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WEBINAR – Terminations & Severance Packages: Know Your Rights

Nelligan Law

The key topics covered in this informative session are: Rights on Termination in Ontario Generally Understanding your rights as an employee in Ontario is crucial when facing termination. How to Improve Your Severance Package Negotiating a fair severance package is often possible. What is a Release and When Should I Sign It?

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Snopes Co-Founder and CEO Admits to Plagiarizing Dozens of Articles

Plagiarism Today

Mikkelson, for his part, has admitted to the plagiarism and has been suspended from his editorial duties at the site. According to former Snopes managing editor Brooke Binkowski, he created the new identity as a means to shield himself when he covered politically heated topics. Obviously, this scandal is a significant blow for Snopes.

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IP Reveries: Class 4.2 Ruminating on the “R – Rights” of IPR!

SpicyIP

But in this discussion, this right (in law) and right (in morality/truth/fairness) may get mingled in a way that their separate meanings get clouded. Image from here. ( In Class 4.1 i.e. pre-break session, we discussed what an IP ‘Right’ is and checked whether it is a meaningless term which presumes the presence of a singular right.

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ChatUSG: What Companies Doing Business with the Government Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Some of these issues are specific to doing business with the government and others are broader issues that all companies face when using AI, and generative AI (GAI) in particular. This rapid increase in the use of AI creates a number of legal issues, some of which are addressed below. If you have not done so yet, now is a good time to get started.

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Congressional Hearing on College Name, Image, and Likeness

LexBlog IP

Charlie Baker assumed duties as president of the NCAA. Despite the hearing’s focus shifting away from the specific topic of NIL, many of the witnesses and representatives advocated for a federal NIL standard to provide clarity and uniformity for college athletes. The chairman of the subcommittee, Rep.

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Major YouTube Copyright Lawsuit Nears Trial With Almost Everything On the Line

TorrentFreak

For musician Maria Schneider, whose class action lawsuit against YouTube will head to a jury trial next month, the status quo and its alleged facilitator have been a constant topic of discussion for well over a decade. What Do Whore Houses, Meth Labs, and YouTube Have in Common? .” I apologize. In a submission to the U.S.

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Right to Research (“R2R”): An Independent Right with an Imposed Dependence in Copyright Law?

SpicyIP

Per Hohfeld Taxonomy , if ‘right’ to research is regarded as a privilege, no duty will lie in the users and no-right will exist in copyright holders.). This post is limited to ‘research’, but it may be an interesting thought exercise to consider other fair dealing activities as a privilege. You can find his earlier posts for us here.