In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the majority of the population was confined to their homes, Studio Ghibli came to the rescue. The screen time of people (who had the luxury and privilege of being at home or being stuck in the Himalayas) skyrocketed. A Ghibli film is a…
Opinion
The Intellectual Property Laws Are Changing
Futurism reports that Meta says it’s okay to feed copyrighted books to its AI models because they have no economic value. Big tech companies like Meta, Google, and OpenAI, which own generative AI models, are already under fire for their blatant disregard for copyright laws and for stealing content from…
Opinion
Digital products we pay for, but we still don’t own them
Any typical transaction involves a transfer of ownership. You pay to buy an apple, own the apple, and then eat it. When you buy a book, you own it for life. With the growth of digital infrastructure, the type of goods we own has shifted from physical to digital. Since…
Listicles
The not-so-popular political and historical animation films, Part 3
You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. In this section, I write about a Japanese film that tells the story of a little girl from Amsterdam who changed the world, as well as beloved French comics adapted into films that challenge capitalism, discuss labor rights, and feature…
Cartoon Tech
Forget AI; technologies in animation will blow your mind! Part – 1
We have come a long way since cavemen painted on rocks. Whatever purpose the activity might have served, aesthetically or otherwise, it’s evident that art has been an indispensable part of human evolution and evolves with the tools available to humankind. Over the past years, “generative” AI has crept into…