store, however, did not last long. Shortly after its ...
During the first few months of the spread of artificial intelligence, the worrying possibility of its misuse by young students was repeatedly rumoured - more than a year after its rise, this technology seems to have become the hero of anyone acting in an academic capacity, whether student or teacher.
A professor of st...
Not all artificial intelligence comes to harm, as already seen in the past. Used carefully and judiciously, this technology proves to be of fundamental importance for the development of various sectors: whether scientific, medical or agricultural. In fact, many US farms have recently started to push towards the use of ...
Leonardo AI, one of the most widely used artificial intelligences in the Internet world, has recently come under the spotlight thanks to a successful fundraising effort, reaching the impressive sum of 31 million dollars. Another reason for the sudden attention towards this image generator lies behind the ease it offers...
The 20th of October 2023 saw the release of the long-awaited 'Spider-Man 2', the recent piece de resistance from Insomniac Games, a video game development company that rose to fame thanks to titles such as 'Spyro' and 'Ratchet & Clank'. The game of the friendly neighbourhood spider has enjoyed considerable success from...
Back in 2016, Facebook launched a secret operation called 'Project Ghostbusters', aimed at intercepting and deciphering network traffic between users of the Snapchat app and its servers. The ultimate goal was to understand the reasons behind the behaviour of those using the app, so as to be able to compete with Snapcha...
The accessibility to culture and information is a right of any human being, and it should be easier to convey education through the billions of networks and technological supports available today. Nevertheless, two giants of the vast internet world, Meta and Google, have recently been accused of hindering the diffusion...
Every innovation in the technological environment is bound to permanently change global energy consumption. Due to the 'recent' rise in popularity of artificial intelligence (and quantum computing), it is inevitable that energy consumption will experience significant spikes.
According to National Grid, a British multi...
The Tiktok saga continues: in recent months, the Chinese platform has been subjected to a series of investigations and accusations, but the situation seems to be getting worse and worse. Officially regarded as a threat to US citizens by the House of Representatives, there has recently been a proposal to ban the applica...
March ended with a "festive week" for those users of X (formerly known as Twitter) subscribed to its Premium version, as the platform's CEO gave them access to Grok, his AI chatbot.
Earlier this month, Elon Musk had announced his intention to make Grok open-source and granted access to all Premium+ subscribers, in a m...
During the month of February, one of the pillar companies of the US health insurance industry fell victim to an unprecedented cyber attack. Change Healthcare, the company in case, is fortunately recovering quickly from this breach: the services it offers are up and running again and the liquidity required to maintain t...