Where the law meets the internet and things get weird.

A lawsuit filed yesterday in the District of New Jersey presents one of copyright law's most counterintuitive propositions: a person can be liable for copyright infringement for posting a photograph of themselves. Under U.S. copyright law, the photographer who takes a picture owns it, not the person in it. That feels especially strange when the plaintiff isn&

California's AB 2013 survived xAI's legal challenge. AI companies must now disclose their training data. What they reveal could expose a copyright liability the industry has been betting against for years.

Nineteen of the 137 Venezuelans whom the Trump administration deported to El Salvador's CECOT megaprison under the Alien Enemies Act — the same men the government called terrorists, gang members, and enemies of the state — are now asking to be flown back to the United States to challenge those desig

The Department of War designated Anthropic — an American AI company — a "supply chain risk to national security," a label previously reserved for foreign adversaries like Huawei and ZTE. The reason? Anthropic won't remove two contract provisions: no mass domestic surveillance, and no autonomous weap

Judge Cannon permanently bars the DOJ from releasing Volume II of the Smith report. The motions were "unopposed" because no one was permitted to oppose them.

Blake Lively's company is using a trademark opposition to block a Utah entrepreneur from registering BEAUTY BY BLAKE. It's a smart strategy. It's also a legally questionable one.

Can They Just Backfill With Other Statutes? Technically, yes. Practically? Good luck. The President still has tariff authority under Section 232 and Section 301 — but those statutes require actual investigations, actual findings, and actual legal justification. You can't use a Section 301 finding ab

The 1972 Coca-Cola v. Gemini Rising case shows how trademark parody can cause illegal consumer confusion.

Trump's DOJ drops appeal of court order blocking massive UCLA settlement that would have banned diversity programs and declared transgender people don't exist.

The TTAB ruled that PISSTERINE mouthwash would confuse consumers with LISTERINE, rejecting parody as a defense to trademark infringement.

New Atlantic profile reveals Pam Bondi's pattern of calling reporters while crying to pressure them not to publish critical stories during her campaign.

...a government attorney trying to punish a Senator for saying something as simple as "don't break the law" it apparently comes off to a grand jury less like a request to indict a ham sandwich and more like the rantings of an Arby's School of Law drop out.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. So this issue is going to largely talk about "the Notorious RBG" as she became known on the Internet. I'll start with her advice for life and then we'll talk about RBG and her adventures with the beer bros of Oklahoma State University. We'll end things by