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Written by pchestek on 2025-01-29 at 19:06

My latest article is now published, a topic only US trademark lawyers could love: "Claiming Priority to Submarine Trademark Applications—A Curious Little Loophole" https://www.americanbar.org/groups/intellectual_property_law/resources/landslide/2025-winter/claiming-priority-submarine-trademark-applications/ #trademark #trademarklaw #Section44

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Written by pchestek on 2025-01-28 at 20:16

@psorbi.bsky.social https://mastodon.online/@AdamOnza/113903790924398667

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Written by pchestek on 2025-01-23 at 20:40

Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

https://www.404media.co/developer-creates-infinite-maze-to-trap-ai-crawlers-in/

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Written by pchestek on 2025-01-20 at 19:53

Authors in Meta lawsuit are allowed another infringement theory - Meta's unlawful distribution of copyrighted works through seeding while downloading training materials using Bittorrent

https://torrentfreak.com/authors-seek-metas-torrent-client-logs-and-seeding-data-in-ai-piracy-probe-250120/

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Written by pchestek on 2025-01-16 at 20:04

Poppy Playtime Sues Google for Failing to Remove Copyright Infringing ‘Scam’ Apps - what is "expeditious"?

https://torrentfreak.com/poppy-playtime-sues-google-for-failing-to-remove-copyright-infringing-scam-apps-250116/

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Written by pchestek on 2025-01-15 at 00:27

Michale Willman asks to intervene in #WPEngine v #Automattic suit as a plaintiff, citing failure of Automattic to comply with injunction and attacks by #Mullenweg against Wilman https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.437474/gov.uscourts.cand.437474.70.0.pdf

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Written by pchestek on 2025-01-13 at 20:29

Hmmm ...

https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/113820521450833408

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Written by pchestek on 2025-01-10 at 18:50

So ... I asked ChatGPT what a particular company does. It not particularly helpfully spit out the company's own less intelligible marketing fluff and provided a link as the source - the source? Another generative AI website :eyeroll:

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Written by pchestek on 2025-01-07 at 23:35

Very helpful, ChatGPT

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Written by pchestek on 2025-01-07 at 21:06

Phew! Finished CA CLE credit requirements. Crazy! Required topics, in addition to legal substance, are ethics, elimination of bias (including one hour on implicit bias), competence (one hour of prevention and detection and one hour on wellness), technology, and civility

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Written by pchestek on 2024-12-20 at 18:08

Bold move to move to dismiss a claim that the court just granted a preliminary injunction for

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69221176/68/wpengine-inc-v-automattic-inc/

[#]Automattic #WordPress #WPEngine

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Written by pchestek on 2024-12-16 at 19:47

To Log Into WordPress, You Now Have To Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good

https://www.404media.co/wordpress-login-pineapple-on-pizza/

[#]Wordpress #Automattic #MattMullenweg

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Written by pchestek on 2024-12-12 at 22:37

Carys Craig, The AI-Copyright Trap: "Policy makers are increasingly being called upon to protect creators and the cultural industries from the extractive, exploitative, and even existential threats posed by generative AI. In their haste to act, they risk running headlong into the Copyright Trap: the mistaken conviction that copyright law is the best tool to support human creators in our new technological reality (when in fact it is likely to do more harm than good)."

https://tushnet.blogspot.com/2024/12/reading-list-carys-craig-ai-copyright.html

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Written by pchestek on 2024-12-12 at 20:09

Linux banned Russian contributors. Does my FOSS project need to worry about U.S. Sanctions?

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/dec/12/linux-banned-russian-contributors-do-i-need-to/

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Written by pchestek on 2024-12-12 at 20:05

Traffic Camera 'Selfie' Creator Holds Cease and Desist Letter in Front of Traffic Cam

https://www.404media.co/traffic-cam-photobooth-cease-and-desist/

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Written by pchestek on 2024-12-12 at 20:02

EUIPO does reverse domain name hijacking

https://domainnamewire.com/2024/12/12/european-union-intellectual-property-office-euipo-tries-reverse-domain-name-hijacking/

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Written by pchestek on 2024-12-12 at 18:50

@psorbi.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@TiciaVerveer/113640713931236887

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Written by pchestek on 2024-12-12 at 18:46

@psorbi.bsky.social https://c.im/@simbarr/113634770772911994

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Written by pchestek on 2024-12-11 at 18:39

[#]MattMullenweg responds https://www.404media.co/wordpress-wp-engine-preliminary-injunction/ #WordPress #Automattic #WPEngine

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Written by pchestek on 2024-12-11 at 00:32

WordPress platforms beware (if you hadn't figured it out already): "Defendants characterize WPEngine’s harm as self-imposed because it built its business around a website 'that it had no contractual right to use'."

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