Daily LInks
1. Hollywood actors are pushing back against studios using AI to clone them. Actors have been pushing for contract terms that now include bars against allowing past performances to be put into an AI to generate something new. Some actors are already compiling digital libraries of themselves to potentially license for the use in AI. – Read More on NPR
2. China tackling ‘bad faith’ trademark hoarding, squatting rules to protect IP, be more attractive to investment. Beijing hopes, analysts said, to protect domestic companies to boost the Chinese economy that has been affected by the China-US trade war and global supply chain decoupling. – Read More on SCMP
2. Principles for Using AI Responsibly. “Disclose all third parties used to provide and maintain AI assets, what the third party’s role is, and how the third party will ensure employee privacy.” – Read More on HBR
4. RETRO READ: A Year in Bad Faith – How Brands and Their Trademarks Are Faring in China. The CNIPA has, in fact, started to refuse trademark applications based on Article 4, which suggests that the amendments “have improved the CNIPA’s practice in examining bad faith applications.” – Read More on TFL
5. Why fashion may never be sustainable. At its core, fashion is a system “premised on growth.” Combine that “with accelerating product drops, long lead times, and global supply chains, and the result is inevitable overproduction.” – Read More on The Week
6. RELATED READ: What Fashion’s Foundational Shift to Address ESG Issues Really Looks Like. The 450-million-garments-per-year number gets to the heart of fashion’s production/consumption problem: the consistent quest for scale. – Read More on TFL