The US Copyright Office, a federal district court and the DC Circuit have each held that copyright requires a human author, and registration was refused for a work presented as generated autonomously by a machine. A human's selection, arrangement or modification of AI material can still be protected, as in a 2023 decision on a comic with AI-generated images. UK law treats computer-generated works differently.
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The scientific community broadly agrees that social media can both benefit and harm children and adolescents. As stated in the APA's Health Advisory on Social Media Use in Adolescence, using social media is not inherently beneficial or harmful to young people. Adolescents' online lives both reflect and shape their offline lives. In most cases, social media effects depend on adolescents' personal and psychological characteristics and social circumstances, intersecting with the specific content, features, or functions offered by many social media platforms. In other words, social media effects likely depend on what teens can do and see online, their pre-existing strengths or vulnerabilities, and the contexts in which they grow up.
It is agreed that social media bans on their own do not automatically produce relief. Still, they can be part of the equation, as long as they're healthy bans that invest sufficient resources to support a rigorous evaluation.
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A concise case for Taylor Swift as her generation’s defining artist, combining commercial dominance, critical recognition, cultural influence, unprecedented records, and praise from the artists who defined previous generations.
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The UK’s adult social-care sector is facing a persistent workforce shortage, with tens of thousands of care positions remaining vacant across care homes, home-care services and other providers. Migrant workers have become an important part of this workforce, particularly following the expansion of the Health and Care Worker visa, which enabled overseas recruitment into eligible care roles.
The debate has intensified following proposals to extend the standard pathway to permanent settlement (indefinite leave to remain) from five years to as much as 15 years for some migrants, including lower-paid workers. This represents a potential additional 10 years before eligible workers can obtain permanent status.
Critics argue that the longer settlement period could make the UK less attractive to migrant care workers, encouraging existing workers to leave and discouraging potential recruits from coming to the country. The concern is that this could increase the number of unfilled social-care positions over the following five to ten years, worsening staffing pressures across the UK’s adult social-care sector.
Supporters of the policy argue that stricter settlement requirements could reduce the UK’s dependence on migrant labour and encourage employers to recruit and retain domestic workers. The central question is therefore whether extending the settlement pathway will strengthen immigration control or further deepen the social-care workforce shortage.