Denmark plans to become the first country in the world to give its citizens copyright over their faces and voices in an effort to clamp down on “deepfakes” — videos, audio clips and images that are digitally doctored to spread false information.

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    12 hours ago

    Having copyright means nothing if the people can’t enforce it. How mch does it cost for a normal citizen to take one (1) corporation to a jury trial, again?

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      11 hours ago

      We don’t go by American rules here. We can take a corporation to court. Not only that, but Unions are a big thing here for that specific reason.

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    14 hours ago

    Anecdotally whenever I encounter someone from Denmark, they are always downplaying their home country and saying how great they think the USA is; I think they have a cultural propensity to try and keep Denmark a secret from outsiders.

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      Ah janteloven, danish humility.

      I live in Denmark, used to live in the US. Lots of problems still, but it’s basically just across the board better in most ways to me.

      I think the copyright law is a great step. Yeah, there’s probably some holes in the law and it doesn’t fix everything but I don’t know what else could be done, nor what other countries are doing nearly this much

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    15 hours ago

    Can you make your face and voice Public domain or Unlicense it to allow anyone to freely use it?

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    19 hours ago

    Good article except that they called this:

    The clip, which was presented as a dream sequence and clearly labelled as AI-manipulated content, prompted debate about the acceptable boundaries of the technology.

    A grey area. Come on, that’s very clearly satire.