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Courts Split Over AI Training Fair Use Rulings
Let’s Do Data Science: “U.S. courts remain split on whether training AI models on copyrighted material is fair use, after Judge William Alsup ruled in June 2025 that training on purchased, digitized books was fair use while Judge Vince Chhabria reached the opposite conclusion two days later in a related San Francisco case. The split …
Sony Erases Digital Content From Libraries
Wired – a Reminder That You Don’t Own What You Buy: “Sony recently informed its PlayStation customers in the United Kingdom that they will no longer be able to watch previously purchased movies and shows from production and distribution company StudioCanal. As of September 1, affected customers will no longer be able to stream 551 …
What Planantir CEO Told CNBC and Why Law Firms Should Listen
Brainyacts: What Karp Told CNBC and Why Law Firms Should Listen. Palantir’s CEO went on CNBC and bluntly described on live TV the exact trap your firm is walking into with AI. Not “AI is scary.” Sharper: you can pay a fortune, get modest value back, and quietly hand a vendor the three things that …
Yahoo Scout
“Yahoo Scout is the Intelligence Platform behind AI-powered features across Yahoo. It helps you gain insights, find recommendations and confidently take action more easily — right where you already use Yahoo. The Yahoo Scout answer engine curates information from Yahoo and the open web into clear, helpful summaries, explanations, and insights and guides you to …
The AI Resist List
Actions Against the Empire of AI: “AI takes many forms. Like the word “transportation”, it refers to a collection of technologies as diverse and distinctive as bicycles to rockets. But today, one version of AI takes all the oxygen: large-scale, generative systems that power products like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. These systems consume an unfathomable …
Publishers sue to shut down alleged pirated book site WeLib
Reuters: “A group of major book publishers including the “Big Five” English-language book publishing houses — Hachette, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — sued an alleged pirated book website for copyright infringement in New York federal court on Tuesday. The publishers said in the complaint, opens new tab that WeLib hosts …
UK media websites given power to block Google using their articles in AI search
The Guardian: “Watchdog makes ruling on search summaries after publishers complain about drop in click-through traffic and revenue. Online publishers and news organisations are now able to block their content from appearing in Google’s AI summaries in UK search results, the British competition watchdog has announced.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the new requirement …
When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing
Robert Glasser: “Are people using AI, or is the organization learning from it? What changed because we spent those tokens? And who moves discoveries from individuals to teams to organizational capabilities? Ethan Mollick has been writing about AI adoption in organizations for a while now. In Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd, he makes the …
Nonfiction Book Publishers Aren’t Remotely Ready for AI
New York Mag – Intelligencer [no paywall]: “Steven Rosenbaum started writing his book The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality in 2022, around when ChatGPT launched. Initially he didn’t use it at all, “But as the writing moved forward into 2023, 2024, it got better and I got better at using it,” he said. …
New WIPO Lex Collection Brings Trade Secrets Case Law into Focus
“The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched the WIPO Lex Trade Secrets Case Law Collection, a new online resource designed to improve access to judicial decisions relating to trade secret protection across jurisdictions. In an increasingly interconnected and innovation-driven global economy, effective intellectual property (IP) protection plays a vital role in promoting economic growth, …
Status of key US Munitions
CSIS – Download the Full Report: “Concern about the status of U.S. munitions inventories has intensified as reports emerge about high expenditures of Tomahawks, Patriots, and other missiles in the Iran war. As Operation Epic Fury remains paused in a shaky ceasefire, there is an opportunity to assess whether the U.S. military nears the point …
