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The Justice Department is asking a federal court to treat copying copyrighted written works for LLM training as fair use. Its position is sweeping—but it
The Creel sisters’ guilty pleas raise a question most coverage leaves unanswered: how could telephone customer-service workers clear unemployment claims they were not authorized to
John Bojorquez admitted trafficking at least 44 counterfeit airbags for vehicles he sold through JB Ohio Auto Sale. That does not mean 44 customer cars
Indiana’s old CCDF system was designed so parents, not daycare providers, authenticated children’s attendance. Federal prosecutors say Sharon Jackson nevertheless used parents’ cards and family-specific
Lindsay Clancy’s jury received a Tuey-Rodriquez “dynamite charge” after reporting a deadlock. The instruction is designed to encourage further deliberation without forcing anyone to surrender
Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh forfeited separate Anthropic holdings to the U.S. government. The Marshals Service later sold them—but the buyers, sale dates, prices and
A federal appeals court really did block one prosecution for private, in-home possession of obscene, purely virtual AI-generated sexual depictions of minors. But the ruling
The anti-Flock movement is real, but removing Flock does not always mean removing license-plate surveillance. Municipal contracts show several jurisdictions replacing Flock with Axon, a
Roblox is asking a federal court to send a wrongful-death lawsuit to arbitration based partly on agreements allegedly accepted by Audree Heine beginning when she
Berkeley’s viral 8th and Harrison encampment looks like a simple failure to enforce the law. The court record tells a different story: Berkeley can close
