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29 Jun 2025
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?
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/fairwhat.html
10 Mar 2025
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.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Security/harder.html
24 Nov 2024
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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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/vermonop.html
05 Sep 2024
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.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/archappeal.html
15 Apr 2024
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.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/gauge.html
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