McCoy Smith
@McCoySmith
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Patent/IP/Open Source Lawyer @ Lex Pan Law. Cascadian: 🇺🇸 & semi-🇨🇦. Tweeting on (P), (R), (C), (Ɔ) & ⚽. Also at [email protected]
Oregon, USA
Joined June 2009
Interesting article, with twist at the end with the byline, but lost me on Google/Oracle, as if this lawyer's brilliant insight was to pivot from copyrightability to fair use. The case below was tried twice, first on copyrightability, then on fair use. https://t.co/WQJYN94Sjl
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Thomas Goldstein was a superstar in the legal world. He was also a secret high-stakes gambler, whose wild 10-year run may now land him in prison.
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Not a patent, just a published application: https://t.co/wVIldgXXuY And, let's face it, claim 1 is going nowhere in view of one-way machine screws.
BMW will make it harder to repair their cars "illegally"- The company has introduced patented screws with a logo-shaped head, which are currently only available to official dealers. These fasteners cannot be removed with standard keys, which could make independent repair and
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One wonders if, as a team building exercise, they took the $60 of Uber Eats delivered cookies and had the Cookie Monster toddler toy "eat" them.
There is an amazing legal saga playing out right now between JP Morgan Chase and Charlie Javice. Charlie’s legal team sent JP Morgan $74 million in bills including for $530 worth of gummy bears and $347 for three charcuterie boards for an “afternoon snack” Full list below:
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“🇨🇦 Prince Edward County, Canada”
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Not quantum mechanics. More like the Rutherford model from 30 years previous.
Oppenheimer perfectly explaining quantum mechanics in just 30 seconds
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Be pretty interesting to do this with legal texts before certain time periods (1789, 1865) to get a true originalist.
How did people in 1913 see the world? How did they think about the future? We trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts—no Wikipedia, no 20/20. The model literally doesn't know WWI happened. Announcing the Ranke-4B family of models. Coming soon: https://t.co/KOjbdLlH3S
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“Scalar”? Isn’t the antonym of binary “analog”? [unless we’re talking number base, then he should have said hexadecimal 😂]
American identity isn’t a scalar quality that varies based on your ancestry. It’s binary: either you’re an American, or you’re not. You are an American if you believe in the rule of law, in freedom of conscience & freedom of expression, in colorblind meritocracy, in the U.S.
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American identity isn’t a scalar quality that varies based on your ancestry. It’s binary: either you’re an American, or you’re not. You are an American if you believe in the rule of law, in freedom of conscience & freedom of expression, in colorblind meritocracy, in the U.S.
It’s great to see @VivekGRamaswamy stand up for what makes America exceptional: the idea that anyone who embraces American values and becomes a U.S. citizen is as American as anyone else.
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With all the Messi vs Müller hype, would be hilarious if game is decided by OG.
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You think, somewhere in Geneva, there was someone who was willing to say "Gianni, you're not a comedian. Don't try to do 'comedy'."
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Be interesting to revisit Bannon's filmography (as a producer) to see to what extent he relied on fair use. For example: https://t.co/lXJW9GMpni ("based loosely on" -- did you get a license?)
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The Indian Runner (1991) - Trivia on IMDb: Cameos, Mistakes, Spoilers and more...
Steve Bannon & other US conservatives just called for the government not to make AI training fair use. “It is absurd to suggest that licensing copyrighted content is a financial hindrance to a $20 trillion industry spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year.”
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Some thoughts on open source & patents: https://t.co/bZwwfMWQWF More detail on this in the chapter Malcolm Bain and I wrote in the Oxford University Press book, now available in Mandarin!
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I mean if you’re a criminal defense lawyer and want to drunkenly argue the basis for your arrest, you might as well do it in style: https://t.co/vhrDmD1yzz
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For a group match in Seattle; not even knockout stage. So possibly something like Qatar vs Curaçao. I mean pretty good seats, but who’s buying that other than Qatari emirs?
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Pretty interesting potential (C) claim here. Choreography can be the subject of (C) if fixed in a tangible medium (which this is).
Disney have been accused of blatantly plagiarising this fans fight choreography!
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“Kim needs to know that the bar exam is designed for law school graduates.” Don’t tell BARBRI!
Kim failed the bar exam She did not go to law school. She’s taking the exam under an “apprenticeship” CA is one of only a handful of states that still permit this Kim needs to know that the bar exam is designed for law school graduates
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“So you claim to be able to control use of an image for which you don’t own the copyright?”
“So you created a viral meme format that generates endless ad revenue and didn’t even watermark it?” “Yes, Dave.”
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