And a few really great loving sweet fun dogs … kept it going in 2022. 🐶 #Cliff#Biscuit
2022 was a year of amazing art. And artists. @sabet@DrainedEye among them
2022 was a year of travels. Unbelievably privileged to be able to “Be. See. Do” like this.
New Orleans. Barcelona. Forrestburgh. Philadelphia. London. Spring Lake. Woodstock. San Francisco. Las Vegas. San Francisco again. Japan. Rhinebeck. Chicago. Mexico. Storrs. Syracuse.
We hosted a family Thanksgiving at our house in 2022. We fried another Turkey. Safely.
We. Ate. So. Much. Good. Food.
Sometimes we took pictures of it.
And 2022 was a year of getting to take in some great baseball games, @Yankees@TrentonThunder, alongside my son, @jwkasdan (and we did the NBA Draft, Knicks, Giants too!).
And of getting to see my two awesome kids, Jacob and and Lauren both do their thing in college. 😮
2022 was a year of new adventures.
I met @neilhimself & he sent me the most perfect answers to three questions I asked him (article to come!)
I saw @brandicarlile in concert at Woodstock (Bethel Woods) & she sang the perfect version of Woodstock
I started a new business. And a new practice area. And a new podcast. And I started advising several other businesses. I taught. I leaned. I joined teams. Good ones:
I leave the on court breakdowns to the experts over at @TalkinKnicks and @TheKnicksWall and @TheStrickland but as an IP lawyer (and basketball fan) this version of Knicks vs Raptors - a trade secret Complaint filed in SDNY today - is in my wheelhouse.
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The allegations here focus on a common fact pattern alleged in trade secret cases, an employee moving from the Plaintiff to the Defendant and taking with and sharing the Plaintiff’s (here, the Knicks) trade secrets with the new employer (here, the Raptors).
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This is the latest in a flurry of lawsuits that have been filed against generative AI app makers.
As I’ve said before - and Yoda has too - “Begun the AI wars have. Yes. Mmmm.”
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Here is an earlier thread 🧵 I did on the Andersen et al copyright class action against Stability AI MidJourney, and DeviantArt in which artists allege copyright claims b/c their works were used to train #AI generative art algorithms.
The SCOTUS today handed down its long-awaited decision in the Warhol Foundation vs Goldsmith copyright infringement case involving Warhol’s Prince series based on Goldsmiths photo re the boundaries of fair use and when a work is an infringement vs a transformative use.
TLDR:
The Supreme Court ruled for Goldsmith and against Warhol, holding that this was NOT fair use and not transformative.
Warhol’s argument that the silk- screen image of the photograph was transformative because it “has a different meaning or message” was rejected.
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Note:
Only one of the four fair use factors - the purpose and character of the use - was at issue on appeal and before the SCOTUS in this case.
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(a parody: set to the music of RockStar 🎶 by DaBaby; alt lyrics by me 🤷♂️)
Woo, woo
I grow up like
How you grow up, Mikey? How you grow up? (Oh)
How you grow up? I grow up (make bets to get rich in)
Let's go!
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🎶
Brand new crypto meany lucky so far…
Alt coin bankroll on the dip, ride to the top (yeah yeah yeah)
Have you ever met a real web3 drop-star?
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🎶
This ain't no Web2, bitch, this is the Blockchain
My degen frens made me promise its gon' free you (woo)
I better let you go the day they need you (woo)
Soon as you and me on that Web3, get to bustin' (woo)
And if that ain't enough, go play the game
Breaking down the "real-world legal contract specifying the terms of the streaming royalties and guaranteeing real-world ownership for the NFT holder" for #Rihanna's #NFT offering, which dropped last week ahead of her #SuperBowl Halftime performance tomorrow.
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The 300 royalty-linked NFTs were available for purchase last week at $210 a piece and quickly sold out. Each NFT provides holders with royalties from streaming revenues of her 2015 hit song, "B**** Better Have My Money," and some other goodies.