The EU saw 57 more Russia-sanctions lawsuits in the past year.

An Ivorian propagandist, an alleged Russian spy, and a Dutch oil trader have joined Russian oligarchs in 57 new lawsuits against EU sanctions over the past 15 months.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250406-the-eu-saw-57-more-russia-sanctions-lawsuits-in-the-past-year?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

For legal reasons I am forced to say this is a joke.

For legal reasons I am forced to say this is a joke.

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#legal #WebScraping #EU #BestPractices

'At The Markup, some of our data journalists recently had questions about the legal risks involved in scraping websites hosted in the European Union. We conducted our own research to answer this question, and offer a summary of what we learned below. Our goal is to help other journalists, researchers, and advocates come up with a low-risk strategy for scraping in the EU.'

https://hackernoon.com/a-guide-on-how-to-legally-web-scrape-eu-data

The Markup: A Guide on How to Legally Web Scrape EU Data. “At The Markup, some of our data journalists recently had questions about the legal risks involved in scraping websites hosted in the European Union. We conducted our own research to answer this question, and offer a summary of what we learned below. Our goal is to help other journalists, researchers, and advocates come up with a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/06/the-markup-a-guide-on-how-to-legally-web-scrape-eu-data/

The United States of Terror: "Those of us who have lived in countries terrorized by a secret police force can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity. “I never realized until this moment how much fear I carried with me from my childhood in Communist Romania,” another friend, the literary scholar Marianne Hirsch, told me. “Arrests were arbitrary and every time the doorbell rang, I started to shiver.”"
#fascism #authoritarianism #USpolitics #PoliceState #ICE #DHS #legal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-ice-immigrants.html

Population control entails keeping people ignorant, uneducated, and without the networks to challenge state and corporate interests.

"The Supreme Court on Friday let the Trump administration temporarily suspend $65 million in teacher-training grants that the government contends would promote diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, an early victory for the administration in front of the justices."
#fascism #authoritarianism #trumpism #USpolitics #legal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/supreme-court-trump-teacher-grants.html

As Trump tariffs sink in, conservatives challenge whether they're legal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/05/trump-tariffs-sink-conservatives-challenge-whether-theyre-legal/

The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a legal nonprofit, has filed a complaint on behalf of a small stationery company in Florida.

In a shocking twist, a #judge decided that OpenAI's #legal wizardry isn't fooling anyone, rejecting their "straw man" defense with the enthusiasm of a cat batting away a toy mouse. Who would've thought that courtroom #drama could outshine AI's latest magic trick?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/judge-doesnt-buy-openai-argument-nyts-own-reporting-weakens-copyright-suit/ #OpenAI #Court #AI #News #Ruling #HackerNews #ngated

@berlin
@PolizeiBerlin

#Redefreiheit #Versammlungsfreiheit #FediLaw #Legal

Hunderte Menschen haben vor einem #Tesla-Ausstellungsraum in #Berlin gegen den #US-#Milliardär #ElonMusk protestiert

s/: Was ist da mit der #Berliner Polizei los? Haben die von #ElonMusk kostenlose #CyberTruck|s als Einsatzfahrzeuge zugesagt bekommen?!? /s

Ich hoffe, es kommt zu einer Untersuchung des Verhaltens der verantwortlichen Beamten, über Gewalt/Sachschäden gab es keine Meldung.

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114285544742722937

#legal #AI #deepfakes

'It took only seconds for the judges on a New York appeals court to realize that the man addressing them from a video screen — a person about to present an argument in a lawsuit — not only had no law degree, but didn’t exist at all.'

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-courts-nyc-5c97cba3f3757d9ab3c2e5840127f765

NEW: News Roundup, Statements, Resources: Lawsuit Filed Over Cuts to #IMLS, Federal Agencies https://www.infodocket.com/2025/04/04/news-roundup-resources-lawsuit-filed-over-cuts-to-imls-federal-agencies/ #libraries #lawsuits #legal

#legal #lawsuits #ElonMusk #SamAltman #OpenAI #AI

'Billionaire Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI will go to a jury trial in spring 2026, the federal judge presiding over the case decided on Friday.'

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-openai-jury-trial-begin-231611771.html

Law firms should demand Trump defend his unconstitutional attacks in court — bc they’ll win.

The Trump administration’s attacks on law firms are designed to not just dictate orthodoxy, but also to bend the legal system to President Trump’s will. These seemingly petty actions, from high officials, are setting us down a path where the legal institutions designed to protect everyone will no longer serve to check abuses of power. Everyone within the legal system —

Guy runs an experiment to see Just how easy is it to wrangle from GPT that which is very clearly someone else’s IP… Results are interesting, it’s not hard turns out. Some guardrails do exist for very recognizable characters, but that has not prevented LLMs from returning copyrighted IP on image prompts. Or from stealing studio-specific styles, characters and designs for memes - which has led to ‘Ghiblifying’ everything. #StudioGhibli #LLM #LLMs #Image #copyright #IP #AI #ChatGPT #ImagePrompts #AIImage #AIImages #legal

https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer