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Pamela Samuelson
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Professor, Berkeley Law School, who writes about challenges that new information technologies pose for intellectual property & other laws. Past Chair & member of Electronic Frontier Foundation Board & of Authors Alliance Board. Gardening is my best hobby .. more

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Pamela Samuelson is an American legal scholar, activist, and philanthropist. She is the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1996. She holds a joint appointment at the UC Berkeley School of Information. She is a co-founder and chair of Authors Alliance and a co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. She is recognized as a pioneer in digital copyright law, intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. .. more

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 14h
From the Supreme Court opinion granting Trump immunity:

"Investigative & prosecutorial decisionmaking is the special province of the Executive ... allegations that the requested investigations were shams or proposed for an improper purpose do not divest the President of [his] exclusive authority"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14h
Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals
Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals
Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals * US politics live – latest updates A federal grand jury indicted Letitia James, the New York attorney general, for bank fraud on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter. Lindsey Halligan, the US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, personally presented the case to the grand jury on Thursday, the person said. US attorneys do not typically present to a grand jury. Continue reading...
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1d
The deluge of AI-generated videos featuring deceased public figures has already forced OpenAI to change the way Sora handles copyrighted works.
Dead celebrities are apparently fair game for Sora 2 video manipulation
OpenAI’s likeness protections for living “public figures” don’t apply to “historical figures.”…
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Derek Slater @derekslater.bsky.social · 2d
See also variety.com/2023/artisan... (from 2023)

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus... (from this year)
‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking
Visual effects artists are turning to green screen AI tools from companies such as Runway to save time and money on productions.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 2d
Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?

I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.

futurism.com/artificial-i...
People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized
People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d
Grijalva: The frustration for me is that it seems as if Speaker Johnson is not willing to swear me in because our politics are a little different, or because I’m going to be the 218th signer—he can just continue to drag this along with no end in sight.

That is not a foundation of our democracy.
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Anna Hickey @annahickey.bsky.social · 2d
There's an overwhelming amount of litigation surrounding the Trump administration so over at @lawfaremedia.org we have tried to make it easier to parse it. You can find district court, appellate level, and SCOTUS cases all in one place!

Check it out ⬇️
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Pamela Samuelson @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social · 2d
Timeline cleanse. Not enough Cabernet grapes to make wine but good on cereal
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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 2d
The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.
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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 2d
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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 3d
LIAR
HE KNOWS

GHISLAINE MAXWELL
He knew what SCOTUS did

Pardon on the horizon?

Swear in Adelita Grijalva
Release the Epstein Files
#EpsteinFiles
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d
'Judge April M. Perry of Federal District Court in Northern Illinois, a Biden appointee, pressed Trump administration lawyers for more information about National Guard assignments in the, describing herself as “very troubled by the lack of answers.”'

{ gift link } www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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Frank Calabrese @frankcalabrese.bsky.social · 3d
Judge April Perry just set oral arguments for the National Guard lawsuit for Thursday. Illinois v. Trump.
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Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · 6d
Note that most authors will only get $1,500 per book -- the publisher will get the other half. More from the NWU: nwu.org/anthropic/
Settlement of AI lawsuit gets tentative approval; some writers will get paid, but mostly only if they make claims | NWU
On September 25, 2025, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California gave preliminary (tentative) approval to a proposed $1.5 billion settlement of some of the...
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UC Berkeley Law @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · 6d
Dean Chemerinsky comments on “a pattern of ignoring court orders or trying to circumvent them,” and "a case in which he represents University of California faculty and researchers challenging Trump administration cuts to NSF funding." www.latimes.com/california/s... via @latimes.com
Trump uses repeated funding cuts to pressure California, complicating state's legal fight
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta has sued the Trump administration more than 40 times. He says President Trump disregards the rule of law and overstates his control of federal funding.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6d
🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 7d
Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

It's also a violation of academic freedom and the First Amendment of the Constitution

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7d
By my read, the only way for a university to comply with this compact is to gut their social sciences, arts, and humanities, and a good chunk of their sciences, too.

www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 7d
Is Humphrey’s Executor headed for Slaughter? - SCOTUSblog www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/is-h...
Is Humphrey’s Executor headed for Slaughter?
Major Questions is a recurring series by Adam White, which analyzes the court’s approach to administrative law, agencies, and the lower courts. Please note that the views of outside contributors […]
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 9d
Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 10d
“YouTube to Pay $24.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit Brought by Trump” electionlawblog.org?p=152303
"YouTube to Pay $24.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit Brought by Trump" #ELB
WSJ: YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit that President Trump brought against the company and its chief executive over its suspension of Trump’s account after that year’s ...
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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 10d
More briefs are landing, including @eff.org, @authorsalliance.bsky.social, @brianlfrye.bsky.social, @rtushnet.bsky.social, @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social, Edward Lee, Christopher Jon Sprigman, @ccianet.bsky.social, @progresschamber.org, @netchoice.bsky.social, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social …
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10d
President Trump's executive order that aims to decimate the 14th Amendment is blatantly illegal.

We will continue fighting to protect the right to birthright citizenship.
Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold birthright citizenship restrictions he wants to impose
President Donald Trump's administration is asking the Supreme Court to uphold his birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10d
Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11d
Exclusive: The Pentagon, alarmed at the low weapons stockpiles the U.S. would have on hand for a potential future conflict with China, is urging its missile suppliers to double or even quadruple production rates on a breakneck schedule.
Exclusive | Pentagon Pushes to Double Missile Production for Potential China Conflict
U.S. military leaders are urging defense contractors to increase assembly of 12 critical weapons.
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 11d
Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.
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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 11d
So exhausting..
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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 15d
Copyright law doesn't protect what people seem to want it to protect. This talk by Pamela Samuelson @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social was very enlightening.
icml.cc/virtual/2025...
ICML Invited Talk Generative AI's Collision with Copyright LawICML 2025
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 16d
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
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