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Copyright
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Nightshade: Protecting Copyright Through Adversarial Poisoning
Nightshade is a tool that lets artists poison AI training data by adding imperceptible perturbations to images — images look normal to humans but cause AI models trained on them to produce corrupted outputs. An offensive countermeasure for artists against unauthorized scraping.
It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing and Intellectual Property
Public Knowledge's 2012 white paper examining how existing copyright, patent, and trademark law applies to 3D printing — and arguing that the right policy response is restraint, not a DMCA-style preemptive clampdown. The title says the technology will be awesome if policymakers don't overreact.
Everything is a Remix Part 4
Kirby Ferguson's 'Everything is a Remix Part 4' — the final episode arguing that copyright law has been captured by corporations to restrict rather than enable creativity, inverting its constitutional purpose. Pairs with Jobs's 'good artists borrow, great artists steal' as a defense of creative recombination.