Tech community blogger Andy Baio recently posted a blog post to his Waxy blog stating that he found a file hidden in macOS. He said that the Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in macOS Catalina and later versions.

Some users tweeted encouraging Craig Wright to sue Apple, to which he replied with a simple “Yes” in a subsequent tweet, acknowledging the user’s point of view.

Dr. Craig Wright has obtained a US copyright registration for the famous original Bitcoin whitepaper and most of the original Bitcoin code (version 0.1). Importantly, the registration granted by the U.S. Copyright Office confirms that Wright (alias Satoshi Nakamoto) is the author of the white paper and the code.

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In the case of Hachette v. Internet Archive, U.S. Federal Judge John G. Koeltl ruled against the Internet Archive, finding that the site did not have the right to scan books and lend them out as if they were in a library.

Judge Koeltl ruled that the Internet Archive had merely created a “derivative work” and therefore needed to obtain authorization from the book’s copyright owner (publisher) before lending it out through its National Emergency Library Program.

The Internet Archive said it would appeal. Chris Freeland, director of the Internet Archive, wrote an official blog post.

The lower U.S. court's decision today is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision affects libraries across the United States and hurts authors for whom this unfair licensing model is the only way to read their works online.

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OpenAI will evaluate different ways to deal with potential copyright and trademark issues, which may include allowing such generations as part of fair use or similar concepts, filtering specific types of content, and working directly with copyright [and] trademark owners on these issues. This is not just an issue for DALL-E 2. As the AI community-created open source implementations of DALL-E 2 and its predecessor DALL-E, both free and paid services were based on models trained on less carefully filtered datasets.

One of them, Pixelz.ai, launched this week an image generation application powered by a custom DALL-E model that makes creating photos showing various Pokémon and Disney movie characters like Guardians of the Galaxy and Frozen trivial. When contacted for comment, the Pixelz.ai team told TechCrunch that they have filtered the model’s training data for profanity, hate speech and “illegal activity” and blocked users from requesting these types of images when they are generated. The company also said it plans to add a reporting feature that will allow people to submit images that violate the terms of service to a team of human moderators. But where intellectual property (IP) is concerned, Pixelz.ai makes users “responsible” for using or distributing the images they generate, whether it’s a gray area or not.

According to Bradley J. Hulbert, a founding partner of the law firm MBHD and an expert in intellectual property law, the image generation system is problematic from a copyright perspective in several ways. Even with the addition of other elements, the artwork of people clearly derived from “protected works” (i.e., copyrighted) is often found to be infringing by the courts, such as an image of a Disney princess walking through a grimy New York neighborhood. To avoid a copyright claim, the work must be “transformative,” in other words, altered to such an extent that the intellectual property is unrecognizable.

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