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US Supreme Court declines to review dismissal of copyright metadata removal lawsuit

JURIST

The US Supreme Court Tuesday declined to hear an appeal by a professional photographer who sued a hospitality tech company for removing copyright metadata from his photos in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).

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The FTC’s Misguided Comments on Copyright Office Generative AI Questions

Patently O

HathiTrust is a particularly significant case in this regard because the district court in that case directly addressed the issue of text data mining. [5] In other words, text data mining refers to any process using computers that creates metadata derived from something that was not initially conceived of as data.

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TechReport 2021: Practice Management

LawTechnologyToday

Research USA compiled data from 410 completed law office technology questionnaires to answer these questions. 52% of respondents stated that they have accessed an e-book in the last year to research subject matter relating to the law. How exactly have technology adoption and usage changed in the past year?

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Next-Gen Bar Exam That Truly Tests Daily Practice Skills Must Include Technology

LawTechnologyToday

“Professed technological incompetence is not an excuse for discovery misconduct” is not a court holding you want to see (James v. This is reinforced by ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.1 Jim Calloway, Metadata – What is It and What Are My Ethical Duties, 79 OKLA. CV 8931-VCL, 2014 WL 6845560 (Del.