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A Munich court has proposed a royalty of one euro and five cents per month on Netflix premium subscribers to compensate codec patent holders. It sounds small, but multiplied across millions of accounts, the implications for how streaming services license the underlying technology that delivers your video could be significant and far-reaching.
On the legal frontier of artificial intelligence, the European Union has reaffirmed that copyright protection does not extend to AI-generated content. The principle is straightforward: authorship requires a human. What remains unsettled is how courts will handle works where AI and human creativity are deeply intertwined, which is increasingly most of them.
And Slack is making a notable bet that AI coding agents belong in the group chat, not just the terminal. The new Slack Code product embeds tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Devin directly into team channels, letting entire organizations watch, redirect, and ship software together in real time. It is a deliberate move to make AI development a collective act rather than a solo one.
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