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Andres Guadamuz
@technollama.bsky.social
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Law and technology academic. Posts about copyright law, internet regulation, AI, llamas, pandas, and cats. Dual Tico-British citizen.
https://www.technollama.co.uk/

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 6h
We don't have rulings in other countries on this point, but we have art4 CDSM in the EU. Also private copying is aloud, and the copies aren't communicated to the public, information is extracted from them.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 6h
"The court also agreed that buying and digitizing books is transformative because “every purchased print copy was copied in order to save storage space and to enable searchability as a digital copy.”
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Two California District Judges Rule That Using Books to Train AI is Fair Use | White & Case LLP
Two days apart, two judges in the Northern District of California decided on summary judgment that two examples of using copyrighted works to train AI models were transformative, and ultimately fair u...
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 10h
I try my best here. www.technollama.co.uk/a-short-guid...
A short guide to the Copyright Wars
My social timeline has been abuzz with the latest copyright decision regarding the Internet Archive, which lost its appeal in the copyright lawsuit from Hachette. In the words of a colleague, this …
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 10h
That is a different source of material, these are the books acquired from Anna's Archive, the judge specifically excluded the books from scanning and declared the process transformative.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 10h
Making a copy of a purchased book and then using that copy as part of a large corpus for training is transformative, and therefore fair use.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 19h
My mum absolutely loves him, she has all of his books.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 20h
Can you steal game gold pieces? The Court of Appeal says yes

It's been a while since we had a proper digital property and virtual gold story here at Llama Towers, I have to admit that it's been mostly AI for the last few years. But a recent decision in the Court of Appeal (Criminal division) in…
Can you steal game gold pieces? The Court of Appeal says yes
It's been a while since we had a proper digital property and virtual gold story here at Llama Towers, I have to admit that it's been mostly AI for the last few years. But a recent decision in the Court of Appeal (Criminal division) in England and Wales has prompted me to write a few words about the always fascinating world of property rights in digital assets (thanks to Andrew Ducker for the heads-up).
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 21h
My timeline.
Agents. Agents Everywhere.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 1d
It's important to keep your mark away from any confusion, or you may end up diluting it. I initially thought that Clawdbot was related to Claude, and that can be dangerous territory in trademark law.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 1d
Wait, doesn't everyone start their classes with "hey chat", and end with "please like and subscribe", or is it just me?
hailey.at hailey @hailey.at · 1d
went to a university thing this past weekend. first time i ever unironically heard someone introduce themselves for a talk with “hey chat”. also none of them had heard of bluesky except the other people who were no longer students. first time ive really felt old.

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hailey @hailey.at · 1d
went to a university thing this past weekend. first time i ever unironically heard someone introduce themselves for a talk with “hey chat”. also none of them had heard of bluesky except the other people who were no longer students. first time ive really felt old.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 1d
Here is the case: R v Andrew Lakeman [2026] EWCA Crim 4 caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/crim/20...
R v Andrew Lakeman - Find Case Law - The National Archives
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 1d
Oooh! A good old-fashioned digital property and gold ruling! It's 2006 all over again. www.rockpapershotgun.com/a-judge-has-...
A judge has ruled that RuneScape gold pieces are real property, which is bad news for the ex-dev accused of stealing 705 billion of them
After the case was initially dismissed, a judge has ruled on appeal that RuneScape gold pieces are real property that can be stolen.
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 1d
Can't comment on the 1A aspect, but I tend to also be suspicious about transparency requirements.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 3d
Oh no, the three most fearful words in the English language: Bus replacement service.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 4d
God, I hate long footnotes.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 5d
OpenAI only has to pay GEMA royalties for 8 songs though.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 5d
Exclusive reveal of the Board of Peace headquarters.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 5d
We've never agreed on almost anything 😀

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 5d
I'm sensing a vibe shift in the copyright AI debate. People were promised that copyright would destroy generative AI, yet it's now 2026 and that is not going to happen. I sense something akin to the end of the P2P wars, some sort of recognition that the landscape has changed.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 6d
Why We Need Tech Lawyers to Shine Again

Text from my editorial in IIC. n courtrooms across the globe, a quiet crisis is brewing. As the number of artificial intelligence copyright litigations increases, judges are being asked to decide the fate of technologies that often operate in dimensions the…
Why We Need Tech Lawyers to Shine Again
Text from my editorial in IIC. n courtrooms across the globe, a quiet crisis is brewing. As the number of artificial intelligence copyright litigations increases, judges are being asked to decide the fate of technologies that often operate in dimensions the human mind struggles to visualise accurately. From the High Court in London to the Munich Regional Court, the central question is no longer just “Who owns this?” but “How does this actually work?”
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 6d
I've never felt proprietary about my writing, once it's out there it's no longer mine, which is perhaps one of the reasons why I’m comfortable with my work being used to train AI. It feels good knowing a small part of me lives in the training data.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 8d
The Greenland distraction had the desired effect: Nobody is talking about Epstein.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 9d
Insert a weary "I'm starting to think that DJT didn't deserve the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize" joke here.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 10d
I'm looking forward to the less interesting times.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 11d
Inadvertently coming across some timelines.
a blonde woman is talking to another woman and says why are you so obsessed with me
ALT: a blonde woman is talking to another woman and says why are you so obsessed with me
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 15d
"Oh wow, your Spanish is so good! You almost sound Costa Rican!"

Reposted by Andrés Guadamuz

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 16d
This new paper is very cool. But takeaway isn't "LLMs constantly leak books.' It’s "with the right (adversarial) procedure, you can extract memorized text." Prevalence in the wild is a separate question!!

arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
arxiv.org

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 17d
Why are Americans so loud? I've never understood why, last night there was a couple at the bar and you could follow their conversation over the music and the rest of the people. Is it a learned behaviour? Is it a defence mechanism to scare off predators?

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 18d
Me typing "This is just a gentle reminder..."
a cat is sitting on a couch with its paws on a laptop .
ALT: a cat is sitting on a couch with its paws on a laptop .
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