Live Nation Is An Illegal Monopoly, Jury Decides; CA AG Calls Verdict “Historic & Resounding Victory For Artists, Fans”
#Legal #News #DepartmentOfJustice #LiveNation #RobBonta #SeanDiddyCombs #TaylorSwift

https://deadline.com/2026/04/live-nation-monopoly-trial-verdict-1236861889/

When lawyers use AI and get caught… This case involves my good friends and local southern Oregon legends the Wisnovsky brothers. They just won big, and the opposing lawyers in this frivolous lawsuit got seriously fined and sanctioned for submitting AI briefs with hallucinated citations. Uh-huh‼️ The suit, filed by a nasty, greedy and estranged sibling was dismissed with prejudice. Always a pleasure to see justice served and cheating lawyers caught and called out by the court. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #legal #lawyers #justice

Source: oregonlive https://share.google/C0owpmxxfxoI1qXNG

Apparently suicide is now legal in Virginia!

#legal #selfharm

BLOG POST: #Metallica vs. Napster: The Day Rock Ate Itself

https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-04-14-metallica-vs-napster-the-day-rock-ate-itself/

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“Napster versus Metallica” was more than a lawsuit. It felt like a moment where skinny thrashers in jean jackets became the homeowners association of Marin County, parodies of themselves. And in the midst of it, the technological generation — my tribe — laughed and snickered: the old men just didn’t get it. “Information wants to be free.” As someone who was still smarting at being abused by the record industry it felt like justice for us.

But there was a cost...

Great art is work and takes time. Artists deserve to buy homes, and food, and braces, and go on vacation. And that childish entitlement to “free shit online” led to the current internet ad model. It enabled the walled gardens of MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter; ultimately helped bring about the death of journalism; and built the communications organ that enabled grievance-filled echo chambers to elect Donald #Trump — twice.

#music #copyright #ai #legal

https://linuxiac.com/federal-bill-would-bring-os-level-age-verification-to-the-entire-us/

There is a new Federal bill being proposed, that would Force OS level Age verification For the entire US.

Filed as H.R. 8250 on April 13, 2026, the measure is titled “To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes.”

#AgeVerification #Legal #Linux #OpenSource

Reuters: Italy court allows class action against Meta over Facebook data scraping. “A Milan court on Tuesday accepted a class action brought ​by a consumer group against Meta ‌Platforms (META.O), opens new tab over the theft of personal data suffered by Facebook Italy. According to the court ​order, the data scraping incident, ​which took place between January 2018 and ⁠September 2019 […]

Courthouse News Service: Wisconsin governor signs bill legalizing online sports betting run by tribes . “The new law legalizes online event and sports betting in the state, so long as the server or device used to conduct the wager is constructed on tribal land and aligned with tribal gaming compacts. It does so by adding an exception to the legal definition of ‘bet’ to allow for digital bets […]

KQED: What Is the Point of California’s Privacy Laws if Big Tech Ignores Them?. “An independent review of Microsoft, Meta and Google web traffic in California in March found the tech companies may have violated state regulations around internet privacy. The audit, by webXray, also said that nearly 200 online advertising services ignored ‘legally defined, globally standard, opt-out signals’ […]

#legal #lawsuits #AI #xAI #NAACP #pollution #PublicHealth

'The NAACP [accused] the artificial intelligence company of violating the Clean Air Act with its use of natural gas-burning turbines to power data centers in and around Memphis, Tennessee.'

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/14/elon-musk-xai-memphis-data-centers.html