Somebody needs to write a short pithy list/article titled “10 Things I’ll Miss Most About BuzzFeed”! ;)
@festinger
Academically inclined K.C., @ UBC’s Allard School of Law. Teaching Torts, Intellectual Property, & A.I. Law this 2025/26 academic year. Also affiliated with QMUL CCLS. Sometimes sports-radio pundit. Of Counsel, Chandler Fogden Lyman. Vancouver Canada.
Somebody needs to write a short pithy list/article titled “10 Things I’ll Miss Most About BuzzFeed”! ;)
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D561,197 - issued to Disney in 2008 for a design for a "design for a portion of a computer Screen with an icon image." #DesignPatents
The Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. That same year, a new method of constitutional interpretation was put forward. This would become known as originalism.
Jill Lepore on how the radical philosophy has undermined the Constitution: https://theatln.tc/ezc53Llb
*COMMENTARY UPDATE* One of our most consulted casebooks -- Samuel Beswick's award-winning "Tort Law: Cases and Commentaries" -- has just received a major revision! #tortlaw #legalcommentary zurl.co/czdMt
The latest issue (vol 22 no 1) of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology (CJLT) is now available on CanLII! With contributions from Amanda Turnbull, Gulnoza Abdurakhmonova, Christian Clavette, Bertina Lou, and Christopher D'Souza. #techlaw #legalcommentary zurl.co/ylAoa
The latest issue (vol 58 no 2) of the UBC Law Review is now available on CanLII! With contributions from Jon Festinger, Céline Castets-Renard, Robert Diab, Bradley Henderson, Katie Szilagyi, Peter Wills, Isabelle St-Hilaire, David Cohen + Matthew Peters. #ai #techlaw #legalcommentary zurl.co/DKCqY
I became a law professor in 2005, and have taught sports law every year. Looking back at my syllabus from 20 years ago, let's just say things have changed—from the NCAA, to sports betting to marijuana. Plus now it's a "real" area of law. My
@sportico.bsky.social column:
📣AI propaganda factories🏭 are now operational. My study shows how small, open-weight models can run as fully automatic generators in influence campaigns. mechanising personas, engagement, cadence. Possible for State, non-state, and micro-actors, including and bedroom ones.
An alpha tool for legal aid clinics that my wonderful colleague Nikos Harris & I have been working on with UBC CIC. More to come.
drive.google.com/file/d/1k_tc...
Vol. 58 No. 2 UBC Law Review: Special Issue on AI & The Legal Profession can be dowloaded here www.canlii.org/commentary/j... My introduction to the Special Issue here www.canlii.org/en/commentar...
At some point, Ms. Raine came in to check on her husband. “Adam was best friends with ChatGPT,” he told her. Ms. Raine started reading the conversations, too. She had a different reaction: “ChatGPT killed my son.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
I have posted the latest version of my census of US cases referencing "emojis" or "emoticons" (over 1,300 in total) 📈
digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
front view of what looks like a motorcycle helmet or the like
D312,513 - issued in 1990 for a design for a "crash helmet." #DesignPatents
The entry's text: Unopposed MOTION for Leave to File Amicus Brief by Amici Curiae 363 Law Professors. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Amici Brief, # 2 Text of Proposed Order)(Malone, Phillip) (Entered: 04/02/2025)
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New filing: "Perkins Coie v. DOJ (EO punishing firm)"
Doc #45: Unopposed MOTION for Leave to File Amicus Brief by Amici Curiae 363 Law Professors. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Amici Brief, # 2 Text of Proposed Order)(Malone,…
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I am one of hundreds of law professors who joined this amicus brief supporting Perkins Coie in its challenge to Trump's unconstitutional and retaliatory executive order targeting the law firm
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poor Nintendo, announcing the Switch 2 just in time to have it cost ten thousand dollars
New filing: "U.S. v. Live Nation (ticketmaster/live nation antitrust)"
Doc #503: Letter
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New filing: "Perkins Coie v. DOJ (EO punishing firm)"
Doc #42-2: Text of Proposed Order
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How an AI courtroom simulation is helping first-year law students combat public speaking fear via @ubyssey.ca ubyssey.ca/science/ai-c...
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D694,493 - issued in 2013 for a "baseball-style sports cap." #DesignPatents
Another excellent Andres Guadamuz piece on the current status of AI copyright authorship:
What's going on with AI copyright authorship? www.technollama.co.uk/whats-going-...