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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Follow them #iplaw
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FamilyBlawg - Family Law & Divorce @familyblawg.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
☔️ 2033 LFG ^GW #familylaw
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Gav Ward @gavward.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
It was near this spot that I invented star mapping . 2026 One of my proudest achievements, in addition to being a father and a premadonna . Music is the silence between the notes . #codeispoetry 🌂
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Gav Ward @gavward.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I just made some AI music #fleetwoodmad style @fleetwoodmacnews.bsky.social suno.com/s/qKiWrb5fXg... What do you think? It’s about the children coming first … ..
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Set a good example v2
Listen and make your own on Suno.
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Gav Ward @gavward.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Given that lawyers here may want to follow accounts and connections related to their legal practice areas I’ve set up the starter packs below. Hope this helps expand and connect more legal communities. Reposts gratefully received and if anyone wants added to any just ask ^G #lawsky #law #legaltech
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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"AI companies are being sued for using copyrighted content without paying creators. Compensation or free information—which side are you on? Let’s debate: buff.ly/4htEC18
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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Want the sharpest legal take on the internet’s future? Join me on Fractionally Legal. Smart, bold, and uncensored. Sign up now: buff.ly/4htEC18
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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
AI is coming for your job—doctor, lawyer, journalist, no one’s safe. Litigation will shape this epoch. Fractionally Legal is watching: buff.ly/4htEC18
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Jonathan Band @jonathanband.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Check out my new post of the implications of Oracle v. Rimini for generative AI: project-disco.org/intellectual...
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The Implications of Oracle v. Rimini for Generative AI - Disruptive Competition Project
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just issued a decision that on its surface appears to be a straightforward interpretation of the Copyright Act
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Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Just a great time for all the liberal justices to be spelling out how deferential we should be to legislative and executive branch assessments of "national security" interests even if they result in huge speech suppression.
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Never, ever let anyone tell you that there is no "moderator's dilemma" in the U.S. because of Section 230. Not when it took Vimeo SIXTEEN YEARS of litigation to defeat claims that ordinary content moderation created "knowledge" or "control," hence forfeiting the DMCA safe harbor for copyright.
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Derek Slater @derekslater.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Steven Soderbergh with some serious narrative violations on AI and creativity. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/ste...
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David S. Levine @davidslevine.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I’ve been focusing on this issue for nearly 20 years. Trade secret law is blind to the public’s interest in info, and that’s a problem. If the reporter had contacted me, I’d have focused him on that simple fact. It makes trade secret law the most powerful IP law for preventing info access.
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They spoke out against their employer. Then trade secrets law was used against them.
Companies have hit whistleblowers with trade secrets suits over actions like saving code to GitHub or printing documents for remote work.
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
@patentbuddy.bsky.social thanks v much for sharing 🙏
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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I appreciate it! IP Blawg is awesome!
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Just double-checking , so our IP & AI Law & Policy Starter Pack has always included the great @marklemley.bsky.social and have added @bringthehuman.bsky.social too thanks to recent conversation. It’s at 150/150 now so you’ll really need to impress to make it onto it ;-) go.bsky.app/5TsAHdR ^G ♦️⚖️👩‍⚖️
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Artificial Intelligence Institute @ekaya.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Google pushes global agenda to educate workers, lawmakers on AI www.reuters.com/technology/a...
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Google pushes global agenda to educate workers, lawmakers on AI
Google already faces a regulatory onslaught on many fronts.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Absolutely not
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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
GenAI has many uses, and it is fair use to train on copyrighted material (just to be clear), but don't use it to be lazy and shirk your creative responsibilities.
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
@bradheath.bsky.social @marklemley.bsky.social The Twa Dugs? Happy Burns Night as I type this from the Land O'Burns in Ayrshire in Scotland. Best wishes for better times ahead. Gav 🐕⚖️ P.S. I recited this off by heart back in primary school www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-twa... #burnsnight
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The Twa Dogs. A Tale.
'Twas in that place o' Scotland's isle, That bears the name o' auld King Coil, Upon a bonnie day in June, When wearin' thro' the afternoon, Twa dogs, that were na thrang at hame, Forgather'd ance upon...
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Introducing Lemley's Law on AI Copyright Litigation Acceleration Trends www.intellectualpropertyblawg.com/copyright-la... (Term observed by Professor Mark A. Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social, coined by Gav A. Ward @gavward.bsky.social) #iplaw #copyright #genai #ailaw #lemleyslaw
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Introducing Lemley’s Law on AI Copyright Litigation Acceleration Trends
Okay so one evening last week, our Editor Gav A. Ward posted these thoughts on social media in respect of Moore’s Law as applied to the practical lifespan of copyrighted material:- Does Moore’s Law wo...
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Gyi Tsakalakis @gyitsakalakis.com · 11/01/2025
This is the way.
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Gyi Tsakalakis @gyitsakalakis.com · 07/01/2025
The marketplace of ideas only works when people are allowed to freely debate important issues AND the best ideas emerge and spread.
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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
If you try to use #ChatGPT, EVEN the "SearchGPT" function, with #Boolean keywords, you will utterly fail. It is a whole different type of searching the web (and again, you ONLY do that with " #SearchGPT," NOT regular ChatGPT). #onlineliteracy #infolit reedhepler.substack.com/p/understand...
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Understanding and Using ChatGPT Search
It is NOT a Search Engine, But It CAN Search the Web
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Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"I'm never leaving while you're still... not... leaving."
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
On remand, the district court in the Bad Spaniels dog toy case holds that the toy is a parody that doesn't confuse consumers, but DOES tarnish the Jack Daniel's mark by associating it with poop. This is an unfortunate consequence of the Supreme Court ruling allowing the dilution claim to survive
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jimmy alto @jimmyalto.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“This case is about dog toys and whiskey” “two items seldom appearing in the same sentence.” www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/u...
A bottle of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey sitting next to a Bad Spaniels chew toy on a wooden table. The two items have nearly identical fonts, graphic designs and shapes.

“This case is about dog toys and whiskey,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote for a unanimous court, “two items seldom appearing in the same sentence.”

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the First Amendment did not protect a chew toy for dogs resembling a bottle of Jack Daniel’s from a lawsuit claiming trademark infringement.
The toy, the Bad Spaniels Silly Squeaker, has the shape and other distinctive features of a bottle of Jack Daniel’s but with, as an appeals court judge put it, “lighthearted, dog-related alterations.”
The words “Old No. 7 Brand Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey” on the bottle are replaced on the toy by “the Old No. 2, on your Tennessee carpet.” Where Jack Daniel’s says its product is 40 percent alcohol by volume, Bad Spaniels’ is said to be “43 percent poo.”
A tag attached to the toy says it is “not affiliated with Jack Daniel Distillery.”
Justice Elena Kagan, writing for a unanimous court, seemed amused by the dispute. “This case is about dog toys and whiskey,” she wrote, “two items seldom appearing in the same sentence.”
She added that the characteristics of the whiskey bottle were familiar to almost everyone.
“A bottle of Jack Daniel’s — no, Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey — boasts a fair number of trademarks,” she wrote. “Recall what the bottle looks like (or better yet, retrieve a bottle from wherever you keep liquor; it’s probably there).”
After reproducing a color photograph of the bottle, she continued: “‘Jack Daniel’s’ is a registered trademark, as is ‘Old No. 7.’ So too the arched Jack Daniel’s logo. And the stylized label with filigree (i.e., twirling white lines). Finally, what might be thought of as the platform for all those marks — the whiskey’s distinctive square bottle — is itself registered.”
Trademark cases generally turn on whether the publi…
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Genius from a law professor cc @lawprofblawg.bsky.social #copyright #iplitigation #lemleyslaw
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Third Edition, written in the style of Lord Denning. Third time lucky 🤞 chatgpt.com/share/6792bb... #copyright #futureoflaw ^G
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ChatGPT - Copyright and Technological Evolution
Shared via ChatGPT
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Is Moore's law of copyright and generative AI that the number of AI copyright suits doubles every 18 months? 😀
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Does Moore’s Law work in a similar way to the practical application and enforcement of copyright law? Here are my and (mostly) AI’s thoughts on the subject chatgpt.com/share/6792b6... Enjoy, share, comment, pay it forward. Thank you. ^G #copyright #law #intellectualproperty #ailaw
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ChatGPT - Copyright Lifespan and Technology
Shared via ChatGPT
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Joshua Lenon @joshualenon.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Jack Newton, CEO and co-founder of @goclio.bsky.social, is spending his TeamDay keynote recentering #TeamClio to our mission: ‘Transforming the legal experience for all.’ ‘If we succeed, it won’t be an incremental change. It will be an audacious metamorphosis that brings #A2J to everyone.’
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
@denniscrouch.bsky.social thanks very much for following Sir - looks like you’re very well connected in the IP and AI law space ^G
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CommercialBlawg - Business Law News + Press @commercialblawg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
2 of 5 - IP protection is a cornerstone of business law. It’s not just about safeguarding innovations but also ensuring a company’s value is protected during M&A. Poor IP due diligence can derail deals. Follow @ipblawg.bsky.social for the latest on IP in business law.
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Here's to the next 55 ;-) #LawSky #IP #Law #Copyright ^G
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
ICYMI
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Jennifer M. Lane @jennifermlanewrites.com · 04/12/2024
I'm honored to be a part of this starter pack of Author's Guild members, and I'm proud that my membership in America's oldest writer's guild protect free speech, honor copyright, and ensure fair compensation practices. Follow here: go.bsky.app/4hXrQRu
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Copyright Literacy @copyrightliteracy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Just created a new Starter Pack for Copyright Library folks go.bsky.app/HNE6FKF
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
There's an EU Policy one and a Copyright nerds one (US), but not an EU one. bsky.app/starter-pack...
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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 05/12/2024
A starter pack of organizations in the Re:Create Coalition for balanced copyright (including @libraryfutures.bsky.social 🥰)! Follow follow! go.bsky.app/E3vgwHR
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Great thread here re #ai #copyright #ailaw thanks very much @marshdavies.bsky.social - IP lawyers may want to add their two cents :-
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Ahem. FYI, the UK government's consultation on AI and copyright remains open until 25 February. www.gov.uk/government/c...
gov.uk
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
It should be balanced for all ⚖️ #davidvsgoliath
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Incredibly large disconnect
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IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Ooft
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
3. I have fired Meta as a client. While I think they are on the right side in the generative AI copyright dispute in which I represented them, and I hope they win, I cannot in good conscience serve as their lawyer any longer 4/4
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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I made a Law and Technology Scholars starter pack!
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Netopia.eu @netopia.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
#StarterPack emphasis on platforms, competition law, digital rights, tech regulation, press freedom, market dominance, surviellance capitalism, and tech landscape within EU (Copyright Directive, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, Digital Fairness Act, GDPR & AI Act). bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Since approximately gazillion people have joined lately, I’ve updated my extremely random starter pack of UK and Europe tech, AI, law & policy folk go.bsky.app/TJ2xTce
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