Hacker News with Generative AI: Legal

After shutting down popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal (androidauthority.com)
After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal
Gaming, Nintendo, Legal, Emulation
10 points by pabs3 3 hours ago | 1 comments
CTO / cofounder exit deal after 1.5y at 600k revenue without SHA (ycombinator.com)
I co-founded a deeptech company in France 1.5 years ago with another founder. We both invested €30k initially. My co-founder, who has a business background and is CEO, owns 51% of the shares and has 2/3 of the voting rights, while I own 49% of the shares and hold 1/3 of the voting rights. I have a PhD in AI and serve as the CTO.
Startup, Founders, Equity, Business, Legal
46 points by biphasic 13 days ago | 69 comments
Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics (arstechnica.com)
On Thursday, music publishers got a small win in a copyright fight alleging that Anthropic's Claude chatbot regurgitates song lyrics without paying licensing fees to rights holders.
Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Music, Legal
4 points by pseudolus 15 days ago | 1 comments
Class Action Lawsuit Against Honey PayPal (courtlistener.com)
Legal, PayPal
6 points by michaelsalim 15 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025 (techcrunch.com)
Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. But 7 months later, this feature has yet to see the light of day.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Privacy, Technology, Legal
108 points by marban 17 days ago | 23 comments
Luigi Mangione Charged with Stalking and Murder, Use of a Silencer in a Crime (justice.gov)
A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging Luigi Nicholas Mangione, 26, of Towson, Maryland, in connection with the Dec. 4 murder of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan.
Crime, Legal, Murder, Stalking
4 points by gnabgib 29 days ago | 1 comments
MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style (news.mit.edu)
Legal documents are notoriously difficult to understand, even for lawyers. This raises the question: Why are these documents written in a style that makes them so impenetrable?
Legal, Linguistics, Research, MIT, Law
373 points by keepamovin 32 days ago | 423 comments
Court orders Automattic to restore WP Engine's access to WordPress.org (techcrunch.com)
A California district court judge on Tuesday ruled that Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg must restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org, a theme and plug-in repository owned by Mullenweg.
Legal, WordPress, Software, Web Development
66 points by LorenDB 38 days ago | 6 comments
Defusing AGPL-3 with Batch Processing (flameeyes.blog)
Preamble: this is an intentionally incendiary post, you could even define it as trolling. I have been thinking whether to publish this for a while, as it is on the border of being the type of unkind post I wouldn’t want to be associated with.
Open Source, Legal, Software Development, Programming
14 points by todsacerdoti 40 days ago | 9 comments
Ask HN: Next best to incorporate other than Delaware? (ycombinator.com)
I wish this was more of Ask YC / VC. I have been told it is either Nevada, Wyoming and Texas. Considering Stripe Atlas dont support anything other than Delaware. Does anyone have any Pros and Cons or recommendation.
Business, Startups, Legal, Incorporation, Finance
43 points by ksec 41 days ago | 56 comments
Oracle files notice of appearance for JavaScript trademark [pdf] (deno.com)
Legal, Trademarks, JavaScript, Oracle
107 points by cfnewsperson1 44 days ago | 84 comments
LegalEagle: I'm Begging You, Stop Hiring AI Lawyers [video] (youtube.com)
Legal, Artificial Intelligence, Law, YouTube, Video
14 points by Topfi 45 days ago | 5 comments
Stanford misinformation expert admits to ChatGPT 'hallucinations' in court (stanforddaily.com)
Communication Professor Jeff Hancock admitted to overlooking “hallucinated citations” in a court declaration he crafted with assistance from ChatGPT.
Artificial Intelligence, Legal, Stanford University, ChatGPT
6 points by Tomte 45 days ago | 0 comments
Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter (ContinueAndPersist.org)
Every day, thousands of Cease and Desist letters are issued, telling people to stop what they’re doing (Looking at you, David Chang). What a bummer!
Legal, Social Media, Humor, Creativity
1414 points by adnanaga 50 days ago | 224 comments
US Fifth Circuit Court rules Tornado Cash smart contracts cannot be sanctioned (twitter.com)
Legal, Cryptocurrency, Law, Sanctions
10 points by monero-xmr 52 days ago | 2 comments
USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark (infoworld.com)
Deno Land, maker of the Deno runtime for JavaScript, has petitioned the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel Oracle’s ownership of the JavaScript trademark.
Trademarks, JavaScript, Legal, Deno, Oracle
86 points by oldnetguy 53 days ago | 25 comments
Deno is filing a USPTO petition to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark (bsky.app)
Legal, Trademark, JavaScript, Deno, Oracle
9 points by sangeeth96 57 days ago | 0 comments
The DOJ-Google Fight Comes into Focus. Why It's Finally Hitting Alphabet's Stock (barrons.com)
Legal, Google, Business, Finance
3 points by TradingPlaces 57 days ago | 0 comments
LICENSE.TXT [video] (youtube.com)
Software, Video, Open Source, Legal, Licensing
16 points by susam 67 days ago | 4 comments
IANAL: agent edition (redmonk.com)
I was reading through an NDA for an upcoming event. It’s pretty common boilerplate stuff, but a single word stood out to me in a way it has not in the past.
Legal, Software Development, Non-Disclosure Agreements
6 points by mooreds 73 days ago | 0 comments
Ticketmaster’s attempt to game arbitration services fails (ericgoldman.org)
In an effort to curb mass arbitration, Ticketmaster sought to switch arbitration service providers to New Era ADR, including for past ticket purchases. New Era incorporated some defense-favorable provisions to its mass arbitration provision. The Ninth Circuit holds those provisions go too far and are procedurally and substantively unconscionable.
Legal, Arbitration, Business, Consumer Rights
308 points by hn_acker 74 days ago | 146 comments
Google’s TOS doesn’t eliminate a user’s Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf] (uscourts.gov)
Google, Fourth Amendment, Privacy, Law, Legal
403 points by coloneltcb 79 days ago | 293 comments
DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received at GitHub (github.com/github)
Inspired by Lumen (formerly Chilling Effects) and Google, this repo contains the text of DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices we've received here at GitHub.
Legal, DMCA, Open Source, GitHub, Transparency
105 points by LorenDB 81 days ago | 30 comments
I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of "just go independent" (citationneeded.news)
Independent publishing is one important facet of the media ecosystem, and while I love it, I know it is not the path for everyone.
Independent Publishing, Legal, Media, Business, Entrepreneurship
5 points by Tomte 83 days ago | 0 comments
Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020) (theguardian.com)
Companies House has forced a company to change its name after it belatedly realised it could pose a security risk.
Cybersecurity, Business, Legal, UK
572 points by jakey_bakey 84 days ago | 252 comments
"WordPress.org is not WordPress" [pdf] (courtlistener.com)
WordPress, Legal, Lawsuits
28 points by wp381640 87 days ago | 5 comments
X changes its terms of service to steer user lawsuits towards a Texas court (pcgamer.com)
Legal, Lawsuits, Texas
10 points by jarsin 88 days ago | 0 comments
Internal blog post reveals Automattic's plan (techcrunch.com)
According to an internal blog post a source shared with TechCrunch, Automattic was crafting a plan to get significantly stricter about trademark enforcement across WordPress and its e-commerce platform WooCommerce since at least the beginning of the year. Separate sources have confirmed the authenticity of the post.
WordPress, E-commerce, Copyright, Business, Legal
8 points by wpinsider 90 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: How do you license a deep learning model for commercial usage (ycombinator.com)
I’ve been studying and developing my own deep learning model that serve a very niche market. I have acquired some interest clients that would love to buy the model including the final model weights, training pipeline. I’m pretty new to this field so I’m not sure where to begin on the commercial licenses. Any suggestions from HN would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Licensing, Business, Legal
6 points by thangngoc89 100 days ago | 5 comments
FTX Clear to Repay Customers as Firms Seek Slice of $1B (bloomberg.com)
Cryptocurrency firm FTX won court approval to fully repay customers whose digital assets were locked on the platform when it imploded nearly two years ago, an unusual result that could net shareholders in Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud-tainted exchange a slice of $1 billion in seized assets.
Cryptocurrency, Finance, Legal, Bankruptcy
5 points by toomuchtodo 102 days ago | 1 comments