If AI generates something that looks like your work without crediting you, is that a DMCA violation? In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler break down Doe v. GitHub and the Ninth Circuit’s ruling on AI-generated code and copyright management information.
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Over the last twenty years, legal professionals have filled the web with blogs, client alerts, white papers, and more. This digital publishing created a massive body of secondary law.
However, this publishing was built for a human-centric, URL-driven web. While web links and RSS feeds allowed us to browse and cite, they suffer from two major vulnerabilities: Link rot by…
“Authenticity is still key for smaller brands, so founder-led content is really important,” Leif Fry, a one-time successful entrepreneur who heads a fund that purchases e-commerce brands, told Corissa Steiner for an article in the New York Times Tuesday.
The translation for Steiner meant “smartphone videos showing the founder speaking directly to the camera.”
I really don’t do smartphone videos,…
Rather than courts punishing pro se litigants for false citations from hallucinations when they may not know what a citation is, let’s look at ways to leverage AI to help people with the law.
From Mark Fucile writing for the Washington State Bar Association/@WAStateBar’s NWSidebar,
“This past month, courts in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho all wrestled with ‘hallucinated’ citations generated…
The spokesperson looks real, but what if no human ever existed? In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler break down SB 1050, California’s new law requiring disclosures when ads prominently feature synthetic performers.
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“I wish we still had Google Reader.”
I hear that regularly, the most recently from a professional a copywriter who’s helping us on our site incorporating The Library at LexBlog.
Google Reader was a RSS reader that enabled one to subscribe to RSS feeds from blogs, newspaper sites, websites and what have you. The New Times, I recall then, had…
In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin Partners Scott Hervey and Richard D. Buckley, Jr. break down the growing legal scrutiny around Polymarket, including allegations involving fabricated trading videos, undisclosed influencer payments, and coordinated reposting networks.
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Yesterday, Dave Winer shared that librarians are the unsung heroes of the web. It’s so true, just read the points Winer made.
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We may not be all the way there yet, but the Library at LexBlog will start doing its part on the access to justice front.
I hadn’t thought of sharing my thinking on this front until LawDroid announced the LawDroid Hackathon, a virtual, global, open-source competition presented in partnership with Lagniappe Law Lab and the Legal Services National Technology Assistance…
Got into a discussion over on LinkedIn, today, about the lack of legal citations by legal bloggers with CarolynElefant who said “After 23 years of blogging, the common practice of not hyperlinking by most bloggers is my biggest pet peeve. What do you think Kevin O’Keefe?”
Legal bloggers do a poor job of linking – at least as to each…
