Copyright Office Releases Part 1 of Artificial Intelligence Report, Recommends Federal Digital Replica Law -Issue No. 1048 – July 31, 2024 – Today, the U.S. Copyright Office is releasing Part 1 of its Report on the legal and policy issues related to copyright and artificial intelligence (AI), addressing the topic of digital replicas. This Part… Continue Reading
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AI in Finance and Banking, July 31, 2024
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, July 31, 2024 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and… Continue Reading
War in Ukraine: Wide Partisan Differences on U.S. Responsibility and Support
With the conflict in Ukraine now in its third year, Republicans and Democrats continue to differ over U.S. policy toward the war-torn country. A 62% majority of Republicans say the United States does not have a responsibility to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia’s invasion. Americans overall are evenly divided on whether the U.S. has… Continue Reading
Congressional District Geography Workbook
CRS Insight: Congressional District Geography Workbook: An Interactive Tool for Congressional Users July 23, 2024. This Insight accompanies the Congressional District Geography Workbook, a Microsoft Excel file that congressional users can download from CRS.gov. The workbook provides information about U.S. House districts as configured in the 118th Congress (2023-2024)….The workbook, when downloaded and opened in… Continue Reading
What Makes a Pirate? Updating U.S. Piracy Law to Address an Age-Old Scourge
LawFare – While U.S. piracy law has largely stagnated since 1820, international law has evolved. Now it’s time to catch up. The “golden age” of piracy may have ended in the 17th century, but the scourge continues to the present day from the Red and Somali seas to the Gulf of Guinea, wreaking havoc on… Continue Reading
Political Violence and the 2024 Presidential Election
This webinar is part of the 2024 U.S. Election Webinar series sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. As the United States prepares to head to the polls in November, this series will convene scholars and practitioners to discuss down-ballot issues, election security, voter trends, and more. This event is online only,… Continue Reading
Warren Leads Senate Response to End of Chevron Doctrine
Truthout: “A group of senators led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) has introduced a bill to combat the Supreme Court’s seismic pro-corporate decision last month to overturn a precedent known as Chevron deference that has enabled federal agencies to issue regulations for decades. Ten senators joined Warren on Tuesday in introducing the bill that would… Continue Reading
New York Times, Washington Post compete with meme accounts for chance to be first with big headline
NiemanLab: “The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a million pieces,” says source. It’s not often that massive political news breaks on a Sunday afternoon — especially one in steamy late July, the leading edge of the Greater August vacation season. But break news Joe Biden most certainly did with this tweet… Continue Reading
Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists regardless of competence
Via LLRX – Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists regardless of competence – If elected to serve a second term, Donald Trump says he supports a spoils system, a plan that would give him the authority to fire as many as 50,000 civil servants and replace them… Continue Reading
Making sense of rumors about the Trump assassination attempt
2024 U.S. ELECTIONS RAPID RESEARCH BLOG This is part of an ongoing series of rapid research blog posts and rapid research analysis about the 2024 U.S. elections from the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. Key Takeaways After the assassination attempt on presidential candidate Donald Trump, people converged online to make sense of available… Continue Reading
The Donald Trump Interview Transcript
Bloomberg – Full text, fact-checked – unpaywalled – “Bloomberg Businessweek interviewed former US President Donald Trump at his golf club, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on June 25, two days before the first 2024 presidential debate and about two weeks before a failed assassination attempt. In a discussion focused on business and the global economy,… Continue Reading
Answers – What’s Project 2025?
Unpacking the Pro-Trump Plan to Overhaul US Government “…The Forces Behind Project 2025 – Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts launched Project 2025 in April 2022, a few months before Trump officially announced his reelection campaign. Since then, the number of groups backing the initiative has grown. As of now, Project 2025’s advisory board and so-called… Continue Reading
