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Tech Platforms and News Media: California Cuts a Deal with Google, While Meta Walks Free

Hugh Stephens Blog

Image: Shutterstock (AI assisted) The ongoing financial tug-of-war between large tech/social media platforms and news media outlets, with governments trying to play a mediator/arbitrator role, has taken another turn with the announcement that California has cut a deal with Google, similar in principle to the one reached in Canada at the end of last year.

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Thinking About an Old Copyright Case and Generative AI

The Illusion of More

The first copyright case decided at the U.S. Supreme Court was Wheaton v. Peters in 1834. There were six justices at the time, including the oft-quoted Joseph Story, and in a 4-2 decision, the Court made what I believe was a textual and, therefore, doctrinal error. The allegedly infringed works at issue were published reports […] The post Thinking About an Old Copyright Case and Generative AI appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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ACE Goes After Fmovies Sister Site ‘Successors’

TorrentFreak

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment ( ACE ) is arguably the world’s most active anti-piracy coalition. The group systematically hunts down key piracy players on behalf of the major Hollywood studios and other prominent entertainment companies such as Apple, BBC, and Netflix. It’s safe to say that ACE had a hand in the demise of most large piracy operations of recent years.

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Linker from a Grok Land

Likelihood of Confusion

Originally posted 2005-01-28 09:36:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterDoing my morning website traffic analysis, I noticed an extraordinary traffic spike, not to the blog, but to our firm website. What gives? Thankfully, my terrific hosting company, Capalon in Baltimore, provides great tracking tools. Turns out that we got a link from the ultra-impressive GROKLAW website.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Glassdoor Denied Section 230 Immunity for Reviews from Non-Employees–Nicholas Air v. Glassdoor

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is a confusing case with the troubling outcome that Glassdoor could be liable for third-party reviews despite Section 230. The case is confusing in part because it involves two companies that seem like they are alter egos of each other (the court describes them as “closely related”). “Nicholas Air acts as the brand, and Corr Flight employs ‘all employees who perform duties for the Nicholas Air brand.'” Indeed, in this litigation, Nicholas Air’s in-house l

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