Robert Schwartz

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IP lawyer, leader BSQ Jazz Quartet, Public Domain advocate, Public Domain Song Anthology
My bandhttps://www.facebook.com/BSQjazz
Band pagehttp://www.groovem.com
Law gighttps://constantinecannon.com/attorney/robert-s-schwartz/
"Our study found evidence of higher excess mortality for Republican voters compared with Democratic voters in Florida and Ohio after, but not before, #COVID-19 vaccines were available to all adults in the US."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2807617
Excess Death Rates for Republican and Democratic Voters in Florida and Ohio During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This cross-sectional study examines the differences in excess death rates between Republican and Democratic voters in Florida and Ohio after the COVID-19 vaccine became available for all adults.

The NYT has uncovered a plot by Trump and his allies to turn the US into a dictatorship and all they can say about it is he’s “seeking to increase Presidential power.”

This is like claiming Bin Laden was seeking to clear the sight lines of neighboring buildings.

DeSantis and Florida republicans have wiped hundreds of thousands of vote by mail registrations from the system—mostly democrats

That means people will not be getting the ballots they requested for the upcoming election if they don’t find if it’s them and re-register

When there are no consequences for fascists?

They keep taking rights until they win.

https://nbc-2.com/news/politics/2023/07/12/hundreds-of-thousands-of-vote-by-mail-requests-erased-from-floridas-system/amp/

Hundreds of thousands of vote-by-mail requests erased from Florida's system

Most everything has an expiration date, but one thing you may not have expected to expire was your vote-by-mail ballot.

NBC2 News

Pamela Samuelson has a nice write-up of my paper with my Stanford CS colleagues on copyright issues in generative AI outputs in JOTWELL

Write-up here:

https://ip.jotwell.com/generative-ai-meets-copyright/?_gl=1*pesu0f*_ga*NjgzMzYwODI2LjE2ODkwOTExNDY.*_ga_BXXRV43J3Z*MTY4OTA5MTE0Ni4xLjEuMTY4OTA5MTE0Ni4wLjAuMA..

Underlying paper here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15715

Generative AI Meets Copyright - Intellectual Property

Peter Henderson, Xuechen Li, Dan Jurafsky, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Mark A. Lemley & Percy Liang, Foundation Models and Fair Use, available at SSRN (Mar. 27, 2023).Pamela SamuelsonChatGPT, Midjourney, and Copilot are among the numerous generative AI systems launched in the last year or so. They have attracted a huge number of users as well as several lawsuits. Among the lawsuits’ claims are that the makers of these systems are direct and indirect infringers of copyright because of their use of [...]

Intellectual Property
The main problem with Mastodon is that too much of the discussion is about Mastodon.
'As blatant as it comes': Trump's Oman real estate deal raises red flags he will 'sell out' U.S. interests https://www.rawstory.com/trump-deal-with-oman/
'As blatant as it comes': Trump's Oman real estate deal raises red flags he will 'sell out' U.S. interests

Former President Donald Trump has a complex new real estate deal in Oman — and it could compromise how he approaches U.S. interests if he becomes president once again, reported The New York Times on Tuesday."Mr. Trump’s name is plastered on signs at the entrance of the project and in the lobby of th...

Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism

When you can resolve your antitrust suit alleging that the defendant is a monopolist by agreeing to merge with that monopolist, something is seriously wrong. In this case the culprit is forty years of failing to take antitrust seriously.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/06/sports/pga-liv-golf-merger

PGA Tour and LIV Golf Agree to Merger

The partnership is a major victory for Saudi ambitions in sports, but the announcement split players. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan described his meeting with golfers late in the afternoon as “heated.”

The New York Times
The PGA Tour is now, essentially, a subsidiary of the Saudi government
can the DOJ enforce antitrust laws against this PGA/LIV monstrosity? I mean I realize that would require the DOJ to enforce antitrust laws in the first place but the question stands