Gary Spencer Millidge

The Strangehaven guy. Artfully dishevelled writer and illustrator. I am a free I am not man a number

[Gary Spencer Millidge @millidge]

I’m launching a Patreon to help me get the final chapter, Strangehaven: Epilogue finished. Patreons will receive exclusive access to updates, work-in-progress and more. Please check it out.
https://t.co/K76VtTcrT4

[Gary Spencer Millidge @millidge]

@AaronMeyers Great to hear that, Aaron! Stay well!

[Soaring Penguin Press @spenguin]

The campaign for Meanwhile... The Best is live!

Help me get this book into the hands of those who will love it. (And if you're reading this, it's probably you!)

https://t.co/AB8GAasTwo

[Soaring Penguin Press @spenguin]

A glimpse of the first few stories in Meanwhile... The Best.

Campaign now live at https://t.co/AB8GAasTwo

#comics #comicbookart #graphicanthology #meanwhilethebest

[Gary Spencer Millidge @millidge]

@jpalmiotti Volume 2 coming soon!

[Gary Spencer Millidge @millidge]

@ednewtonrex Hey Ed, did you post this on BlueSky? I can’t find it if so.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Open letter to Andy Burnham: Ditch Labour’s disastrous stance on AI.

This is important - if you’re in the UK and you care about creatives, I encourage you to sign it.

https://t.co/ke5GuvxtiY

[Gary Spencer Millidge @millidge]

I'd encourage anyone opposed to AI to sign this:

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Open letter to Andy Burnham: Ditch Labour’s disastrous stance on AI.

This is important - if you’re in the UK and you care about creatives, I encourage you to sign it.

https://t.co/ke5GuvxtiY

[Gary Spencer Millidge @millidge]

@TheeMondoWray @AvatarX As I've just responded to Mr X: all issues/books/episodes will be re-released in some format at some point after I've finished the epilogue.
Thanks for your support!

[Gary Spencer Millidge @millidge]

@AvatarX I share your frustration, believe me! All issues/books/episodes will be re-released in some format at some point after I've finished the epilogue. Sorry to be so vague!

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

Chelsea Football Club has very sadly lost one of our most legendary players with the passing of Bobby Tambling at the age of 84.

We send our deepest condolences to Bobby’s family and friends at this difficult time.

[Lew Stringer, Cartoonist @lewstringer]

The Collected Cloak, compiling the great 1960s spy strip by Mike Higgs, will be distributed by Diamond UK. It'll be solicited in August for hopeful December release, so ask your local comic shop to order a copy!

[Gary Spencer Millidge @millidge]

@grok @ObaPort @ChelseaFC If only

[Unlimited L's @unlimited_ls]

NEW: Musician Murphy Campbell says she isn’t making money on YouTube because an AI company is cloning her music and filing copyright claims against her own videos

“An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major streaming platforms...

They used a distributor, which I just discovered, and that distributor’s name is Vydia. They used Vydia to upload all these AI-generated songs.

Vydia has since decided to make copyright claims on all of the videos that were used to feed that AI engine to sound like me.

So Vydia has come forward and made copyright claims on my YouTube page.

Because YouTube does not personally review these things, I am no longer making money on YouTube.

Vydia is making money on YouTube off of my own videos of me playing my own banjo in my own backyard with traditional folk songs, some for my own family, over AI-generated music.”

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

The UK government released its progress report on AI & copyright today.

The good news for creatives is that the government formally dropped its preferred option of a broad copyright exception with an opt-out. This was unworkable and hugely unpopular. It's good that they've recognised this.

The bad news is that weakening copyright law is very much still on the table. They haven't actually ruled out that hugely unpopular opt-out proposal, and they are explicit that they are still considering other forms of copyright exception too.

We are obviously in a better position than we were eighteen months ago, when the government was clearly in the pocket of big tech and was actively proposing an extremely harmful policy. Credit should go to the many, many creatives who fought that proposal, and to the new leadership at DSIT for listening.

But it's important not to see this as more of a win than it really is. The government is still considering weakening copyright law to favour AI companies, and those AI companies will continue to lobby very hard for them to do so.

Until the government rules out weakening copyright law, people need to keep making their voices heard. Our work is not the government's to give away. Speaking up works.

Read the report here: https://t.co/hIy1YP86zk

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on.

In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out.

To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government. It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored.

People's work is not the government's to give away.

If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

Starting next week, my government will implement the following actions:

First, we will change the law in Spain to hold platform executives legally accountable for many infringements taking place on their sites.

Second, we will turn algorithmic manipulation and amplification of illegal content into a new criminal offense.

Third, we will implement a hate and polarization footprint system to track, quantify, and expose how digital platforms fuel division and amplify hate.

Fourth, Spain will ban access to social media for minors under the age of 16. Platforms will be required to implement effective age verification systems — not just checkboxes, but real barriers that work.

Fifth and last, my government will work with our public prosecutor to investigate and pursue the infringement committed by Grok, TikTok, and Instagram.

[Gary Spencer Millidge @millidge]

So that’s another year almost done and dusted. Just the celebrations, the gifts, the food, the reflections and the regrets yet to come...

You can read my full annual Christmas message on my Patreon page here:
https://t.co/RPoVaU1JXR

Lashings of yuletide love,

--Gary.

[Gary Spencer Millidge @millidge]

@GailSimone I buy anything I can find drawn by Jakub Rebelka.

[Gary Spencer Millidge @millidge]

@rewindtvuk The Shadoks from 1968