IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 29/03/2026One day all will be revealed and IP protected and commercialised ^GW 010
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 29/03/2026A very very proud day for me, in my home city of Glasgow, Scotland ^GW 000
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawFamilyBlawg - Family Law & Divorce @familyblawg.bsky.social · 29/03/2026☔️ 2033 LFG ^GW #familylaw 131
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Any other AI musicians on here? How the h3ll can you protect your work in the age of AI ? ^GW 000
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawGav Ward @gavward.bsky.social · 29/03/2026It 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 🌂 242
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawGav Ward @gavward.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I 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 … ..suno.comSet a good example v2Listen and make your own on Suno. 231
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawGav Ward @gavward.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Given 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 45513
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Double the number of such AI suits in 18 months? www.google.com/search?q=wha...google.comGoogle Search 000
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawLawyerJesse @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 231
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawLawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Want the sharpest legal take on the internet’s future? Join me on Fractionally Legal. Smart, bold, and uncensored. Sign up now: buff.ly/4htEC18 053
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025AI also took ChatGPT’s job, to some extent, last week ;-) 000
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawLawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 28/01/2025AI is coming for your job—doctor, lawyer, journalist, no one’s safe. Litigation will shape this epoch. Fractionally Legal is watching: buff.ly/4htEC18 182
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawJonathan Band @jonathanband.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Check out my new post of the implications of Oracle v. Rimini for generative AI: project-disco.org/intellectual...project-disco.orgThe Implications of Oracle v. Rimini for Generative AI - Disruptive Competition ProjectThe 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 013
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Thanks very much for sharing these insights. P.S. Loving Evelyn’s Playground . For my golden retriever Lord Rodger we found a street called Rodger Drive… While I can’t find the photo with that, I have found my next favourite. Me in background with him while Lucy is oblivious 🦁 000
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawEvelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Just 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. 2248
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawDaphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Never, 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. 15823
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawDerek Slater @derekslater.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Steven Soderbergh with some serious narrative violations on AI and creativity. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/ste... 031
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawDavid S. Levine @davidslevine.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I’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.businessinsider.comThey 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. 053
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025P.S. in addition to adding @franklingraves.bsky.social , will need to consider a further starter pack or, like I thought of yesterday, maybe FollowFridays this year that are done in the form of Starter Packs and will likely include most people who have been helping rebuild the IP law community 000
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Ah thanks very much for your comment and suggestion. Maybe you should do a guest article for said Kat publication ! ^G 100
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025P.S. @707kat.bsky.social you’ll probably know many more great IP law professionals than me - tips on how to set up starter packs quickly via the foot of this article I wrote wardblawg.com/2024/11/16/b...wardblawg.comBluesky for Lawyers: Top 5 #LawSky Tips inc Legal Starter Packs – Social Media as It Should Be | WardblawGWith more than 1 million sign-ups per day, Bluesky is emerging as a refreshing alternative to former social media networks, not least for lawyers, attorneys, barristers and advocates looking to share ... 010
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025You’re very welcome @707kat.bsky.social. You one of the OG Kats? 15 years ago Jeremy Phillips once kindly read my 10-part thesis on how to dominate the internet, provided some tips then kindly said he had lost the will to read any more of it as it needed more work. Candid feedback at its finest 🐱 210
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025@marklemley.bsky.social okay Lemley’s Law is now in Google and ChatGPT it would appear. At least from Scotland. Hopefully in CA too?! Best wishes, Gav 020
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025@patentbuddy.bsky.social thanks v much for sharing 🙏 000
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Thanks v much for your message. You’re one of the AI / IP / IT law stars too. Received a very kind message from Fiona last week via LinkedIn. Worth reaching out too perhaps @lilianedwards.bsky.social 020
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Would be great to find out - not sure who leads the IPKat since Jeremy retired 110
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Both beautiful thank you. Have published a couple of (amateur) piano videos from home via @gavward.bsky.social just there if you’d like to listen. 010
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Could you share a link to said YouTube video please? Bluesky is good for visibility in its algorithm this way... 100
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025P.S. Reed, @bringthehuman.bsky.social , don’t suppose you know anyone who could kindly set up an initial very short Wikipedia page to further share some of my work as a bit of a “legacy” please? I’ve been putting some good into the world recently… wardblawg.com/best-legal-t... 🙏 Gavwardblawg.comGav Ward, British Legal Technologist, Digital Strategist, Investor, Jurist & FuturistGav Ward is a British legal technologist, digital strategist, investor, jurist and visionary thinker, renowned for his expertise in legal publishing, legal technology adoption, digital marketing and a... 010
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Thank you. I was trained under Scotland’s Ally McBeal of IP Law, one of the 50 most powerful women in Scotland, Fiona Nicolson. This site has withered somewhat after 15 years but Bluesky and people like you are reinvigorating it 🙏 ^G 320
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawReed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I appreciate it! IP Blawg is awesome! 111
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025And, yes, Professor @lilianedwards.bsky.social has always been on it too ^ 120
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Just 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 ♦️⚖️👩⚖️ 474
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025@coreycottrell.bsky.social think you’ll enjoy this use of o1 🎮 ^ 110
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawArtificial Intelligence Institute @ekaya.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Google pushes global agenda to educate workers, lawmakers on AI www.reuters.com/technology/a...reuters.comGoogle pushes global agenda to educate workers, lawmakers on AIGoogle already faces a regulatory onslaught on many fronts. 042
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Interesting debate happening here on Bluesky re fair use of AI generated material 🍿 …our own personal views on this are contained somewhere within our 30,000 word Gav Ward Code thesis, which was helped by AI, and which has a set of 10 guiding principles. At the very least, credit where credit due 010
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Absolutely not 141
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawReed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025GenAI 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. 232
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025P.S. my favourite lines from within - a tale of dogs who are impervious to the (sometimes) toxic masculinity of men:- When up they gat, an' shook their lugs, Rejoic'd they were na men, but dogs; An' each took aff his several way, Resolv'd to meet some ither day. #codeispoetry #poetryiscode ^G 011
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... #burnsnightscottishpoetrylibrary.org.ukThe 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... 132
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 25/01/2025@marklemley.bsky.social hope this reads okay to you. Please do let me know if you'd like any changes made and have noted in the first undernote that it was only the eponymous observation that you contributed. Thank you again. Best wishes, Gav 020
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Introducing 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 #lemleyslawintellectualpropertyblawg.comIntroducing Lemley’s Law on AI Copyright Litigation Acceleration TrendsOkay 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... 294
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Copyright protection might not still exist but those ideas, paid forward in time, will be priceless. Maybe just not for that person’s own estate… #legacy 010
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawGyi Tsakalakis @gyitsakalakis.com · 11/01/2025This is the way. 111
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Thanks v much for reposting Sir @gyitsakalakis.com . Look out for Lemley’s Law, being created this weekend on the blawg. Have a great weekend with the family ^G 010
Reposted by IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI LawGyi Tsakalakis @gyitsakalakis.com · 07/01/2025The marketplace of ideas only works when people are allowed to freely debate important issues AND the best ideas emerge and spread. 131
IPBlawg - IP, Tech & AI Law @ipblawg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025@bringthehuman.bsky.social favorite Tolkien quote next please? One does not simply stop there cc @tolkiensociety.org ^G 🧙♂️♦️ 010