Come join us for the second annual Howard University IP & Social Justice Institute West Coast CLE in Los Angeles on March 26 from 5-8 PM
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I am an internet/ ai/ mobile litigator and Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group, a published author of legal treatises and books (www.IanBallon.net), an open water diver, and a Californian via Canada
Come join us for the second annual Howard University IP & Social Justice Institute West Coast CLE in Los Angeles on March 26 from 5-8 PM
iipsj.org/programs/wes...
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I was interviewed by Harry Brooker for That IP Podcast
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My interview with the LA Times about trends in AI law, which was published today
Honored to be recognized by Best Lawyers for intellectual property litigation, trade secret law, privacy and data security and as lawyer of the year for technology law
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Tsunami alert upgraded to ‘advisory’ for California coast after massive Russian earthquake
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My Digital Hollywood panel. Link in the comments
Join us at the Digital Hollywood Summer Summit on July 21–23! I will be moderating the panel “AI & the Law: A ‘Deep Dive’ – Fair Use, Copyright and the Doctrine of Innovation,” which will explore the legal and creative implications of artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry.
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Message in a bottle
A message sent after a romantic day in Newfoundland in 2012 was found this week, 13 years later, in Ireland
Free to read outside the paywall
Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board meeting
Co-chairing Stanford’s 22nd annual Digital Economy Best Practices conference
Speaking on the future of AI at the annual meeting of the Copyright Society
IAPP
GPS 25
Congressman Don Bacon (R-Nebraska)
“Supporting Ukraine in its struggle against Russian aggression is not only morally right. It is also in our national interest, because the future cost of abandoning Ukraine would vastly outweigh the investment we have made in rejecting Russia’s aggression.”
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Almost every detail in this article would have been unimaginable just a few months ago
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A cogent explanation of what is going on. If you read only one Op-Ed today this should be it.
I wonder what it is about white South Africans that Trump likes given that he is deporting Black and Latino immigrants who had legal status that Trump revoked? Whites, but not Blacks, from Musk’s homeland are being recruited to immigrate to the United States.
Free to read outside the paywall
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Trump’s former National Security Advisor is one of the few conservatives left in Washington willing to speak plainly about Trump II’s dangerous foreign policy. This interview is worth reading in its entirely.
“B/y the fact that this kind of shitposting is so obviously beneath the office, the posts are genuinely sinister. By adding a photo of an ICE arrest..the White House account manages to perfectly capture the sociopathic, fascistic tone of ironic detachment and glee of the internet’s darkest corners..
Putin is playing Trump and Witkoff like a Stradivarius
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Disturbing. Free to read outside the paywall www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
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Join me for a year in review presentation today or message me for an on demand link
One morning in February, Republicans..greeted Ukraine’s President Zelensky as a hero for continuing to resist Russian aggression. By afternoon, following Zelensky’s meeting in the Oval Office with Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance, [he] was an ungrateful, troublesome, and badly dressed warmonger.
In george orwell’s 1984, …The pivot comes with no explanation or even announcement. During a public harangue, a Party orator is handed a scrap of paper and redirects his vitriol “mid-sentence, not only without a pause, but without even breaking the syntax.”
“In george orwell’s 1984, …Oceania is suddenly no longer at war with Eurasia, but instead is at war with Eastasia, and always has been…
Republican politicians in Donald Trump’s Inner Party faced a similar verbal challenge when the president changed sides in Russia’s war against Ukraine…”
“If the government says we don't have to give process for that, then y'all could have picked me up on Saturday and thrown me on a plane thinking I'm a member of Tren de Aragua and given me no chance to protest it," said Judge Patricia Millett.
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When the tv commentators and other amateurs take over the Pentagon