CFP: The Int'l Rev of Law, Computers & Tech call for Digital Learning/Legal Education, w Guest editors Dr Kryss Macleod & Prof Paul Maharg. Topics such as gen AI, data-driven platforms reshaping legal curricula/governance. Proposals due 30 Nov 2025. Full details: www.linkedin.com/posts/bileta...?

YouTube is secretly using AI to edit people's videos • Skin is being smoothed or sharpened • Features like ears are being altered • YouTube confirmed there's an 'experiment' on Shorts to 'unblur' and 'improve' clarity • There's currently no way to opt out (via BBC)

📢 NEW INITIATIVE: As tech giants claim ownership of subsea cables and satellite networks, who will protect our digital rights? @article19.bsky.social team digital launches "Wired and Orbited" to ensure internet infrastructure remains open and resilient for all. www.article19.org/resources/wi...

Fair.

Cat for balancing out previous dire (but accurate) posts

A genuinely sad and truly misguided state of affairs: ‘Management consultants and university futures: Academic capitalism and the capture of UK public higher education’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Kreitzer and Sweet-Cushman have a great summary of the research here. I am not joking in the least when I say it's easier to detect instructor gender than teaching or learning in evals. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Webinar on IP & Fashion with the WIPO Nigeria Office tomorrow...

Our annual Research Award funding call is now open. We are seeking individuals within member institutions for projects or seminars that reflect the goals of BILETA or fall within its subject purview. Deadline: 15 Sept. For more detail see www.bileta.org.uk/research-awa...

Existing in that limbo between ‘anything you put online will be there forever!’ and link rot

Not the Vogue article 😩 don’t try to make higher ed a (bad) luxury brand… I guess that explains SOME things. Warwick, just love yourself for who you are or no one else will. You were good enough 💜😳

Save the Date! Very pleased to confirm our 41st Annual Conference will be held 16-17 April 2026 in Wales. We will be very kindly hosted by the Technology Research Group, Aberystwyth University School of Law & Criminology. Further information/CFP to follow soon: www.bileta.org.uk/news/bileta-...

Postdoc research opportunity with the fantastic @nayeliurquiza.bsky.social on: 'Between Deception and Dissent: Regulating Unproven, Disproven and Misleading Health-Related Claims.' More info: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/118725-...

The sweariest professional repost I've ever made... and totally warranted... sonderuncertainly.substack.com/p/shits-gonn...?

Our spring school is still ongoing!📣We are currently hosting a panel discussion and the speakers will continue the conversation tomorrow. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch the ECS conference live 🔴https://youtube.com/@createuofg?si=PW_gOFGulUW2_1-G ▶️https://www.youtube.com/live/E0wh3hDJ4-U

The GIKII CFP IS HERE! Better than a large creme egg! Less miserable than a season of Black Mirror! And arguably more psychedelic than yr average weekend in Amsterdam!

It’s one thing to read the headlines; it’s another to read the government demand letter and response in full. Letter: www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

Mark Zuckerberg has just taken the stand at the long-awaited trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission. Follow along with us for live updates from @laurenfeiner.bsky.social and @alexeheath.com at the courthouse.

Do you really need that « character starter pack »? Go get a large glass of water instead (while you still can). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We've made the beginnings of a 'Starter Pack' to make it easy to find and connect with other Annual Conference presenters and attendees: go.bsky.app/U8av2BH If you're attending or presenting and not yet on the list, comment below to be added.

Sometimes I get myself all settled at my desk and go to check my email and it wants me to verify my identity using my phone and my phone is all the way across the room and I decide that's the universe telling me to start my day with something other than checking my email.

📅 Save the date! 8-9 May 'A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-Making?' will be an unmissable event! Check out the agenda👇 @cblpleeds.bsky.social @lsjleeds.bsky.social @grahamdutfield.bsky.social @subhajitbasu.bsky.social @iszpotakowski.bsky.social #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights #Equity

Q&A in which I discuss music copyright issues www.law.nyu.edu/news/ideas-m...

Our annual conference programme is now finalised! Looking forward to seeing everyone and hearing about this excellent work in London: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74165/...

Can’t even set up a printer nowadays without thinking about writing articles…

Presuming this will lead to attempts to standardise this as a contractual prereq for jobs, which models (and likely many other performers) will feel pressured into accepting, especially those with less bargaining power... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Culture is bad for you is doing a book tour! @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social or me in Bristol 24th March (in person), Manchester 27th March (in person), Edinburgh 1st April (online & in person) & Sheffield 9th April (in person). Details/tickets manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/

‘Of course, the problem is not that AI-generated content exists. It is that it increasingly looks like knowledge while bypassing the very mechanisms that give knowledge its legitimacy.’ jeppestricker.substack.com/p/the-synthe...

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. (Isabella, Act 2 Scene 2; Measure for Measure, Shakespeare)

We are delighted to announce that CREATe will be hosting the ninth annual conference of the European Copyright Society in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scholars will assemble in Glasgow under the theme: "Beyond private law? The regulatory aims of copyright law." 💡 Read more 👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

I can't believe they copied off each other.

The Sussex Centre for Law and Technology at Uni of Sussex is hosting a BILETA-funded hybrid seminar on the Online Safety Act, in June 2025. Details & CFP: www.sussex.ac.uk/schools/law-... Submissions due by 25 March 2025 direct to Dr @jessicashurson.bsky.social at [email protected]

Incredible looking, all expenses paid, summer artists' residency in the South of France (posted for sharing/info and jealousy!) www.summer-residency.co

Meanwhile, in plant variety news, there is a new dianthus called ‘Pinky McPink Face’ 🌸

Detail from the Art Nouveau gesso panels by Glasgow School artist Margaret Macdonald, c.1907 #WomensArt

Apple can ‘no longer offer’ ADP for cloud storage in the UK (following govt requests for ‘back door access’). Increased evidence previous assurances can’t be relied upon…. Rapidly incoming! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For those unfamiliar, the Associated Press is a non-profit cooperative formed by US news organizations that covers news for its 1,300 member papers, radio stations and TV stations. It is the foundation of the American press. It has always gotten the first seat and first question at official events.

Join us on March 4th for this hybrid event on AI where our panel will address copyright and image rights. @lselaw.bsky.social @lsebr.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

🔍 Dr John Tribe quoted in The Sunday Times! He provides expert insight into the potential mis-use of charity funds linked to the World Peace Tartan. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Read more: www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/... @drtribeinsolvency.bsky.social

📚 More Great Copyright Books Freely Available on Information Law Series Archive, by Bernt Hugenholtz on the Kluwer Copyright Blog copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/02/06/m... Cc: @ivir-uva.bsky.social

As the Great War to Purify the Government Internet gets underway, please remember how critically important the Internet Archive is, and support it. You want to see the USAID website that Elon erased? It is there: https://buff.ly/415Np4k Give to the Archive here: https://buff.ly/4hJ7vXw

Favorite sign so far

But not really wondering 😖

Democracy Docket's case database has more than 1000 voting and election cases, briefs, pleadings and opinions. All entirely free. www.democracydocket.com/cases/ In its news coverage of pro-democracy litigation, it links to the pleadings or opinions -- also 100% free.

NEW PAPER @talfeder.bsky.social @rebeccaflorisson.bsky.social @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I demonstrate the “parenthood penalty” for mothers in creative jobs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Open access in Work and Occupations

All moving so fast that days later is old news… www.wsj.com/tech/ai/oh-d...

Come join us for an evening talking about all things #music, #copyright and #AI!

…they take up drinking water - yes, drinking water, because of the water quality required to cool these facilities - which threatens to hike water prices for families… 8/ www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...