Dids Macdonald OBE

Chairman & Co-Founder of Anti Copying in Design (ACID) "Design Warrior" for Intellectual Property (IP) respect, compliance and ethics.

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

ACID Workshop: Responding to the Design Consultation – Everything You Need To Know! – Anti Copying In Design Ltd (ACID) https://t.co/mL3S46JyFF

[Anti Copying in Design @ACID_tweets]

📢 Designers: UK’s Design Consultation is here! Join ACID’s online workshop on 8 Oct, 9:30am to learn how to respond & share your case studies. Let’s fight for stronger design law! ✍️

Don’t miss out. Register now to secure your place 👉 https://t.co/W6CHOB1Vqd

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

Once-in-a-decade IP Shake-up: Government Announces Major Design Law Reform Consultation – Anti Copying In Design Ltd (ACID) https://t.co/H2yIvPbbYF

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

Delighted our @ACID_tweets campaigning over 10+ years has come to fruition. Thnx to @The_IPO for collaboration & engagement to highlight the plight of lone, micro and SME #designers who face "David & Goliath" challenges. @designcouncil @AllianceForIP we welcome this consultation

[Intellectual Property Office UK @The_IPO]

Just launched: Consultation on changes to the UK designs framework.

We're consulting on changes to the design protection system to help make it simpler, fairer, and more accessible.

If you work with designs, have your say in our consultation [link]: https://t.co/0hOZHM5IB8

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

well said, if you feel the same please joWn hundreds of creators who have signed our ACID IP Charter supporting #respect #compliance and #ethics

[Anti Copying in Design @ACID_tweets]

What our ACID IP Charter Signatories say 🗣️

©️ By signing the ACID IP Charter, you're lending your voice to the growing community who hold true to integrity in design and stand up for respect, ethics and compliance in design.

Sign for FREE 👉 https://t.co/oIRjeASRRn

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

Delighted to be hooked up as partners with @SoBJewellers - we have many talented jewellery designers and makers at ACID and will value the connection

[Anti Copying in Design @ACID_tweets]

We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with @SoBJewellers 💍
Together, we’ll champion respect, ethics & compliance in IP, helping jewellers protect their unique designs and fight back against copying.

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/zPTWtG3pNJ

[Anti Copying in Design @ACID_tweets]

✨ The new issue is here!

ACID Magazine issue 84 is bursting with stories of bold design, strong partnerships & empowering IP insights.

Ready to dive in?

👉 Read it now at https://t.co/b67Z26pUTK

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

so cute!

[TheEnglishCaravanCo @TheEnglishCarav]

Morning Campers!... ❤️❤️❤️

#morningcampers #haveagreatday #lotsoflove #caravanlove #friendship #love #caravanfamily #smile #behappy

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

AI and Copyright - the Kidron Amendments https://t.co/FXZVWdoxUD

[Anti Copying in Design @ACID_tweets]

⚖️ FREE Webinar ⚖️

ACID Lunchtime Learning: Taking It Personally — Directors’ Liability
🗓 May 15 | 🕧 12:30–1:30 PM

Can company directors be personally liable for IP infringements? Yes — and here’s what you need to know with @IP_DOCTOR

Register now: https://t.co/fjVir5eH35

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

Proud to sign this letter to the Prime Minister on behalf of @ACID_tweets members & the broader #design community. I hope he is listening mode-the signatories of this letter make powerful arguments to support attribution, transparency & recompense by AI for copyright creators

[Anti Copying in Design @ACID_tweets]

🚨 400+ UK creatives – from Elton John to Antony Gormley – urge the PM: protect human creativity from AI exploitation.

Support transparency. Enforce copyright. Our work is not yours to give away.

👉 Read the press release: https://t.co/Wu2Dvf05on

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

it's a shocking and immoral use of power to dance to the tune of the broligarchy.

[Joe Morelle @RepJoeMorelle]

Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis.

It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.

Register Perlmutter is a patriot, and her tenure has propelled the @CopyrightOffice into the 21st century.

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

A brilliant show of unity to say to @10DowningStreet "Our work is not yours to give away" signed by many famous names, including many of the UK's iconic designers

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Hundreds of leading British musicians, actors and writers wrote to the Prime Minister today, urging him not to give their work away to AI companies.

https://t.co/99DioBhl05

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Excited to see my work on visual plagiarism with @rahll hit the big time!

And hooray for this incredibly sensible decision from the US copyright office!

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

And does it protect designers if their work is data scraped for training by AI?

[Intellectual Property Office UK @The_IPO]

📝 Protect your product's unique look! Design registration safeguards shape, configuration, decoration & pattern.

Costs from £50, and lasts 5 years, renewable up to 25!

Learn more: https://t.co/VdBb4uEQNY

#IntellectualProperty #DesignProtection #UKBusiness

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

Could not agree more, and its also good to mention that it is not just music but this affects all from the fantastic creative industries, globally, including design.

[Future of Music Coalition @future_of_music]

The Copyright Office's new report is balanced, pragmatic, and legally sound. While careful to avoid wading into currently pending legal disputes which are fact specific, it supports creators' position than AI training isn't automatically fair use, and that licensing is necessary.

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

Agreed but sad that it would appear that Trump has sacked the Head of the Copyright Office after this excellent report. Let's hope our own PM reads the letter on behalf of UK creators which says, "Our work is not yours to give away"

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Lots more to say on this, but the US Copyright Office’s report on generative AI training is superb.

It rejects the idea that all gen AI training is fair use, and it makes it clear that licensing training data is the way forward. Plus it destroys a bunch of AI booster mantras along the way (‘it’s just like human learning’ etc.).

Extremely gratifying to see it laid out so sensibly and thoroughly, by the government body responsible for providing guidance on copyright law.

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

https://t.co/AkGXHq2wCC

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

Dua Lipa and Paul McCartney among 400 urging AI copyright protection https://t.co/FEj3Hq1PVS via @MailOnline and designers, too, have signed this letter to the PM, "Our work is not yours to give away"

[Dids Macdonald OBE @DidsMacdonald]

Thanks @ZoeFranklinLD & many others who stood behind us, the fight goes on to make government listen to the Creative Industries. They cannot continue to dismiss this precious asset in favour of Big Tec. We want to work with AI but ONLY with transparency, attribution & recompense

[Zöe Franklin MP @ZoeFranklinLD]

Tonight I stood with musicians and all of creatives and voted to add protections to the Data Bill to protect their rights and ensure their they can maintain their creativity without threat of their work being stolen.

Deeply disappointed the Gov failed to listen.

@UK_Music