The government’s lawsuit against REPS & Company exposes an alleged industrial-scale ticket scalping operation. But who ...
The data-center backlash has crossed an important threshold. It is no longer principally a collection of zoning disputes, transmission fights, tax-policy arguments, and local environmental campaigns.
Every now and then you see one of those cases that makes you say which idiot thought it was a good idea to litigate this catastrophe rather than settle? Two juries—on opposite sides of the ...
Artists’ heirs are speaking out on AI abuse. Our filing for Abby North, Marcia Withers, Blake Morgan, Angela Rose White, Owen Elliot-Kugell, Georgia Music Partners, Louisiana Music Partners and the ...
The White House just released its AI policy framework, and buried inside the section on “Respecting Intellectual Property Rights and Supporting Creators” is one of the most revealing tells in the ...
The current case of Kaiser v. StubHub (No. 1:2024cv00044 (JLR) SDNY 2024) highlights the importance of arbitration clauses in online agreements. This is particularly true in the Kaiser case when the ...
Anyone who lived through the Dot Bomb era is reluctant to be branded a “Luddite” by the same people who were using technology to enrich themselves with one of the great free rides. But the humans who ...
In a recent post I argued that California’s speculative ticketing bill, AB 1349, represents an important step toward restoring basic honesty to the ticket resale market. The bill targets a practice ...
The Justice Department has a problem with Judge Vince Chhabria’s opinion in Kadrey v. Meta. Actually, it has two problems. First, DOJ likes Judge Chhabria’s conclusion that training a large language ...
The Justice Department has entered the consolidated New York Times v. OpenAI litigation with a remarkable proposition dressed up as an ordinary application of fair use: courts should effectively ...
C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is a satirical novel framed as correspondence from Screwtape, a senior demon, to his inexperienced nephew Wormwood. Screwtape advises him how to tempt and manipulate ...
If you saw the adverb “forever” in a contract, would it give you pause? It would me—I would wonder who allowed that to slip through. As text-to-audio generative AI models desperately try to normalize ...