Category Archives: Legal

18Apr/23

The defamation lawsuit by Dominion against Fox and a timeline of key events leading up to the trial

April 18, 2023LegalBullying, Censorship, Crimes, Deception, Defamation, Dominion Voting Systems, Donald Trump, fox corporation, fox news, Human behavior, Lying, Social issues, Tort law, United Statesadmin

April 18, 2023 /Business/ — Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox Corporation and its Fox News Channel on March 26, 2021, alleging that the network defamed the company by repeatedly making false and defamatory claims about its voting machines in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.

The lawsuit alleged that Fox News hosts and guests, including former President Donald Trump, made false and defamatory claims about Dominion’s voting machines, including that they were “rigged” and “susceptible to hacking.” The lawsuit also alleged that Fox News’s coverage of Dominion’s voting machines was “reckless and false” and that it caused Dominion to suffer “severe and irreparable harm.”
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18Apr/23

ChatGPT: what the law says about who owns the copyright of AI-generated content

April 18, 2023LegalArticles, Artificial intelligence, Copyright, Copyright law, Creative Commons, Intellectual property law, Joe Sekhon, Law, Liu, Microsoft, Monopoly, Oleksandra Ozcan, Public domain, Public records, Sercan Ozcan, SHUTTERSTOCK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom copyright lawadmin

Sercan Ozcan, University of Portsmouth; Joe Sekhon, University of Portsmouth, and Oleksandra Ozcan, University of Portsmouth

The AI chatbot ChatGPT produces content that can appear to have been created by a human. There are many proposed uses for the technology, but its impressive capabilities raise important questions about ownership of the content.

UK legislation has a definition for computer-generated works. Under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 they are “generated by computer in circumstances such that there is no human author of the work”. The law suggests content generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) can be protected by copyright. However, the original sources of answers generated by AI chatbots can be difficult to trace – and they might include copyrighted works.

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17Jan/23

New ETC Insights Briefing

January 17, 2023LegalArticles, Bright green environmentalism, Low-carbon economy, Renewable energy, Renewable energy technology, Technological changeadmin

In its latest Insights Briefing, “Streamlining planning and permitting to accelerate wind and solar deployment”, the ETC highlights how governments, civil society and wind and solar developers can take action to reduce unnecessary delays caused by common planning and permitting barriers in renewables deployment whilst maintaining strong environmental, bio-diversity and social safeguards. Continue reading*———

06Oct/22

Various Claimants vs. Associated Newspapers Limited

October 6, 2022LegalAnjlee Sangani, Black British history, Callum Galbraith, Daily Mail, Daily Mail and General Trust, David Furnish, David Sherborne, Doreen Lawrence, Elizabeth Hurley, Elton John, Entertainers, Hamlins LLP, Harry, In England, London, Musicians, Reach plc, Sadie Frostadmin

London, 6 October 2022 /Press release/ — Today a group of people have launched a legal action against Associated Newspapers, publishers of The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and the Mail Online.

The group behind this legal offensive are: Baroness Doreen Lawrence of Clarendon OBE; Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex; Sir Elton John and David Furnish; Elizabeth Hurley; and Sadie Frost.
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05Aug/22

AXS LAW wins multimillion-dollar trademark infringement trial for the creator and owner of the BAOLI brand of restaurants and “My Boyfriend is Out of Town” theme party

August 5, 2022LegalChristophe Caucino, Collins, LLC, Culture, DJing, Market economics), Mathieu Massa, Miami, Nightclub, Peace United Ltd., Restaurants, Social groups, Trademark, Underground cultureadmin

On Friday, July 29, 2022, a federal jury in Miami returned a verdict of more than $8.5 million in favor of Peace United Ltd. and against 1906 Collins, LLC and Mathieu Massa, resulting in the return of the trademarks for the “Baoli” brand of restaurants and nightclubs and the “My Boyfriend Is Out of Town” theme party to their creator and rightful owner, Mr. Christophe Caucino. Continue read

20Jul/22

OPINION: Meta and hate speech in India

July 20, 2022LegalArticles, Censorship, civil society, Computing, Deborah Brown, Facebook, Frances Haugen, Freedom of speech, Harassment, Hate crime, Hate speech, Human Rights Impact Assessment, Human Rights Watch, India, Jayshree Bajoria, META, Meta Platforms, Moderation system, Social information processing, Social media, Sophie Zhang, Websites, World Wide Webadmin

Deborah Brown and Jayshree Bajoria are senior researchers at Human Rights Watch

Last week, Meta, formerly Facebook, released its first human rights report, which included some snippets from the pending Human Rights Impact Assessment on India. But this was not a preview of the full assessment. Rather, Meta told Human Rights Watch that it does not “have plans to publish anything further on the India HRIA,” an abdication of its commitment to transparency and due diligence.
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03Jul/22

Winston & Strawn Offers Travel Reimbursement for Out-of-State Abortion Services

July 3, 2022LegalAbortion, Abortion in Canada, Abortion in the United States, Case law, Judicial activism, Law, Law of the United States, Roe, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court of the United States, United States Supreme Court cases, Wade, Winston & Strawn, WINSTON & STRAWN LLPche

Winston & Strawn LLP announced that the Firm will reimburse travel expenses for personnel who have to travel out-of-state to obtain an abortion.

The Firm initiated this policy following the recent Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. As a result of that decision, the right to an abortion is now determined under state law. Continue reading

27Jun/22

Workers’ rights: how a landmark UN decision on safety and health will actually affect employees

June 27, 2022LegalArticles, Child labour, Cook Islands, Creative Commons, Decent work, Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Economy, Human activities, Huw Thomas, Industrial and organizational psychology, International labour law, International Labour Organization, Labor, Labor rights, Labour law, Occupational safety and health, SHUTTERSTOCK, United Nations Development Group, University of Bristol, Working conditionsche

Huw Thomas, University of Bristol

In what has been called the “biggest moment for workers’ rights in a quarter of a century”, the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted a safe and healthy work environment as one of its five fundamental principles and rights at work for all at its June 2022 international conference. This is the first extension of workers’ human rights in almost 25 years and it means governments must now commit to respect and promote the right to a safe and healthy working environment.

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