While the concerns are real, the recourse is unclear. Even if AI-generated images have a widespread impact — such as by changing business models — it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re violating artists’ copyrights, according to Zahr Said, a law professor at the University of Washington. And it would be prohibitive to license every single image in a dataset before using it, she said.
Prior to joining the UW, Rhoads launched Seattle Ventures, serving leadership and investor roles at several affiliated startups. Early in her career she was director of business development for Seattle company Cellular Technical Services, which provided software for cell phone companies, and was a founding investor in wireless services startup Terabeam, which was acquired in 2004. Rhoads, who has a UW law degree, has served on boards of the Henry Art Gallery and the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. Inslee also announced the re-appointment trial attorney Blaine Tamaki to the Board of Regents.
Haggen has “haunted” all subsequent efforts to merge retailers, says attorney Douglas Ross, an antitrust expert at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ.
The mere threat of DOJ lawsuits can quash mergers, said Douglas Ross, a professor at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ. Companies face massive financial, time, and reputation costs by inviting merger challenges, even if they ultimately win, he said.
"On today's show, we're answering listener questions from the Planet Money inbox. Like, who really benefits from retail coupons? And why are goldfish so cheap?" Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen is asked about Delaware as a domestic tax haven.
Monte Mills, director of the Native American Law Center and a professor at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ in Seattle, said tribes have historically been left out of decision-making around managing public lands and natural resources.
Native tribes are pushing for their voices, and traditional knowledge, to be part of decisions over their ancestral homelands. Professor Monte Mills, Director fo the Native American Law Center, is quoted.
The Supreme Court this week opened the door to radically different ways of thinking about social media and the internet. The court is poised to hear as many as three cases this term about the legal protections that social media companies have used to become industry behemoths, and about the freewheeling latitude the companies now have over online speech, entertainment and information. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
In 1996, Congress protected platforms like Google and Facebook from suits over false or inflammatory content created by others, a law intended to promote online dialogue and self-regulation. The Supreme Court has steered clear of the immunity law until now, but on Monday the justices agreed to decide whether relatives of victims of mass killings can sue the media platforms for posting terrorist videos and allegedly sharing advertising revenues with the terrorists. Eric Schnapper, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“Lawyers in the Civil Rights Division are unlikely to file lawsuits they know are doomed to fail,” said Lisa Manheim an election law professor at the University of Washington. “Bringing a lawsuit that eventually gets dismissed generally is not a good use of DOJ resources. Given the sweeping arguments about Section 2 that Alabama is advancing in Milligan, it makes sense if DOJ is waiting to see how the Court resolves the case before filing complaints against other jurisdictions.”
“It’s the biggest mess of overlapping litigation you’ve ever seen,” said Todd Wildermuth, policy director at the University of Washington’s regulatory environmental law and policy clinic.
While Scott's petition is publicly accessible, the separation agreement is sealed. Terry Price, a family law professor at the University of Washington, told GeekWire that details of that contract "will never see the light of day." Scott and Jewett have not commented publicly on their divorce plans.
Price said he would be “shocked” if Scott and Jewett did not have a prenuptial agreement. And even if there wasn’t, it’s unlikely that Washington state courts would split Scott’s fortune with Jewett given the duration of their marriage, added Price, who previously spoke to GeekWire about the divorce between Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.
"When you're a billionaire, these things are not accidental. I feel really, really certain of that."
Hundreds of community groups are again weighing in on what they believe the City of Seattle needs to thrive. Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.
Jeff Feldman, a law professor at the University of Washington, told Law360 in an interview Monday that he hired Rikelman to work at his now-defunct firm, Feldman & Orlansky, in Alaska in the early 2000s, even though the firm wasn't hiring at the time.
The march of the AI robots. At a UW event, you could see a robodog show off and learn how we humans can develop strong emotional feelings for androids.
Members and witnesses examined how the fossil fuel industry uses SLAPPs to target environmental activists and non-profits to deter them from speaking out against proposed fossil fuel pipelines and other projects that contribute to climate change.
“We’ve come very far,” said Ryan Calo, one of the organizers of the conference, a University of Washington law professor who specializes in areas including privacy, artificial intelligence and robots.
University of Washington law professor Hugh Spitzer has a different take, although he agrees with Mercier on one thing. “Yes, it’s a very broad definition,” he said of the state’s take on “property.” Spitzer went on to note, “But there are still a number of cases in which the state Supreme Court held that taxes were NOT property taxes. Those include the case upholding the old motor vehicle excise tax, and another upholding the real estate excise tax.”
In an official announcement, UW Provost Mark Richards lauded Lawson for her deep and rich experience in “enrollment and student success, financial management, fundraising, and diversity and inclusion in the field of law, as well as impressive scholarship in criminal law.” Lawson started her new role as UW’s Toni Rembe Endowed Dean this month.
Now is the time to consider how we will educate people about persistent satellite imagery. These efforts will matter when building fact-based narratives in world politics. The fate of working democracies depends on it.
The Network has helped participants patent everything from a paint roller to a surgical instrument. But Fan says getting more inventors in the door is still the biggest barrier. “I’m always surprised that people don’t know that we’re a resource.” It certainly doesn’t take 38 minutes to find them.
“I don’t have any comment on the policy issues involved,” he said. “But, given the increasing spread of the latest strains of COVID-19, the fairly inconsequential requirements that Gov. Inslee has left in place are probably legally justified.”
“I wonder if it was a tactical mistake, moving for quick relief like that,” Ross said. “Forcing the PGA to alter its rules to let players play would be a big step for a judge to take. On the other hand, the opinion illustrates—like the rodeo case—the various ways an association can defend itself.”
