Piracy Monitor Soap Box
Here are articles and opinions that Piracy Monitor and its Managing Director Steve Hawley believe merit special attention, including infringement by major platform providers.
US Chamber Piracy Symposium: Piracy has outgrown old policy assumptions
By Jaci McDole, Executive Director, Copyright and Creativity, Global Innovation Policy Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Digital piracy has long been treated as a copyright problem. That framing is now...
Analysis: Protect content from unauthorized exploitation by using Visual Semantic Search
This is Part 2 of a two-part article by Fernando Amendola, Managing Director at The Media League, and Steven Hawley, Managing Director, Piracy Monitor.
In Part 1 of this analysis,...
Analysis: Understanding Visual Semantic Search as an anti-piracy tool
This is Part 1 of a two-part article by Fernando Amendola, in collaboration with Piracy expert Steven Hawley and Video Processing guru Thierry Fautier
This analysis explores how Visual Semantic...
Google Gemini AI can data-mine you and now, your Google Workspace. Can pirates...
Google announced new features that connect data generated by group members within a Google Workspace to the Gemini Deep Research assistant in Google's Gemini generative AI platform; enabling it...
Should the UK open copyrighted works to unlicensed data mining, to train AI platforms?
In December 2024, the UK Intellectual Property Office proposed changes to existing UK copyright law that would permit AI platforms to permit data mining from copyrighted works without licenses....





