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Associate Dean for Research & Professor, Santa Clara Law. Internet Law, IP, Advertising Law. He/him. Website: http://www.ericgoldman.org. Email: [email protected]

Eric Goldman is a law professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. He also co-directs the law school's High Tech Law Institute and co-supervises the law school's Privacy Law Certificate. .. more

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David Kirkpatrick demonstrates how Trump has made $4 bn by illegally trading access to the White House to get rich. He controls the DOJ and the Congress so he won't be held accountable—until he doesn't control the DOJ and Congress. This is the day's essential read. www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...
Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion
In August, I reported that the President and his family had made $3.4 billion by leveraging his position. After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned.
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Sunset on the Mendocino Coast

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Cantus Cove Sunset
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At sunny Santa Clara for a conference on How It Started, How It’s Going in intellectual property, and speaking on how IP is going and what’s gone right in trademark law under the Lanham Act
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content
I was so completely flabbergasted by this article that I wrote a lengthy email to NCMEC about it, telling them to fix their CyberTipline reporting form whose UX enabled a huge overstatement of the scale of the AI-CSAM problem to go uncorrected for 6 months.

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This is so unhinged

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My writing today in the @sfstandard.com: Too many Silicon Valley leaders have divested themselves of the responsibility to speak out against the Trump administration.

We can’t shrink away and hope the crisis fades.

It’s time for all of us in tech to do and say more.

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Guest Blog Post: A Volcanic Opinion in the Fifth Circuit Destabilizes International Copyright Law—Vetter v. Resnik #LongRead

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By Prof. Tyler Ochoa
A Volcanic Opinion in the Fifth Circuit Destabilizes International Copyright Law—Vetter v. Resnik (Guest Blog Post) - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa [Eric’s note: this is another Long Read post from Prof. Ochoa, clocking in at over 10k words.] Territoriality is a fundamental principle of international intellectual prop...
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Personally I think this is too much money to give to Donald trumps poorly trained but heavily armed Militia

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“How can it not be equated with currying favor or an outright bribe?"

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Amazon’s Promotion of ‘Melania’ Has Critics Questioning Its Motives
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An assistant principal read the book "I Need a New Butt" to a class of second-graders. What should happen next?

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Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
Rep. Randy Fine on Ilhan Omar getting attacked: "I blame Ilhan Omar for what happened"
Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.
A few hours ago the msm unquestioningly repeated the White House spin that Trump had changed his “tone.”
Um, holy shit? This has gotta be up there in the most crass & worse things Trump has ever said

Amazon’s MGM studios spent tens of millions, but the documentary is projected to make just $1M in its first week.

This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD
Melania Documentary Flops as Crew Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Chaos
The first lady’s documentary was a mess in production—and now it’s struggling at the box office.
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This all feels like uncharted territory.
Can You Sue the White House Over an AI Deepfake?
The Trump regime's abuse of AI has opened up new legal questions.
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Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."

ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

Katy Perry urges her followers to call on their senators to block ICE from receiving an extra $10 BILLION in funding.

One problem with advocating for censoring unwanted political content on TikTok is that you might get your way

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I know these mandatory transparency laws for AI training data sound like a good idea, especially to some copyright folks, but it bears emphasizing that how a generative model is trained, including the datasets selected and excluded, is itself an exercise of editorial judgment, subject to 1A.

“You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple.” — FBI Dir. Kash Patel
Amidst the relentless lies coming from the federal government, this AI-manipulated photo stood out. When the government says "the memes will continue," it is really saying "the lies will continue" (until there are actual consequences for lying)

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White House Push AI-Altered Images Of Arrested ICE Protesters To Manufacture Cruelty
We are being led by deeply unserious people. Not only that, but people who are manufacturing cruelty upon their very own constituents. That’s how bad this has gotten. This week, the DOJ arres…
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