Notices by Annemarie Bridy (annemariebridy@mastodon.lawprofs.org)

@joeo10 Our Roku TV is a TCL, but my understanding is that it can’t be OS-agnostic. Is that wrong? Clearly, I need to do some homework. I don’t have an issue with having Internet connectivity. I actually need it. I just don’t want Roku’s home screen and interface with the promise of more intrusive ads.

I feel like the value proposition for my Roku TV is shifting in the direction of my getting a different TV. Is there any viable and reasonably accessible way to jailbreak the thing?

Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/roku-ad-push-continues-with-plans-to-put-video-ads-in-os-home-screen/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

If we still had more than 500 sanctions left to impose, maybe we weren’t imposing enough sanctions before?

U.S. imposes more than 500 new Russia sanctions after Navalny’s death https://wapo.st/4bMUgCK

Ethan Mollick gets this right: “At the risk of ruining a good joke, it also shows how hard it is to get this right…Some guardrails are necessary…but they get intrusive fast.”

Meet the Pranksters Behind Goody-2, the World’s ‘Most Responsible’ AI Chatbot | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/goody-2-worlds-most-responsible-ai-chatbot/

The sports leagues are on the site-blocking warpath over streaming piracy, but moves like this go a long way to explain why piracy persists — and will get worse — as subscription streaming services with narrow offerings get desperate for revenue.

Why is the NFL Miami Chiefs game on Peacock? It’s chaos. https://slate.com/technology/2024/01/nfl-playoff-peacock-miami-dolphins-kansas-chiefs-also-taylor-maybe.html

I’m flashing back to the RIAA saying, “when you fish with a net, you catch a few dolphins.” 🤷🏻♀️ ©️🐬#copyright

Luke Combs apologizes to fan ordered to pay $250,000 in copyright lawsuit https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/dec/14/luke-combs-country-singer-merchandise?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I am a longtime user of Firefox, but I'm being driven to other alternatives by the fact that the PayPal API is seemingly broken in Firefox for iOS for all websites I want to buy things from. I don't have this problem in Chrome or Safari. I've tried enabling pop-ups, disabling privacy extensions, tweaking tracking protections, deleting cookies, but nothing seems to work. Does anyone have advice for this problem?

I am so excited that the countdown to Public Domain Day 2024 has begun! 🥳 On January 1, 2024, copyrighted works of every kind from 1928 will become free in the US for everyone to copy and adapt, distribute, display and perform. Follow @everybodyslibraries@everybodyslibraries.com & @publicdomainrev

If there’s a cascade of resignations at OpenAI by senior engineers who are Altman loyalists, that’s going to be a big challenge for OpenAI. https://awful.systems/post/544588

My lawyer friends, this could be you! 🥨🍿(I’m told you can’t have just one.)

Counsel, Salty Snacks Job at Hersheys | GoInhouse.com https://www.goinhouse.com/jobs/285321589-counsel-salty-snacks-at-hersheys

Surprising no one,

RFK Jr. Super PAC’s Biggest Contribution Came From Trump Megadonor – Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rfk-jr-super-pac-trump-republican-donor-1234798689/

@blakereid @inthehands If the stated purpose of the partnership is “to develop tools that could assist local news organizations,” I’m not sure where you’re seeing implied displacement. There is certainly a fear of disinformation, but that doesn’t strike me as a substitution issue that copyright is meant to address, and I’m not sure how saying that training LLMs isn’t fair use would address the problem of disinformation (which is being generated and distributed quite widely right now by humans).

@inthehands @blakereid Intent is relevant, potentially, to the first fair use factor: the purpose and character of the use. That factor has tended to decompose into two subfactors: commercial or noncommercial; transformative or nontransformative. But that rubric is a little up in the air after AWF v. Goldsmith. Some (but few) courts consider whether the use is good faith or bad faith, but that's appropriately uncommon imo.

@blakereid @inthehands I wouldn't say LLMs are 'designed' to economically displace book authors. They're designed to compose a wide range of coherent, fluent texts, in response to free-form user prompts, for a very wide range of purposes to which a very wide range of users might put them--from the mundane to the sublime. (I agree that framing will be key here, and that a lot of the framing will be gaming.)

The criminal case against Prigozhin will be dropped and he’ll move to Belarus…where, after a year or two, he’ll be mysteriously poisoned to death or accidentally fall out of a window on a high floor of a tall building. #Russia #RussiaCoup

My fervent wish is that all efforts to enclose the podcast ecosystem will fail.

How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong | Semafor

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/12/2023/how-spotifys-podcast-bet-went-wrong

@PeterBronez I hadn’t seen it before. Thanks for flagging.

This is some bullshit. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/04/refuse-firm-lord-of-the-bins-ordered-to-change-its-name-by-tolkien-franchise

NFTs x link rot.

RT @Techmeme@twitter.com

Some NFTs minted on FTX are broken, showing only blank images, because metadata points to an http://FTX.US domain now used for a bankruptcy restructuring website (@ezrareguerra@twitter.com / Cointelegraph)

https://cointelegraph.com/news/nfts-minted-on-ftx-break-highlighting-web2-hosting-flaws
http://www.techmeme.com/221208/p13#a221208p13

??: https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1600816433436381184