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Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse and the blending of fan and franchise

Hanna Kahlert

3 Jan 2024

Disney

mickey mouse

copyright

Long known for its tight hold on copyright, Disney is seeing one of its core characters – the 1928 version of Mickey Mouse – enter the public domain, presenting an excellent case study for the role...

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AI copyright lawsuits beg the bigger question: How valuable is digital content?

Hanna Kahlert

10 Nov 2023

digital detox

AI

OpenAI

The future of artificial intelligence (AI) is currently caught between earth-shaking promise on one side, and a tangle of ongoing litigation on the other. This week’s OpenAI keynote painted an exciting...

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AI is the new digital ad industry… but the stakes are far greater

Hanna Kahlert

9 Aug 2023

AI

Digital

ads

Zoom has been making the news this week over its controversial new terms and conditions that now allow the service (in theory) to utilise user data to train its AI-assisted features. While the company...

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What the comedian lawsuits against Pandora could mean for podcasts

Annie Langston

14 Sep 2022

Pandora

lawsuits

copyright

The mountain of comedians who are suing Pandora over copyright infringement continues to grow. In February, the estates of both Robin Williams and George Carlin filed lawsuits against Pandora, claiming...

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