Lumi Olteanu

Munich Regional I Court preliminarily indicates OpenAI liable for copyright infringement of song lyrics. Decision on Nov. 11, 2025. Florian Mueller of AI Fray provides an excellent summary of the trial held by Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court) in the lawsuit filed by GEMA, the collecting society representing autho…

Some good news from Germany

chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/10/01/m...

Vacancy — PhD Candidate Law - Generative AI in the Media The overall goal of this project is to study the role and implications that the new regulatory framework has in realising public values and influencing the power dynamics and legal relationships in th...

🚨 PhD Vacancy – Generative AI in the Media 🚨

Exciting opportunity to join us on the @algosoc.org project, working w/ myself, @cgoanta.bsky.social & @natalihelberger.bsky.social

📅 Closing date: 31 October 2025
🔗 More info: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
 
Cc: @ivir-uva.bsky.social

Here lies human civilization. They were watching things on television that were different from what was happening.

Questionable reasoning in the digital age. Case remanded curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

Austrian oil company OMV objects to its brand being associated with vagina care products 🤪 The oil company claims dilution over the ‘OMV! By Vagisil’ word mark. The General Court found a link couldn’t be ruled out bc products might be sold at filling stations.

This article will feature on my course intro slides; ty

Same🥹

MISERABLE GHOSTS - bloody university rankings follow everything around like a bad smell

I agree with everything you say. This poses broader questions about the public domain coming under attack (even more than it already is) if this such registrations are allowed.
It is crazy how some regard public domain items as res nullius or res derelictae rather than inalienable public property

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.

Now this is what I call a textbook example of trade mark tarnishment where the US parody defence would not work :))

Cox on Normative Uncertainty and Legal AI, buff.ly/S3sT27b - Courtney M. Cox (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Non-Herculean Data: A Philosophical Intervention in a Technical Debate about Judicial Opinions as Data Sources (Proc. 20th Intern. Conf. on AI & Law (forthcoming 2025)) on SSRN.

AI in law: breaking down the latest developments On 6 June 2025, the Divisional Court gave judgment in R (Ayinde) v. London Borough of Haringay [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin). This was the first case that Court has considered concerning the misuse of arti...

It’s becoming endemic…

Here’s a break down up to July 2025 which will need to be updated regularly:

www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/ai-...

Oxford University Press is introducing an AI summarisation & quizzing asst. into their law textbook ‘trove’: it took considerable effort from our Fac+Library to have them engineer in a license-level off switch (they initially refused!). They did not clock how important the skill of summarisation is.

Sorry to hear this Ali! Looking forward to reading your findings when the bureaucracy Gods will allow it…

i wish brands would include more technical information in their product descriptions. i don't need to know this was inspired by timeless italian men summering in nantucket who could dress up or down. i want to know the fabric weight, leather tanning method, seam construction, etc.

Cost of Vogue Singapore Advertorial - a Freedom of Information request to University of Warwick I would like to request 1) all email correspondence relating to, and 2) the price to the University of Warwick of, the placement of the following article in Vogue Singapore: Ajay Teli on how cultural...

Incredible scenes as the University of Warwick refuses to answer an FOI on the cost of an advertorial photo feature on their chief marketing officer in Vogue Singapore because it is a 'trade secret' www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cost...

Warwick hired “celebrity chef Aldo Zilli to create a “sardine and prawn” dish to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Venice”, plus more Ajay Teli trips, talks - as if future students care about a CMO! This isn’t appealing to students—it’s maladministration www.timeshighereducation.com/news/warwick...

I made me smile Hyo! Big hug😘🤗

LLMs can be used in ways that support thinking (article gives interesting directions on that potential, if one is disciplined) but the article contains no evidence of supporting its headline that students *are* doing this rather than cognitive offloading of the act of thinking & understanding.

Academics need to lean forward into policy advocacy now, to the degree it can help preserve independent and evidence supported thinking and discourse.

The fact that it feels very uncomfortable to do this work is precisely why we need more people doing it.

Bartz

🚨BREAKING: Federal judge concludes that using copyrighted works to train generative A.I. is transformative and ultimately a fair use. (Nevertheless, Anthropic can’t beat the lawsuit because it pirated books for another purpose too.) First of kind ruling. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

We have the first referral to the CJEU on AI and copyright regarding a chatbot reproducing text in an output, whether such potential reproduction is a communication to the public, and if so, whether Article 4 of the DSM Directive is applicable. curia.europa.eu/juris/showPd...

Academic literature on whether gamification helps in higher education is negative to inconclusive after decades of work, and those ones had active thought going into them.

Romanian liberal mayor Nicusor Dan wins tense race for presidency - BBC News Nicusor Dan fights off a strong challenge from a right-wing nationalist after months of political turbulence.

Finally some fantastic news from my beloved 🇷🇴
The young generation back home is admirable, they turned our hopes in reality💪🏻

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Why AI ‘Companions’ Are Not Kids’ Friends | TechPolicy.Press AI companions pose unacceptable, well-documented risks to developing minds and should not be used by anyone under 18, Jim Steyer writes.

AI companions pose unacceptable, well-documented risks to developing minds and should not be used by anyone under 18, Common Sense founder Jim Steyer writes. www.techpolicy.press/why-ai-compa...

Georgescu barred from Romanian vote in final court ruling Calin Georgescu loses a bid to overturn a ruling barring him from participating in next May's vote.

Romania too:

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sorry to hear Hyo🥹 glad it’s over… But I always think: at what cost?

The Take It Down Act isn’t a law, it’s a weapon It’s not a law, it’s a weapon.

"Congress can no longer meaningfully claim that what it passes are laws. What it makes now are weapons — rules Trump and other parties use only against people they don’t like."