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Here’s a supreme irony: the Creative Commons licenses were invented to enable a culture of legally safe sharing, spurred by the legal terror campaign waged by the entertainment industry, led by a literal criminal predator who is now in prison for sex crimes.But because of a small oversight in old versions of the lic...

Last year, media companies laid off 20,000 people, more than any year in history (except 2020, the exception that proves the rule). This year it’s looking even more dire — case in point, The Messenger shut down last week after somehow squandering $50 million in just eight months.Entrepreneur and Wired co-founding ed...

What should we call the photorealistic images AI makes? Photos? And if they’re not photos, what are they? (“Images” is vague. The English language can’t keep up with whatever AI is doing… if you have suggestions, let us know.)An AI researcher and photographer on Medium, Thomas Smith, argues that, no, these are not p...

Photo by Cristofer Maximilian on UnsplashHi everyone,Celebrity photographer Tom Zimberoff has made a picture of everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger (who writes on Medium sometimes) to Ava Gardner (who, uh, does not). I’ve worked with a number of high profile photographers in my career, and every single one of them h...