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29 Jun 2025

Have LLMs broken fair use? Copyright Law
Two sets of authors sued Anthropic and Meta in San Francisco for copyright infringement, arguing that the companies had pirated their works to train their LLMs. Everyone agreed that a key question was whether fair use allowed it, and in both cases the courts looked at the fair use issue before dealing with other aspects of the cases. Even though the facts in both cases were very similar, last week two judges in the same court wrote opinions coming to very different conclusions. How can that happen? Is fair use broken?

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10 Mar 2025

Spreadsheet Harder Security

In response to ongoing concerns about the nation's budget deficit, the Treasury department has issued a directive that when calculating deficits, the sum of 2 and 2 will now be 3.

Technical experts in the accounting industry claimed that the results of addition are set by the laws of mathematics and can't be changed. The Treasury pushed back strongly.

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24 Nov 2024

Is Verisign a monopoly? Does it matter? ICANN
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Jerry Nadler recently wrote a latter complaining that VeriSign overcharges for for .com domains due to its market power and sent it to the Department of Justice and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA.) While you can make a reasonable case that the claim is true, two more interesting questions are ``Why now?'' and ``Why bother?"

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05 Sep 2024

Internet Archive loses their CDL appeal Copyright Law

The Internet Archive's Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) lends out scans of physical books, ensuring that each scan is lent to one person at a time. Publishers sued nd the Archive lost thoroughly in April 2023. The Archive appealed the decision to the Second Circuit court in New York. As I said at the time, the appeal seemed like a long shot since that is the same court that said that Google Books was OK, mostly because it didn't provide full copies of the books.

Yesterday the court published its decision and unsurprisingly, the Archive still lost.

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15 Apr 2024

Layers and Gateways, a historical view Internet

One of the major issues in building the Internet or any large network is internetworking. If you have two networks built and run by different entities, how do you connect them together? The Internet addressed this problem in two ways. One is by layering, so that consistent upper layers can hide differences in lower layers. (In my office I have devices using wired Ethernet, fiber, wifi, and 5G, all looking the same at the Internet level.) Another is gateways, connecting things togeher and translating the differences, which to some extent is what fiber modems and routers do.

But the Internet is hardly the first time these questions have arisen.

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