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California’s Proposed Fix to the Journalism Crisis Is Unconstitutional and Worse Than Socialism (Comments on the California Journalism Protection Act, CJPA)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

California’s latest entry into this Internet death-spiral is the California Journalism Protection Act (CJPA, AB 886). The CJPA engages with a critical problem in our society: how to ensure the production of socially valuable journalism in the face of the Internet’s changes to journalists’ business models?

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When a Copyright Owner Gets Only a $1,000 Judgment in Federal Court, They’re the Real Losers–McDermott v. KMC

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

McDermott kept the copyright to those photo and granted NY Post a license. McDermott argued that KMC was sophisticated about copyright law because the person who attached the photo to the bio had a journalism background. McDermott had not actually licensed the photo to anyone else to set a baseline license fee.

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A Quick Journey Through the Expanding World of AI and Copyright Litigation

Velocity of Content

Just three short years ago, copyright litigation discussions centered around whether it is fair use to copy declaring code or make unlicensed use of Lynn Goldsmiths photographs of Prince. Some of them are class action lawsuits, which are not very common in copyright land (though not unheard ofremember the Google Books litigation ?)

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GitHub is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative Commons Licensing

Velocity of Content

I have had people tell me with doctrinal certainty that Creative Commons licenses allow text and data mining, and insofar as license terms are observed, I agree. Full disclosure: CCC offers RightFind XML, a service that supports licensed commercial access to full-text articles for TDM with value-added capabilities.) GitHub Inc.,

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

Patently-O

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs: Historical Perspective and Infringement Analysis

Velocity of Content

The full article can be read in the Journal of the Copyright Society. The answer to this conundrum may simply lie in the time-tested solution that has proven successful during earlier periods of technological advancement: licensing. Various licensing models could play a crucial role in this progress.

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Joseph E. Walsh Jr. and Michael Kella Offer Protective Steps for Software Purchasers in The Licensing Journal

LexBlog IP

Without thorough due diligence, purchasers may be exposing themselves and their companies to costly litigation, unforeseen limitations on use of the software and, even, unexpected competition. READ THE ARTICLE IN THE LICENSING JOURNAL HERE. READ THE ORIGINAL POST HERE.