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Ian Ballon - internet/mobile/AI litigator & published author

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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

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West Coast IP & Social Justice CLE

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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07.03.2026 02:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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That IP Podcast: Ian Ballon on Litigation Strategy and Mentorship | Harry Brooker posted on the topic | LinkedIn In this episode of That IP Podcast, I sat down with Ian Ballon of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, who is the Co-Chair of Intellectual Property & Technology. What does it really take to become a go-to litigat...

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I was interviewed by Harry Brooker for That IP Podcast

27.11.2025 00:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ian C. Ballon and Raymond Matsumoto Share Insights on What Businesses Need to Know in the Age of A.I. Legal expert Ian C. Ballon and COO Raymond Matsumoto offer critical insights on how businesses can successfully navigate the AI landscape, focusing on governance, IP and privacy risks, ethical impleme...

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My interview with the LA Times about trends in AI law, which was published today

11.11.2025 07:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

23.08.2025 19:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Tsunami alert upgraded to 'advisory' for California coast after massive Russian earthquake The tsunami advisory was issued for the California coast after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia.

PSA
Stay safe

Tsunami alert upgraded to ‘advisory’ for California coast after massive Russian earthquake

www.latimes.com/california/s...

30.07.2025 02:45 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tuesday Eleven - Summer 2025 AI Festival

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28.07.2025 18:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My Digital Hollywood panel. Link in the comments

28.07.2025 18:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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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.

21.07.2025 21:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A love note in a bottle is found years later, an ocean away Anita and Brad’s message floated all the way from Canada’s Bell Island to Ireland’s west coast — leaving online detectives wondering: Were they still together?

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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

12.07.2025 14:40 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board meeting

12.06.2025 04:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Co-chairing Stanford’s 22nd annual Digital Economy Best Practices conference

09.06.2025 17:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Speaking on the future of AI at the annual meeting of the Copyright Society

06.06.2025 13:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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23.04.2025 16:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | My Fellow Republicans and President Trump, We Must Stand Up to Putin The administration must be crystal clear that we are aligned with democracy, free markets and the rule of law.

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.”

10.04.2025 05:42 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Analysis: Trump’s Tariffs Disrupt Global Trade Without a Clear Strategy (Gift Article) The global trading system is only one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan for how to replace it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Almost every detail in this article would have been unimaginable just a few months ago

09.04.2025 09:38 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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As Trump cracks down on immigration, U.S. citizens are among those snared Recent news reports of at least seven alleged cases have alarmed advocates and scholars who say they reveal the dangers of a system accelerating with few safeguards.

Free to read outside the paywall

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05.04.2025 14:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump’s Big New Propaganda Push Nothing says “restoring truth and sanity to American history” quite like lying about it.

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-big-...

A cogent explanation of what is going on. If you read only one Op-Ed today this should be it.

31.03.2025 21:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Mission South Africa’: How Trump Is Offering White Afrikaners Refugee Status (Gift Article) The United States has banned most refugees, including 20,000 people who were already ready to travel to the United States before President Trump took office. But Mr. Trump is making one exception.

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.

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31.03.2025 15:21 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We Are All Living in George Orwell’s World Now (Gift Article) He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today?

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/m...

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30.03.2025 04:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘He Thinks He and Putin Are Friends’: John Bolton on How Trump Gets Manipulated Trump’s former national security adviser lets loose on the leaked Signal group chat and Trump’s foreign policy.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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.

29.03.2025 23:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account Welcome to the 4chan administration.

“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..

28.03.2025 23:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | Putin is playing Trump and Witkoff like a Stradivarius Does Trump seriously believe Putin is negotiating in good faith to end the war in Ukraine?

Putin is playing Trump and Witkoff like a Stradivarius

Free to read outside the paywall

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28.03.2025 18:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Video From Tufts Captures the Fear and Aggression in Trump’s Crackdown (Gift Article) The tactics on display in the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk were not new — plainclothes officers, faces obscured — but as ICE actions ramp up, scrutiny may increase.

Disturbing. Free to read outside the paywall www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

28.03.2025 02:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Internet & Computer Law Year in Review

www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bcl...

Join me for a year in review presentation today or message me for an on demand link

25.03.2025 17:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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U.S. Agrees to Help Russia Boost Exports in Black Sea Truce The Trump administration agreed to help Russia increase exports of its grain and fertilizer to global markets, as part of a U.S.-brokered deal between Russia and Ukraine to eliminate the use of force ...

Rewarding aggression

www.wsj.com/world/europe...

25.03.2025 16:27 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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.

25.03.2025 15:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.”

25.03.2025 15:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Hollow Men It takes a special talent to betray an entire worldview without missing a beat.

“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…”

25.03.2025 15:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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‘Nazis Got Better Treatment’: DC Circuit Judge Slams DOJ Attorney on Alien Enemies Act Deportations “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.

“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.

25.03.2025 00:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

When the tv commentators and other amateurs take over the Pentagon

24.03.2025 17:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0