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Recent Privacy Regulations Concerning Automated Decision-Making Systems: Implications on AI Commercialization

IPilogue

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, academic discussions indicated that artificial intelligence (AI) would signify the fourth industrial revolution with tangible economic benefits and potential privacy concerns. Nowadays, privacy concerns exceed personal information protection. . Proposal for Artificial Intelligence Act (2021).

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PingĀ® October 2021 Changes Coming to Non-Compete Agreements in Illinois

LexBlog IP

The law does not apply to contracts covering confidential and proprietary information, protection of trade secrets, or inventions assignment agreements. Contract lawyers know that to be enforceable a promise must be supported by consideration. One-size-fits-all contracts always need fine-tuning. Mandatory Review. Consideration.

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Powering the Future: Insights on Energy Innovation from a Semester at Alectra (IP Intensive Reflection)

IPilogue

The work is cutting-edge, like 2021ā€™s GridExchange Pilot, a transactive, blockchain-backed energy platform and marketplace. Proper strategy, governance, processes, policies and contracts are needed to ensure any IP creation resulting from the collaboration and any real upside potential can be shared with Alectra.

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The Contested Meaning of Web3 & Why it Matters for (IP) Lawyers

Kluwer Copyright Blog

ā€œWeb3 cannot and should not be reduced to blockchain when the real shift is towards user ownership of digital assetsā€¦ This definitional shift focuses attention on what assets can be legally owned and the meaning of ownership ā€œrights,ā€ more generally, in the emerging digital spaces of web3.ā€. . user ownership of digital assets)?

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Can Facebook Stop Data Snarfers?ā€“Meta v. BrandTotal

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Any legal policy that encourages data snarfing must simultaneously contend with the potentially anti-competitive and anti-social effects of preventing legitimate players from snarfing, along with the potentially massive privacy and security risks that data snarfers create. ” Oof. BrandTotal sought summary judgment that Section 3.2.3

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Ironic Advocacy at Its Best: The Bay Apologizes to Hadiya Roderique for Copyright Infringement Mistake

IPilogue

Early July 2021, Roderique received a message from a friend who had visited The Hudsonā€™s Bay Company (The Bay) where she came upon Roderiqueā€™s photo for the companyā€™s ā€œ Charter for Change ā€ initiative. Section 13(3) states that if the photographer was contracted for work, the photos taken belong to their employer. The Legal Side.

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Once Again, LinkedIn Canā€™t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scrapingā€“hiQ v. LinkedIn

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court remains skeptical of LinkedInā€™s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. With that said, the Ninth Circuit did some serious hand-waving on the privacy issues. Eric’s Comments.