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The Founding Fathers created copyright “[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cl. 8. With this in mind, “[i]f you could design a regime of enforcing copyrights from scratch,…
Artificial intelligence (“AI”) is, simply put, “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.” Quintessential examples of artificially intelligent machines include Hal from 2001 Space Odyssey or the robots from Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot series of short stories. Many of the things we think of when we think of true artificial intelligence — such as…
Legal trends have followed cultural trends when restricting or enabling love and marriage. The controversy surrounding same-sex marriage is eerily close to the legal battle formerly surrounding interracial marriage. It used to be considered unnatural to marry across race - if God wanted different races to intermarry he wouldn't have put them on different continents.…
Happy Valentine’s day! Valentine’s day has become the holiday of love, where sweethearts everywhere out-do themselves to think of adorable ways to show to their partner that their love is alive and flourishing. Thought I’d share my favorite visualization on relationships, and how they come in every style and flavor. (stay tuned for…
Many have speculated that some day machines will become intelligent enough to self-manage and self-improve. Well, it's happening. Perhaps it's time we thought about what we train these machines to be.
Who can hold copyright in a style? What Rihanna, Steve Jobs, and David LaChapelle have to do with style and personality rights.
It's illegal to deface someone else's property without their permission. Interestingly, what’s become illegal lately is cleaning a wall. Not only are there laws on the books that make it illegal to clean graffiti off your own wall, sometimes it's even illegal to clean off the grime.
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