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Dutch far-right party pays damages to court artist after changing image with AI

A Dutch court artist has received damages after a member of parliament for the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) used her work without permission and manipulated it with AI. Petra Urban, a court artist of 19 years, discovered that a drawing she made of two jailed Syrian brothers was reworked to make the subjects appear more menacing. The image was used in a video on Instagram and Facebook by the party’s Noord-Brabant region. Urban stated she was upset that her work was used without permission, used for a political party, and distorted with AI. Under Dutch law, creators have moral rights to object to distortions that harm their reputation. Following a legal demand from Urban’s union, PVV MP Maikel Boon apologized and paid damages, the amount of which has not been made public. Boon told De Telegraaf he believed an altered image was no longer subject to copyright and called his actions a “very stupid act.” The film in question has been removed from the internet. In a separate legal matter, the data analytics company Palantir lost a lawsuit in a Swiss commercial court regarding a magazine’s reporting on the company’s failure to win government contracts. The court dismissed 22 out of 23 counts of Palantir’s request to force the magazine, Republik, to publish its responses to the articles. The court ruled that only one passage regarding Palantir’s software development in Afghanistan and Iraq warranted a published response. Palantir was ordered to pay 95% of the court costs and legal expenses to Republik. Also, Tyra Banks filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix on Saturday. Banks accuses the streaming giant of manipulating her participation in a documentary about “America’s Next Top Model.” The lawsuit alleges that Netflix selectively edited her interview to create a false narrative that she knowingly allowed a contestant to be sexually assaulted and exploited the contestant’s trauma. Banks claims the documentary has caused significant harm to her personal brand and her ice cream business. Netflix declined to comment.

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