Twitter’s automated copyright strike system appears to be broken, as users upload full movies; some accounts with viral tweets were later suspended (Paul Tassi/Forbes)

Julia Love / Bloomberg:
In NLRB complaints, the Alphabet Workers Union claims some contract workers were fired for supporting a union and faced retaliation after pushing for benefits  —  Contract workers at Google’s data centers allege that they were fired for supporting a union and faced retaliation after pushing …

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
A New York-based artist received copyright registration on a comic featuring artwork by Midjourney, the first known US copyright for latent diffusion AI art  —  Registration of AI-assisted comic comes amid fierce online debate about AI art ethics.  —  In what might be a first …

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Quentin Tarantino and Miramax settle their copyright infringement lawsuit over Pulp Fiction NFTs and say they may collaborate on more NFTs  —  Quentin Tarantino and Miramax have settled their copyright infringement lawsuit over the “Pulp Fiction” NFT project.

Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
Using translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs, some Chinese creators are getting millions of views for TikTok videos summarizing Hollywood movies and shows  —  With machine translation, dubbing apps and VPNs, Chinese creators are shortening movies for Americans.

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Amazon plans to spend $1B+ per year to produce and release movies for theaters, starting with a few releases in 2023, and eventually 12 to 15 annually  —  Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend more than $1 billion a year to produce movies that it will release in theaters …

Masha Borak / Wired:
Experts say the vast majority of independent Uyghur-run websites have ceased to exist after Beijing’s crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region  —  China’s Muslim minority used to have its own budding cluster of websites, forums, and social media.  Now that’s been erased.