Leftovers

• Science

  • Jim Nielsen ☛ Book Notes: “The Order of Time” by Carlo Rovelli

    When we do science, we want to describe the world in the most objective way possible. We try to eliminate distortions and optical illusions deriving from our point of view. Science aspires to objectivity, to a shared point of view about which it is possible to be in agreement.

    This is admirable, but we need to be wary about what we lose by ignoring the point of view from which we do the observing. In its anxious pursuit of objectivity, science must not forget that our experience of the world comes from within. Every glance that we cast toward the world is made from a particular perspective.

    I love this idea. Constantly striving for complete and total objectivity is like trying to erase yourself from existence.

    As Einstein showed, point of view is everything in a measurement. Your frame of reference is important because it’s yours, however subjective, and you cannot escape it.

    What we call “objectivity” may merely be the interplay between different subjective perspectives.

  • New York Times ☛ You Can Make Amber Fossils in 24 Hours, Instead of Millions of Years

    Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric fossilization of the real stuff.

  • University of Michigan ☛ Life Sciences Orchestra blends science and music for 25 years

    The U-M Life Sciences Orchestra is celebrating its 25th season of blending science and music by featuring amateur musicians of the medical and science community.

  • Science Alert ☛ 'Red Princess': Mysterious Skeleton With Dyed Teeth Is a Scientific First

    We've never seen this before.

  • Science Alert ☛ Mysterious Golden Orb Found at The Bottom of The Ocean

    "It's like the beginning of a horror movie."

  • Science Alert ☛ Mysterious 'Death Star' on The Verge of Exploding Is Hiding a Secret

    We don't know how this happens.

  • Science Alert ☛ Largest Carbon Molecules Found on Mars Build The Case For Ancient Life

    What made them?

  • Science Alert ☛ Your Brain Might Start 'Eating Itself' During Strenuous Endurance Exercise

    Don't worry, it's reversible.

  • Chronicle Of Higher Education ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Policies Could Send International Talent Elsewhere, Hobbling U.S. Science

    Funding cuts and immigration concerns might cast a long shadow.

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ Wearable Computing Goes Woven, Wireless, And Washable

    Sometimes we come across a wild idea that really tries to re-imagine things, and re-conceiving wearable computing as a distributed system of “fiber computers” embedded into textiles is definitely that. The research paper presents fully-functional fiber computers and sensors that are washable, weave-able, wireless, and resist both stretching and bending.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ U.S. asks Malaysia to 'monitor every shipment' to close the flow of restricted GPUs to China

    Malaysia to tighten GPU exports oversight amid U.S. pressure over Nvidia shipments to China.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Ant Group reportedly reduces Hey Hi (AI) costs 20% with Chinese chips

    Ant Group is utilizing Chinese semiconductors to enhance the efficiency of its artificial intelligence development.

  • Hackaday ☛ PPS Is The Hottest USB-C Feature You Didn’t Know About

    USB Power Delivery is widely considered to be a good thing. It’s become relatively standard, and is a popular way for makers to easily power their projects at a number of specific, useful voltages. However, what you may not know is that it’s possible to get much more variable voltages out of some USB chargers out there. As [GreatScott!] explains, you’ll want to meet USB-C PPS.

  • RealtimeKit and CPU Scheduling

    Take a look at your process tree, it’s likely that you might notice a new service: rtkit-daemon, the RealtimeKit Daemon. It seems nobody on the internet is talking about it, so let’s explain what it’s about in this article.

    A Refresher on Multitasking

    First, let’s refresh our minds about multitasking OSes.
    In a multitasking OS, we have many “tasks” that share the same resources. One of these resources is the CPU bandwidth, aka time; We call that time-sharing. The OS CPU scheduler is the piece of software that dictates the scheduling policy: it selects which task runs at what time, for how long, and how the CPU should be relinquished to allow switching to another task. It goes to say that this program is one of the most important in the OS, without it nothing happens. Furthermore, this has to be calibrated properly since switching between tasks can be quite expensive, it requires the whole execution context to be loaded again each time.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • New York Times ☛ FDA Approved Artificial Blood Vessel Despite Warnings

    The agency OK’d an artificial vessel to restore blood flow in patients, even though its own scientists flagged questionable study results and potentially fatal ruptures of the product.

  • New York Times ☛ West Virginia Bans 7 Artificial Food Dyes, Citing Health Concerns

    At least 20 other states are considering bills restricting the use of certain food dyes and additives.

  • University of Michigan ☛ Center for Global Health Equity names new director

    Akbar K. Waljee has been appointed the Leslie D. Yamada and Tachi Yamada M.D. Director of the Center for Global Health Equity at U-M, replacing inaugural center director Joseph C. Kolars.

  • New Yorker ☛ Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient

    From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using one-size-fits-all health metrics?

  • Anti-coup medical workers under attack while tackling Myanmar’s health care gap

    They risk arrest and worse at the hands of junta authorities.

  • Latvia ☛ Latvia among highest death rates in EU for circulatory diseases and cancer

    Eurostat data published March 21 shows Latvia among the European Union countries with the highest rates of deaths from circulatory diseases and cancer, but it does better on respiratory disease deaths.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Married Malaysian couple nabbed with over $360,000 worth of drugs disguised as health drinks

    A total of about 37,331ml of liquid methamphetamine was seized.

  • Science Alert ☛ Men And Women May Respond Differently to Latest Alzheimer's Drugs

    We need more research.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Simple Mistake Might Have Encouraged Sick People to Eat The Dead

    Mummy will help.

  • Science Alert ☛ 'Wild Swimming' Does Something Amazing to Your Mind, Study Reveals

    Here's why.

  • European Commission ☛ Opening Remarks by Commissioner Kadis at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Launch of the EU-wide Communication Campaign on Aquaculture

  • European Commission ☛ Opening Remarks by Commissioner Kadis at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Implementation of the provisions of Article 14 of the Fisheries Control regulation

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  • European Commission ☛ Opening Remarks by Commissioner Kadis at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Future support to the Aquaculture and Fisheries sector

    Thank you for raising the issue of financial support for EU fisheries.

• Proprietary

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Just Slop

    • Hackaday ☛ Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth Wants Bad Bots To Get Endlessly Lost [Ed: SLOP "Labyrinth"; this is Clownflare trying to hop on the hype and buzzwords wave]

      Cloudflare has gotten more active in its efforts to identify and block unauthorized bots and AI crawlers that don’t respect boundaries. Their solution? AI Labyrinth, which uses generative AI to efficiently create a diverse maze of data as a defensive measure.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • The Straits Times ☛ Sabah man loses nearly $9,000 in alleged hypnosis incident

      The case gained attention after the victim’s child shared the story on social control media.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Silicon Angle ☛ Once valued at $3.5B, 23andMe files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy [Ed: Shows how fake, phony, even fraudulent those "valuations" really are; some people who participate in this merely defraud everybody, so it's a form of white-collar crime]

      Four years after going public at a $3.5 billion valuation, 23andMe Holding Co. today filed for bankruptcy. The company, which sells saliva-based genetic testing kits for consumers, will continue operating during the Chapter 11 proceedings. It plans to take out a $35 million loan to finance day-to-day activities.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan President’s gambit: Time for a tougher stance on China

    Mr Lai Ching-te has been accused of being a separatist by China.

  • Taiwan accuses China of 60 incursions into restricted waters

    Taipei says China’s coastguard keeps moving into seas close to the Taiwan-held Kinmen islands

  • The Straits Times ☛ Japan protests Chinese government statement it says misquoted PM Ishiba

    China’s foreign ministry on March 21 had said Mr Ishiba had said Japan 'respects' the positions of the Chinese side.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Japan aims to make military more potent with new joint command

    The joint operations command would ensure coordination between Japan's air, land, sea and other forces.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese premier calls for ‘dialogue’ with Washington as US senator visits Beijing

    By Peter Catterall China’s number two leader on Sunday called for “dialogue” with Washington, during a meeting in Beijing attended by prominent US business executives and a key congressional ally of President The Insurrectionist.

  • Atlantic Council ☛ Is China or the US the ‘wolf warrior’ in Latin America now?

    The United States’ harsh rhetoric toward Latin American nations has given China an opportunity to falsely present itself as a more altruistic partner to the region.

  • Silicon Angle ☛ Security sloppiness at the White House: Yemen war plans shared with Atlantic editor over Signal

    The National Security Council today said it’s reviewing an incident in which The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to a Signal chat in which top White House officials discussed operational war plans against the Houthis in Yemen.

  • Atlantic Council ☛ How Beijing uses inducements as a tool of economic statecraft

    As strategic competition between the United States and China intensifies, Washington and Beijing seek every possible advantage to gain an edge. In this environment, both countries are increasingly turning to economic statecraft—the use of economic coercion or inducement to pursue strategic goals—to advance their interests.

  • The Strategist ☛ It’s time for the ADF to train in Asia-Pacific languages

    The proposed negotiation of an Australia–Papua New Guinea defence treaty will falter unless the Australian Defence Force embraces cultural intelligence and starts being more strategic with teaching languages—starting with Tok Pisin, the most widely spoken language [...]

  • Latvia ☛ Questions asked after massive heroin shipment made it from Latvia to Germany

    Latvian Television's 'De facto' investigative strand reported March 23 on how a huge shipment of heroin was able to be transported from Latvia to Germany even though advance intelligence suggested such a shipment was likely to happen.

  • New York Times ☛ Hegseth Disclosed Secret War Plans in Group Chat With Atlantic Journalist

    The conversation among the defense secretary and other national security officials on a commercial messaging app mistakenly included the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Australia to speed up $840 million in defence spending in budget, says defence minister

    Australia and other US security allies are under pressure from The Insurrectionist to increase defence spending.

  • France24 ☛ Greenland PM denounces US 'foreign interference' ahead of visit

    Greenland's prime minister, Mute Egede, accused Washington on Monday of interfering in its political affairs by sending a US delegation to the Danish territory, which is coveted by US President The Insurrectionist. Egede said US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz would visit Greenland this week, along with Usha Vance, the wife of US Vice President JD Vance. FRANCE 24's August Hakansson reports.

  • Defence Web ☛ Police Committee Chairperson raises alarm over illegal land grabs in Eastern Cape

    The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police, Ian Cameron, expressed grave concern over reports indicating that illegal land grabs have resurfaced in Fort Jackson, a region within the Buffalo City Municipality near East London in the Eastern Cape.

  • Defence Web ☛ Developing and keeping talent important for the SA defence industry

    In the wake of the Public Private Partnerships for Defence and Security 2025 conference earlier this month, an appeal has been made for “strategic approach to talent retention and development within the South African defence industry (SADI)”.

  • The Straits Times ☛ S. Korean PM Han reinstated, but split verdict hints at greater impasse for Yoon’s case

    The split verdict may mean a bigger divide among the same judges deliberating President Yoon's impeachment, say analysts.

  • JURIST ☛ South Korea Constitutional Court reinstates impeached Prime Minister Han as acting president

    The South Korean Constitutional Court ruled on Monday that the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was Illegitimate as his conduct, while partially unconstitutional, did not constitute a “betrayal of public trust”. The decision effectively reinstates Duck-soo as acting president.

• Environment

  • Pro Publica ☛ NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change

    The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

    The guidance, which was distributed to several staffers last week, comes on the back of multiple new directives to cut off NIH funding to grants that are focused on subjects that are viewed as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities, such as gender identity, LGBTQ+ issues, vaccine hesitancy, and diversity, equity and inclusion.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • The Straits Times ☛ Body of motorcyclist buried in Seoul sinkhole found

      Rescue operations resumed at 7am on March 25.

    • Hong Kong, China hit out at sale of CK Hutchison ports to BlackRock

      State-backed media says Lee Ka-shing's firm should 'think again,' and consider the Chinese national interest.

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese EV giant BYD surpasses US rival Tesla with record 2024 revenue

      By Peter Catterall Chinese carmaker BYD saw a surge in revenue last year, a stock filing showed Monday, surpassing the US$100 billion mark and beating rival Tesla as the electric vehicle giant accelerates its overseas expansion.

    • Science Alert ☛ Researchers Disprove Their Own Work by Producing Power From Earth's Rotation

      Is it really possible?

    • Pro Publica ☛ The Doublespeak of Energy Secretary Chris Wright

      For Chris Wright, there may be no simple truths. At his Senate confirmation hearing on Jan. 15, the man poised to take control of the U.S. Department of Energy and its vast apparatus of technological research and development sat behind a walnut desk wearing a gray suit and a crisply knotted red tie. Wright, the founder and CEO of Liberty Energy, a $3 billion natural gas fracking company, harkened back to his days as a solar energy researcher and offered lawmakers a vision of open-mindedness and innovation. Climate change is an urgent challenge, he reassured them, and he would address it.

      “It is a global issue. It is a real issue. It’s a challenging issue. And the solution to climate change is to evolve our energy system,” he told the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. “I am for improving all energy technologies that can better human lives and reduce emissions.”

    • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia eyes trade boost with China and Thailand via new inland port and rail links

      Upcoming Perlis Inland Port aims to draw trade from the north by enhancing regional rail connectivity.

    • France24 ☛ BYD’s 2024 sales surpass the $100bn mark, overtaking rival Tesla

      BYD has reported a record leap in sales, surpassing the $100bn mark for 2024 and beating rival Tesla. Meanwhile MElon’s EV company has been targeted with a series of attacks and vandalism, as well as weekly demonstrations outside its Tesla showrooms over MElon’s role in the Convicted Felon administration. Plus, Twitter’s iconic bird logo sold for $35 000 at an auction.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • New York Times ☛ Lessons from a Lost-Pet Detective Named Kat

      Recovering missing animals requires understanding both animal and human behavior.

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea authorities deploy choppers, troops to battle wildfire

      Officials warned that high winds and rising temperatures were hindering efforts to put out the blazes.

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korean wildfires spread, three more disaster zones named

      Deadly wildfires spread further across South Korea on Monday as authorities designated three more counties 'special disaster zones'.

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea struggles to contain deadly wildfires

      Dry, windy weather is hampering efforts to contain one of the country’s worst-ever fire outbreaks.

    • North Korea checks civil defense armories after weapons used for wild boar hunt

      The matter is being treated seriously as threat to the country’s leadership.

• Finance

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea to probe ‘made in Korea’ violations ahead of US tariffs

    Dihydroxyacetone Man administration said it would prepare reciprocal tariffs against major trading partners by April 2.

  • New York Times ☛ On Fighting Oligarchy Tour, Bernie Sanders Channels the Grateful Dead

    An aging star playing to massive crowds of supporters in head-to-toe merch? It’s not the Grateful Dead, it’s the Fighting Oligarchy tour.

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico’s inflation rate decelerates as central bank prepares for a rate cut

    Mexican consumers are getting a break on prices so far in March, according to the national statistics agency's mid-month report.

  • Xi Jinping’s family wealth persists despite anti-corruption drive: US report

    They may have benefited from connections to political power, said the US intelligence report.

  • New York Times ☛ Social Security, Buffeted by Turmoil, Awaits a New Leader [Ed: US Cheeto implementing eugenics already: kill the old and the poor. And the vets who fought for the country. VA no more?]

    The billionaire MElon has become fixated on finding fraud inside the agency, which provides retirement, survivor and disability payments to 73 million Americans each month.

  • New Yorker ☛ Don’t Believe Convicted Felon’s Promises About Protecting the Social Safety Net

    The Social Security Administration is shuttering offices, and the Republicans’ own math suggests that they are planning big cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.

  • JURIST ☛ HRW: Germany’s social security system violates women’s rights

    HRW reported Monday that Germany’s social security system inadequately protects women from poverty, breaching the state’s constitutional obligation to ensure that taxpayers can afford to pay for “necessary living expenses.” According to HRW, women in Germany are overrepresented among the population that is at risk of poverty.

  • The Strategist ☛ Economic security and geostrategic competition: tariffs don’t equal coercion

    The Forrest Dump administration’s decision to impose tariffs on Australian aluminium and steel has surprised the country. This has caused some to question the logic of the Australia-United States alliance and risks legitimising China’s economic coercion.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China rolls out new rules to step up countermeasures to foreign sanctions

    China has grappled with trade and investment curbs from major Western markets, including those from the US.

  • New York Times ☛ Layoffs and Unemployment Grow Among College Graduates / Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun?

    The unemployment rate for college graduates has risen faster than for other workers over the past few years. How worried should they be?

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • ACLU ☛ Anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ Marks Continued Fight for Voting Rights

    Sixty years ago, on March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights activists, also known as foot soldiers, marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to fight for the right to vote for Black people. As they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Alabama State Troopers brutally beat them. The violence these activists endured became synonymous with the struggle for Black enfranchisement.

    The Edmund Pettus Bridge march, alongside three other marches in Alabama, helped Congress recognize the urgency with which it must pass voting rights legislation. Mere weeks after the Edmund Pettus march, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was presented to Congress on March 17, 1965. President Johnson signed the bill into law on August 6, 1965.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Vietnam investigates Chinese tea brand over controversial ocean map

    Chagee is accused of displaying the ‘nine-dash line’ on its mobile app.

  • NYPost ☛ Columbia student, 21, arrested during anti-Israel protest faces deportation by Convicted Felon admin: lawsuit

    Chung’s legal team argued the actions by the Convicted Felon administration is an attempt to “chill” her free speech. The student has called the US home since she was 7 years old and is a legal permanent resident.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ HKU talk by CEO of Anti-Defamation League, which defended MElon ‘Nazi’ salute, listed as cancelled after backlash

    A talk by Anti-Defamation League (ADL) chief Jonathan Greenblatt set to take place at the University of Hong Kong on Tuesday has been listed as “cancelled” following a backlash.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Petition urges HKU to axe talk by Anti-Defamation League CEO who said ‘anti-Zionism is antisemitism’

    Petitioners have urged the University of Hong Kong (HKU) to withdraw an invitation for the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Jonathan Greenblatt to speak on campus this Tuesday.

  • BIA Net ☛ Turkish court orders blocking of bianet’s X account

    The order comes amid a wave of online censorship targeting hundreds of accounts covering the protests following the İstanbul mayor's arrest.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Press Gazette ☛ Former CNN correspondent says she ‘lost the support’ of broadcaster after disability

    Disability Journalism Forum hears how disabled people are being failed by media.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong security chief slams ‘smearing remarks’ in Guardian article about Jimmy Lai top court ruling

    Hong Kong’s security chief has lashed out at British newspaper The Guardian over an article citing experts criticising a top court ruling on media mogul Jimmy Lai’s appeal as “another cut on the city’s once revered legal system.”

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • New York Times ☛ China Releases Mintz Employees After 2-Year Detention

    The release of the five employees, detained during a crackdown on foreign due diligence, comes as Beijing is trying to bring back overseas investment.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China frees US firm Mintz staff in move to soothe foreign sentiment

    Chinese authorities detained five local staff in the March 2023 raid.

  • Pro Publica ☛ DOJ Launches Probe Into Illinois’ Treatment of People With Disabilities

  • RFERL ☛ Tate Brothers Check In At Police Station To Comply With Romanian Legal Measures

    Facing multiple charges of sex trafficking and exploitation in the United States and Romania, controversial internet personalities Andrew and Tristan Tate have appeared at a police station in Romania to fulfill their monthly judicial control obligations.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • The Strategist ☛ China’s shadow fleet threatens Indo-Pacific communications

    China is using increasingly sophisticated grey-zone tactics against subsea cables in the waters around Taiwan, using a shadow-fleet playbook that could be expanded across the Indo-Pacific.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Digital Music News ☛ Live Nation Settles Investor Class Action for $20M As DOJ Action Lumbers Onward

  Live Nation settles a lawsuit filed by investors claiming the company failed to warn them about its antitrust activity that led to the DOJ’s case. Live Nation has agreed to pay $20 million to settle the dispute, which alleged the company misled investors about its “compliance with antitrust laws.”

• The Significant Economic Mistakes of the FTC’s Case Against Amazon

  As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues its monopolization case against Amazon in anticipation of next year’s trial [...]

• Patents

  • Unified Patents ☛ $3,000 awarded for IngenioSpec eyeware patents prior art

    Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $3,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by IngenioSpec LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to smart eyewear. They have been asserted against Samsung, Bose Corporation, Sony, and LG.

    We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent.

  • Unified Patents ☛ $6,000 for Polaris Innovations memory patents prior art

    Unified Patents added three new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Polaris Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Owlpoint IP Opportunities JVF I LP. The patents generally relate to various semiconductor memory technologies.

  • JUVE ☛ Juul Labs ahead in battle with NJOY but fight continues at Court of Appeal

    NJOY wants the Unified Patent Court to remove nine patents protecting Juul Labs’ vaporizer technology from the market. For this reason, the company filed revocation actions in September 2023 at the Paris central division. In the meantime, the first instance court has ruled on all nine cases.

  • KOL455 | Haman Nature Hn 109: Philosophy, Rights, Libertarian and Legal Careers

    Adam interviews patent monopoly attorney, philosopher, legal theorist and libertarian anarchist Stephan Kinsella about his life, his works, and what's next for the great man!

• Trademarks

  • TTAB Blog ☛ CAFC Affirms TTAB's MONEY MART Decision, Confirming that Zone of Natural Expansion Doctrine Applies Only Defensively

    The CAFC upheld the Board's latest decision (on remand) in this long-running dispute over Dollar Financial Group's registrations for the mark MONEY MART, in standard character and design form, for loan financing and check cashing services. The appellate court ruled that the Board "correctly determined that DFG may not rely on the zone of natural expansion doctrine to establish priority and that confusion was likely with respect to DFG’s recited pawn brokerage and pawn shop services." [TTAB opinion here]. Therefore, the Board properly ordered that "pawn brokerage and pawn shops" be deleted from DFG's registrations.

• Copyrights

  • Digital Music News ☛ Lydia Harris’ $107 Million Death Row Records Lawsuit Is Moving Forward — Pretrial Conference Officially Scheduled

    Lydia Harris is officially proceeding with her more than $100 million lawsuit against Snoop Dogg, Suge Knight, Jimmy lovine, Lucian Grainge, and others. The presiding judge just recently put the case’s scheduling wheels in motion, after Lydia Harris (who was previously married to Death Row co-founder Michael Harris) submitted the pro se action last week.

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Sheet Music v. Sound Waves: When Old Copyright Law Meets Modern Music

    The copyright monopoly dispute over Ed Sheeran's song "Thinking Out Loud" has made its way to the Supreme Court's doorstep.  The petition raises questions about judicial deference to administrative interpretations and the scope of copyright monopoly protection for musical compositions under the 1909 Copyright Act.  In the case, the Second Circuit had sided with Sheeran -- affirming dismissal of the infringement claim based largely on a technical limitation of pre-1976 copyright monopoly law.  Structured Asset Sales, LLC v. Sheeran.

  • Michael Geist ☛ The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 229: My Digital Access Day Keynote – Assessing the Canadian Digital Policy Record

    With a federal election just called and the campaign now underway, the focus will turn - at least in very small part - to party policies. It is certainly possible that digital issues such as Hey Hi (AI) regulation, online harms, and the fate of Internet laws will merit a mention.