Zahr K. Said

CNN's Van Jones Apologizes for 'Dead Gaza Baby' Rant CNN's Van Jones apologized for comments he made on Bill Maher's show Friday night which drew intense backlash from critics.

DESPICABLE: Van Jones Apologizes for Turning ‘Dead Gaza Baby’ Into a Punchline on Bill Maher’s Show. Actually Van did worse than "joke." He peddled the Netanayhu LIE that the images of dead Palestinian children were just part of disinfo campaign by Qatar. www.mediaite.com/media/news/i...

Wow. Blows my mind that I have been using this incorrectly my whole life. (The same was true when I learned what nauseous actually means but in that case I keep using the “wrong” term and chalking it up to modern usage). Thanks for the enlightenment!

Thanks! I’m not sure I know the difference between those two but I trust you are right; I will look it up and see if I can correct the original alt.

Headline of newspaper underneath photo of Trump at podium. Text says “Trump ‘Determined’ the US is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told”

Never thought I’d find myself nostalgic for the days of secret “Torture Memos” being used to justify war in pitching Congress. (Back when Congress had to agree.)

Also how many phone numbers does Al Franken have??
I’ve hit STOP and “reported junk” at least twice on that guy, but dems gotta dem I guess.

Seriously though, what’s the conversion rate on these out of the blue texts asking for money for people in random districts around the country??

Phones sold to Democrats need to come with a STOP button.
(Or …Dems could stop spamming us with urgent texts 8-10x a day from all over the country, also an option)

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

“It’s yet another way this regime practices eugenics. By refusing disabled people the accommodations they need, they’re targeting them for elimination.

People die in ICE custody every year, but we often don’t hear about them. Their stories go untold, their pleas unheard and the eugenics unopposed”

This Law School Is Offering Guaranteed Scholarships To All Incoming Students Thanks To New Student Loan Caps - Above the Law Which law school will be the next to hand out guaranteed scholarships like this?

Proud that Santa Clara Law has stepped up to help law students afford legal education as federal loan amounts undergo major changes next year.

Constitution Day event

For Constitution Day, Santa Clara Law had a great discussion about the "Rule of Law"

Watch the video (which I think I unintentionally evaded): santaclarauniversity.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...

With @zahrsaid.bsky.social @nickserafin.bsky.social

Disappointing. Do better, Perkins.

No.

SCOTUS time. :::drink:::
Good luck to us & democracy.
We’re gonna need it.

If/when there is another election, we'll see how this is applied to Democrats.

But, of course, this is dripping with hypocrisy from Republicans...as EVERYTHING with them always is.

#SupremeCourt

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

It is almost impossible for a policy to be this unpopular.

Bye

Again, depending on what fan works you’re talking about, you’re just plain wrong. Anybody who knows me will attest I rarely say things like that. But you don’t know what you’re talking about. Not going to engage further with you. This is labor for me, and uninformed flame-throwing for you.

You can start by reading the text of 17 USC 107. Then look for summaries of the case law on line, from, say Campbell v Acuff Rose, Kelly v Arriba soft through Authors Guild v Google and even (recent) Warhol. Then spend some time online reading. Come back and engage when you’re done.

No thanks. It’s my job to teach (c) law. If you were my student, I’d be happy to teach it to you. Or if you were not simply trolling for a fight, to point you to resources to educate yourself rather than polemicizing. We don’t know yet what courts will do. But the problem isn’t as you describe it.

What’s your evidence that fanworks wouldn’t meet the threshold? Even your categorization betrays your misunderstanding. Some fan works might. Others might one. That’s how fair use goes! Case by case, unless within a defined category with repeat factual patterns.

Wow. There are too many mistaken understandings here to try to rebut or correct them all. Ordinarily I don’t go after people online to school them on copyright law (which is easy to get wrong). But you came for someone who knows the law and you don’t.

These are not the criteria used to determine what transformative means. You are using a lay person’s (or perhaps an artist’s) definition of transformative, not a lawyer’s. Or, if you’re a lawyer, you need to read or reread the relevant cases. This is not what transformative (necessarily) mean(s).

Yes. You’re not teaching me something I don’t know. But your responses reflect unfamiliarity with copyright doctrine …to Siva’s earlier point, under your reading, 22 years of case law (at least) would need to be overturned.

I haven’t searched it up but at a quick glance this language looks like reasoning from a brief by an interested party. Of course it will sound one-sidedly in favor of its view.

I didn’t say it didn’t carry weight. But sometimes its position prevails in litigation; sometimes it doesn’t.
Common sense is not the correct standard by which to adjudicate copyright law. Perhaps some wd say it should be, but it’s not.

*say so

Well now that I do take umbrage at. There are many ways to be both academic and An Academic. You are both. Being well read, up on the field, extremely experienced, endlessly curious and (if I may do so) a wee bit pedantic (I say this as a fellow pedant) are your tells. Plus you teach.

What’s your hypothesis for why it hasn’t been “pretty easy” then?

Ok *I’ll* bite.
The US Copyright Office is not the final arbiter on (c) law. Interpretations of copyright law are up to the courts. Anybody who treats these AI cases as simple is, well, being simplistic. Or maybe just hopeful?

i’m so fucking fed up with this shit. when journalism outlets can’t even accurately and honestly say what’s happening to journalists—that they’re being attacked by cops and federal jackboots—then we are really and truly cooked. under scrutiny!!!!! i can’t. i can’t.

LAPD appears to have kettled protesters around 7:45pm to prevent them from leaving, waited for the 8pm curfew to kick in and then mass-arrested them for curfew violations.