Melbourne brothel wants order compelling Google to release info on anonymous reviewers
Google has been served with a third preliminary discovery lawsuit in Australia seeking the identity of online reviewers, this time by a Melbourne brothel and escort service seeking to eliminate 11 one-star reviews from the search engine.
A blog relating to Internet legal issues by Professor John Swinson, University of Queensland
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Facebook in Court
In a surprising move, the Australian Information Commissioner has sued Facebook in Australia over giving access to personal information of thousands of Australians to Cambridge Analytica.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-09/facebook-privacy-oaic-information-commissioner/12039642
https://www.businessnewsaus.com.au/articles/australian-information-commissioner-takes-facebook-to-court.html
"We consider the design of the Facebook platform meant that users were unable to exercise reasonable choice and control about how their personal information was disclosed," says Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-09/facebook-privacy-oaic-information-commissioner/12039642
https://www.businessnewsaus.com.au/articles/australian-information-commissioner-takes-facebook-to-court.html
"We consider the design of the Facebook platform meant that users were unable to exercise reasonable choice and control about how their personal information was disclosed," says Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk.
Musicians Create Every Melody in Existence to Avoid Copyright Infringement
Two programmers who are musicians have supposedly created every possible MIDI melody in existence, saved this to a hard drive, copyrighted the whole thing, and then released it all to the public in an attempt to stop musicians from getting sued for copyright infringement.
Vice Article
Whether this actually accomplishes what they want to do is uncertain.
Using small snippets of public available music (or computer code) to create a work, that is the same as a well-known larger work, may still be copyright infringement. It depends on whether the creator knew of and had access to the well-known larger work.
See Dais Studios case, where Ben Petro copied public Java script to create a larger computer program. See also AFR Article
This also has relevance to AI programs and how they are trained.
Vice Article
Whether this actually accomplishes what they want to do is uncertain.
Using small snippets of public available music (or computer code) to create a work, that is the same as a well-known larger work, may still be copyright infringement. It depends on whether the creator knew of and had access to the well-known larger work.
See Dais Studios case, where Ben Petro copied public Java script to create a larger computer program. See also AFR Article
This also has relevance to AI programs and how they are trained.
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