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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A judge upholds a US Copyright Office finding that artwork created by AI isn't eligible for copyright protection as “human authorship is a bedrock requirement” — A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.
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David Ljunggren / Reuters:
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge demands that Meta lift its “reckless” news ban on Facebook and Instagram for the safety of people fleeing wildfires — The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta (META.O) lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms …
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Pete Evans / CBC News:
Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Kendall Baker, who led Axios Sports and now heads up newsletters at Yahoo Sports, on sports media competitors, what attracted him to Yahoo, and more — “I believe, if we do our job as well as we can, we're going to make sports fans into even bigger sports fans …
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Tim Adams / The Guardian:
Q&A with Nobel Peace Prize winner and former editor of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov on the documentary about his life, attacks on reporters, and more — The Russian newspaper editor speaks from Moscow in an exclusive interview as a new film biography charts his defiance of the Kremlin during the war in Ukraine
New York Times:
Sources: Donald Trump plans to upstage the first GOP primary debate on August 23, hosted by Fox News, to instead sit for an online interview with Tucker Carlson — The former president's apparent decision to skip the first debate is a major affront both to the Republican National Committee and to Fox News, which is hosting the event.
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Alex Reisner / The Atlantic:
Analysis: 170K+ books from Stephen King and other authors are part of Books3, a dataset used to train Meta's Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J — Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.
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Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
How The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Sun, The Independent, and other publishers are using non-news verticals to grow revenue, traffic, and subscribers — Building strong verticals beyond hard news can be a useful investment. — The New York Times “bundle” …
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Steven Kurutz / New York Times:
A look at Standard Industries, a roofing conglomerate that employs some Vanity Fair alumni and has invested in media startups like Puck, Air Mail, and Pushkin — Technically, none. So why has Standard Industries hired several of them? — When Graydon Carter started his digital newsletter …
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Liam Scott / Voice of America:
US Press Freedom Tracker data shows that out of 90+ search-and-seizure instances involving journalists documented since 2017, nine have involved search warrants — The police raid on a local Kansas newspaper in August stunned many First Amendment advocates. But it was far from an isolated incident.
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Amaris Castillo / Poynter:
How journalists for the Hawaiian nonprofits Honolulu Civil Beat and Akakū Maui Community Media are covering, and coping with, the Maui wildfires — 'We're going to be here for the long haul, so we have a huge task in front of us.' — Just before noon on Aug. 9, Courtney Teague felt a rush of adrenaline.
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Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian:
Russia bans dozens more Guardian, BBC, and Daily Telegraph journalists, executives, and media representatives from entering the country, after bans in June 2022 — List of 54 Britons includes Guardian reporters and executives, a defence minister and the culture secretary
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Sources: news outlets in the US say Meta made changes that cut their Facebook referral traffic; one publisher said traffic fell by 30%+ YoY, another by ~40% YoY — Editor's Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here.
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