This week, we learned that the Supreme Court will indeed weigh in on the TikTok ban. Apparently, drug sales are flourishing on social media. Finally, hat tip to GeekPress for highlighting a post by Eugene Volokh on whether the promises made by chatbots can be legally binding. TikTok Appeal to Supreme Court Social Media and…
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Links for Week of September 29, 2023
This week, Bloomberg published an interesting overview on the copyright liability for using generative AI. In antitrust news, the FTC filed its case against Amazon this week. And, the FCC announced its intention to try to return to prior positions on Net Neutrality. Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Antitrust Net Neutrality
INTA 2007: Muddy waters: Evolving Law and Policy on Internet Advertising
I attended the session this morning at INTA 2007 on Internet advertising, specifically the focus was on keywords but popups were discussed as well. The speakers were Peter Becker of Microsoft, Laura Covington of Yahoo, Lauren Fisher of AOL, and Rose Hagan of Google. The most interesting part for me was a comparison of the…
RIP: Bitpass
I first wrote about Bitpass, a micropayment service, here, back in July of 2005. I was sad to read that the service will shut down as of January 26th. Matt Marshall at VentureBeat has a great article discussing the demise here.