To my fellow copyright litigators, don’t sleep on the Hikma decision just because it’s a patent case. The crux of the opinion is what allegations are sufficient to survive a Twiqbal challenge when alleging inducement to infringe under Grokster and Cox.

Bari Weiss is going to do to CBS News what Great Hill Partners did to G/O Media and the fact that she found someone willing to be the fall guy in Nick Bilton only proves how oblivious he really is to his role in all of this. www.discourseblog.com/p/rest-in-pi...

your average paralegal is miles more competent on most necessary tasks to "do the law" than your average lawyer. if you are shitting on support staff as an attorney, you are filth and do not deserve your bar card.

On LinkedIn, a lawyer posted a Brazilian judgment sanctioning counsel for "prompt injection"! In white on white text, the brief instructed any AI reading the brief to respond "superficially." That's ... very very interesting. www.linkedin.com/posts/jinyos...

Exam administered by Cardi B.

Not just journalists, but lawyers as well. It’s so reliable that courts will judicially notice its content without hesitation. I’ve used WM captures to defeat motions over personal jurisdiction, establish the popularity of streaming media over time to calculate copyright damages, and so much more.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Per the logic demonstrated here, because Russell Stuart disagrees with my husband and I politically, he would be justified in calling our son the r-slur. My tax dollars pay his recently (6x increased) stipend wheeeeee 🤸‍♀️

It’s been 2 weeks since a Beverly Hills USD Board member replied “FAFO” to a video of Hope Walz demanding MAGA stop calling her brother the r-slur. He was called out publicly by my husband. He refused to acknowledge or apologize. This man controls my disabled son’s education. A nightmare.

Easiest $230 I’ve ever spent. Mike’s basically an uncredited coauthor on my 2012 law review piece covering ACTA and SOPA/PIPA. He helped shape my worldview *and* gave me one of my first platforms to write about copyright law. My admiration for him has only grown since then. Fight the good fight. ✊🏻

Oh wow. The order on Mariah Carey’s MSJ in the copyright infringement litigation over All I Want For Christmas Is You dropped earlier today, and it’s an absolute bloodbath. You don’t often see Rule 11 sanctions in these cases, but the plaintiffs’ attorneys seemingly screwed up… basically everything!

On top of everything else happening with Meta, this stuff is so so grim

Anyone know who’s in charge of keeping ads for nonconsensual pornography generators featuring full frontal nudity off Facebook and Instagram? Because they’re doing a pretty bad job, and the ads in question are appearing directly attached to posts by creators on the platforms without their approval.

Check out my wifey’s latest fundraiser below!

This is genuinely distressing.

I have a capacity joke, but I’m too intoxicated to intelligently tell it.

I’ve been inundated with DMs off this post from friends who either tacked right this election or know people who did, and the only common denominator between them is a strong anti-empiricist bent. They all conflated the Harris campaign with the most annoying college leftist on their Instagram feed.

If perfectly triangulating your platform based on issue polling translated to electoral success, we’d be preparing for a Harris presidency. Nearly all the GOP’s actual policy proposals poll like dogshit and yet here we are. To arrive at “have even less of a spine” as the takeaway is astonishing.

After sinking over two years and thousands of hours into the most grueling arbitration of my life, the final award is ready — but the administrator refuses to release it until the parties pay one last invoice, issued Friday after my client’s COB, meaning I won’t know the outcome until next week.

Friend I’ll help you — here’s a list of tips 🤣🥳

This is why I missed Law Twitter.

@kimlifschitz.bsky.social advises me that this may not be small claims court given that the Big Bad Wolf eventually brings in Monét X Change as their attorney, and parties aren’t permitted to have legal counsel argue small claims matters for them. I have much to consider.

Lawyer brain is when you ruin your rewatch of RPDR All Stars 7 by realizing Jinkx Monsoon’s prayer for relief in Fairytale Justice is twice the jurisdictional limit of a small claims matter in California, which is where Parade Magazine tells me the season was filmed. parade.com/1368360/mike...

I credit @mmasnick.bsky.social with a ton of my formative learning on legal policy (so much so that I was even inspired to contribute some pieces to Techdirt as a baby lawyer, which Mike very graciously ran). His role on this platform gives me a ton of hope for its future.

It’s going to take me a minute to get set up here, but for anyone who stumbles into my profile, hello! I’m a Beverly Hills-based entertainment litigation attorney whose primary love is copyright, but I also teach as an adjunct professor on the side and occasionally dabble in transactional work.

Alright, giving this professional microblogging thing another shot based on reports from my wife that the best remnants of Twitter are reconstituting themselves here. If it means being part of a collective digital loogie spat in Elon Musk’s face, you don’t have to ask me twice.