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Vegar Waage
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Lawyer, Copyright/Media/Tech/Telecom. Oslo, Norway.
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eivind1984.bsky.social
Valget er over, men kampen fortsetter. Jeg tror det er spesielt to ting som er viktig fremover: Kampen om hva folk tror er sant og riktig, og arbeid med institusjonsbygging. De henger litt sammen. Velkommen til min rant for å få dette ut av hodet:
September 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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einarwilly.bsky.social
Stemmer teller, ressurser avgjør. Nå bør et nytt Storting fort som svint skjerpe reglene for valgkampfinansiering å tette høla slik at ikke styrtrike enkeltpersoner eller andre kan få lov til å kjøpe neste valg. De har hatt stor innflytelse denne gangen. Kanskje er det siste sjanse.
September 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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lukaszolejnik.bsky.social
📣AI propaganda factories🏭 are now operational. My study shows how small, open-weight models can run as fully automatic generators in influence campaigns. mechanising personas, engagement, cadence. Possible for State, non-state, and micro-actors, including and bedroom ones.
August 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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maiamindel.bsky.social
Like if you don't think centrists use their own impenetrable jargon that nobody likes then I have a commonsense bipartisan opportunity economy where existential threats to fair trade are a national security threat to sell you
August 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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questauthority.bsky.social
Gen AI out here making the case for strong moral rights.
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 8
You know that classic Edward Hopper painting evoking isolation and despair? We used AI to make it look terrible for no reason
August 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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questauthority.bsky.social
OK, gather 'round, kiddies - let's do a "why are lawyers like this" thread.

Specifically, let's do a "why does the simplest software come with mandatory IP licenses that assert claims to all the rights you have in the universe, up to and possibly not excluding in your firstborn offspring.
ramiismail.com Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Jul 14
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI
July 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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leyawn.bsky.social
dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers
June 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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lukaszolejnik.bsky.social
Meta and Russian Yandex engaged in unprecedented internet tracking practices, likely illegal with EU data protection law. localmess.github.io
June 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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noyb.eu
🤖 Unless you opt-out by May 27th, #Meta will use your data from Instagram and Facebook for #AI training. noyb is now looking into taking legal action.

🙅 Here's where you can object:
🔹 www.facebook.com/help/contact...
🔹 help.instagram.com/contact/7672...
noyb sends Meta 'cease and desist' letter over AI training. European Class Action as potential next step
noyb has sent a cease and desist letter to Meta demanding that the company halt its AI plans in the EU
noyb.eu
May 26, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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lukaszolejnik.bsky.social
As Google integrates AI to deliver information directly in search results, the incentive to create or maintain websites — including news platforms — is fading. With instant answers, people won’t need to click through. The web will shrink to a few walled garden platforms.
May 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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pressgazette.co.uk
How Google forced publishers to accept AI scraping as price of appearing in search

Court documents reveal Google considered giving publishers AI opt-out and rejected the idea pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ho...
How Google forced publishers to accept AI scraping as price of appearing in search
Court documents reveal Google considered giving publishers AI opt-out and rejected the idea.
pressgazette.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
CJEU, freedom of expression

Advocate General's opinion: Hungary breached EU law by cutting opposition radio station out of broadcasting spectrum curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
Press release summary of the opinion. Full text in the link
April 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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filternyheter.no
Massakren i Butsja, massegravene i Izium – det er som om disse grusomhetene aldri skjedde. Rett foran øynene våre formes en ny verdensorden der sannhet ikke eksisterer, skriver ukrainske Oleksandr Mykhed.
«Nå lytter verden til Russland igjen. Fra ruinene i Ukraina får jeg lyst til å skrike» - Filter Nyheter
Oleksandr Mykhed er en skribent bosatt i Kyiv som har tjenestegjort i forsvaret av Ukraina og tidligere har skrevet boken «The Language of War» om det første året av fullskalainvasjonen. Ordre og utta...
filternyheter.no
March 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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alexandrageese.bsky.social
The US blackmailing Europe: particularly revealing the section on „freedom of speech“. While X suppressed Green and socialdemocratic accounts in the German elections, the US claims that any attempt to create a level playing field for all political opinions will be countered with trade sanctions.
February 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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maxbank.bsky.social
🚨Breaking news: with the new term, the European Comission increases transparency massively. From now on, more than 1500 officials need to disclose lobby meetings and minutes, 1100 more than before. 10 years ago, we came up with this demand. Now it is reality. Persistence works.
December 6, 2024 at 9:28 AM
waaqe.bsky.social
Bjarne Melgaard-dommen er nå tilgjengelig på @lovdata.bsky.social: lovdata.no/avgjorelse/t...
Oslo tingrett - Dom: TOSL-2023-140407
En billedkunstner hadde inngått en rekke kunstavtaler med to forretningsmenn. Hovedspørsmålet for tingretten var om hovedavtalen mellom partene skulle settes helt eller delvis til side eller endres i ...
lovdata.no
December 5, 2024 at 8:43 AM
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jpquintais.bsky.social
European Copyright Society Opinion on CJEU MIO/konektra cases, available now on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/12/04/e...
European Copyright Society Opinion on CJEU MIO/konektra cases - Kluwer Copyright Blog
Yesterday, the European Copyright Society (ECS) published its Opinion on the CJEU MIO/konektra cases C- 580/23 and C-795/23 (originality and infringement test of works of applied art).  The Executive ...
copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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vaspanagiotopoulos.com
On 5/12, a court in Athens will hear a defamation lawsuit against journalists who exposed state surveillance by 🇬🇷Greek authorities. The case, brought by PM’s nephew Grigoris Dimitriadis fits into the category of cases referred to as SLAPPs, writes @evacosse.bsky.social.

www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
Greek Surveillance Lawsuit Aims to Silence Journalism
On December 5, a court in Athens will hear a defamation lawsuit against journalists who exposed state surveillance by Greek authorities. The case fits into the category of cases referred to as “strate...
www.hrw.org
December 4, 2024 at 8:58 AM
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anarchoshanties.bsky.social
A [FAKE] tweet from South Korea's soon-to-be-ex-President Yoon Su, reading "The haters said we couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"
December 3, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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jsrailton.bsky.social
NEW: phone tapping to identify sources violated Hungarian journalist's rights.

European Court of Human Rights rules 🇭🇺 #Hungary:

☑️ Infringed Right to Privacy & Freedom of Expression.
☑️Lacked proper surveillance oversight & legal remedies.

🇭🇺Gov ordered to pay compensation, legal costs.👇
November 30, 2024 at 8:58 AM
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robin.berjon.com
If social media is done right, it should be a boon for news. Now imagine fixing search and ads and app stores the same way.

The truth is: online media doesn't need to invent a business model, as often claimed, it just needs the rent-seeking leeches to be fired from the internet.
mkarolian.bsky.social Matt Karolian @mkarolian.bsky.social · Nov 26
Traffic from Bluesky to @bostonglobe.com is already 3x that of Threads, and we are seeing 4.5x the conversions to paying digital subscribers.
November 26, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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alexjaffe.bsky.social
You used to call me on my self-own
melanism.bsky.social sean. @melanism.bsky.social · Nov 25
Drake just signed a legal document acknowledging "Not Like Us" did him great harm.

Is this not the biggest defeat in hip-hop history?
November 26, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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elainelow.bsky.social
Big Tech is training AI on thousands of TV/film scripts. I spoke to showrunners, IP and business affairs lawyers — as well as the programmer at The Atlantic who examined this data set — to find out what happens next

The latest Series Business @theankler.bsky.social
theankler.com/p/tv-writers...
TV Writers Found 139,000 of Their Scripts Trained AI. Hell Broke Loose
It's 'organized crime,' says one, as scribes from Shonda Rhimes to Robert King face a system where studio policy and law remain murky
theankler.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:46 PM