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Libraries struggle to afford the demand for e-books and seek new state laws in fight with publishers
Libraries across the U.S. are struggling to cover the cost of e-books, which have grown in popularity.
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George Carlin Estate Sues Creators of AI-Generated Comedy Special in Key Lawsuit Over Stars’ Likenesses
"We have to draw a line in the sand," says daughter Kelly Carlin, who sued creators of an hourlong special titled 'George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead.'
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Copyright Remains A Complete Mess: A Tale In Two Stories
Here are two separate stories regarding the mess that is modern copyright law, that is now mostly “mediated” by companies that half-ass randomly deal with things and sometimes do not. While this is…
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The Copia Institute Tells The Copyright Office Again That Copyright Law Has No Business Obstructing AI Training
A little over a month ago we told the Copyright Office in a comment that there was no role for copyright law to play when it comes to training AI systems. In fact, on the whole there’s little for c…
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Trans woman, bookstore, teacher sue over Montana law banning drag reading events
The complaint calls the new law “a breathtakingly ambiguous and overbroad bill, motivated by anti-LGBTQ+ animus.”
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The Massive Fine The EU Hit Meta With… Is Really About The NSA, Not Meta
You may have heard the news that the EU hit Meta with a $1.3 billion fine for violating EU “data privacy rules” and assumed that this was just Meta being Meta and being bad about your privacy. But …
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Book Publishers Are Trying to Destroy Public E-Book Access in Order to Increase Profits
A recent ruling against the Internet Archive for copyright infringement threatens a treasured and critical public institution: our libraries.
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It's Debatable: The merits of requiring Bible reading, Ten Commandments in public schools
In this week's "It's Debatable" segment, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate whether Senate Bills requiring posting the Ten Commandments in public-school classrooms and permitting time for Bible reading and prayer violate the First Amendment.
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Giving Up the Ghostwriter
For over a decade, Kristin Loberg has quietly co-authored a long list of bestselling books for medical superstars like David Agus and Sanjay Gupta. Now she’s embroiled in a growing plagiarism scandal that has her celebrity clients worried sick
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AI-generated images from text can't be copyrighted, US government rules
Any images that are produced by giving a text prompt to current generative AI models, such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, cannot be copyrighted in the US. That's according to the US Copyright Office (USCO), which has equated such prompts to a buyer giving directions to a commissioned artist. "They identify what the prompter wishes to have depicted, but the machine determines how those instructions are implemented in its output," the USCO wrote in new guidance it published to the Federal Register.
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Supreme Court Allows Reddit Mods To Anonymously Defend Section 230
Mods tell SCOTUS that Reddit's special formula depends on Section 230 immunity.
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OWI vs DUI in Indiana | Ziemer Law, LLC
The difference between OWI & DUI in Indiana is only in the acronym. Make sure you have proper legal representation - call Ziemer Law for an OWI lawyer today.
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Axon evidence-storing system full of flaws, lawyer says, as police consider expansion
A defence lawyer says police's private American-provided evidence storing system is derailing criminal trials and letting in the wrong people.
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Little Rock Bankruptcy Lawyer
Little Rock Bankruptcy attorneys offering some of the best services in Little Rock for Chapter 7, Chapter 13, and more. Call today for your free, no obligation bankruptcy consultation (501) 244-9770
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Raising the drawbridge: why are so many Australians creating their own countries?
By some estimations, Australia hosts around a third of the world’s self-declared mini-kingdoms. There are three good reasons for that
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What is Fog Reveal? Police use new app to track people without a warrant
New tool shows where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit.
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Publishers Lose Their Shit After Authors Push Back On Their Attack On Libraries
On Friday, we wrote about hundreds of authors signing a letter calling out the big publishers’ attacks on libraries (in many, many different ways). The publishers pretend to represent the bes…
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Supreme Court rules sex without a condom requires separate consent from sex with a condom
People who don't wear condoms during sex after being told to by their sexual partners can be convicted of sexual assault, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled today. In its unanimous decision, the top court ruled that "stealthing" — the act of pretending to use a condom, or removing one prior to sex without the partner's consent — can violate the legal grounds for consensual sex.
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Right to repair: FTC forces Weber to tell grillmasters it’s OK to use third-party parts
The FTC is slowly cracking down on right-to-repair deniers.
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The Only One Setting Back Abuse Survivors Is Amber Heard (And The Media That Propped Her Up)
Johnny Depp has finally won his defamation case against Amber Heard. The jury decided that he proved Amber Heard intentionally defamed him with malice on every count and awarded him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.
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