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Corporate Counsel

2 Extremes of AI's Copyright Fight: Permit IP Theft on Colossal Scale or Hinder Advancements in Human Expression

"We should be prepping ourselves for what directions we want society to move in. We probably want society to maximize creative expression, rather than let everyone assert property interests over every idea," Midjourney General Counsel Maxwell Sills said.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

AT&T GC's Comp Marches Higher as Company's Workforce Shrinks

Since David McAtee II became legal chief in 2015, the company's employment has declined from 281,450 to 149,900.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Mayer Brown Lands $10.3M Verdict for Korean Cellphone Manufacturer

The week-long trial concluded with jury findings that Chinese company OnePlus willfully infringed five of cellphone maker Pantech's patents related to wireless communication and user interface technologies used in OnePlus' smartphones.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Moves of Month: EBay, Estee Lauder, GE, Geico Grab Headlines

Among the GCs plotting retirements were John Deere's Mary Jones and Pitney Bowes' Daniel Goldstein.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

DXC Taps NetApp's Strategy Chief to Lead Legal

The IT giant has brought aboard Matt Fawcett, who has deep software industry experience and formerly was legal chief at both NetApp and JDS Uniphase.
2 minute read

International Edition

8 Firms Line Up on €8 Billion European Telecoms Merger

The purchase of Vodafone Italia by Swisscom is the latest in a series of recent M&A megadeals in European telecommunications.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Former Employees Sue The Messenger for Failure to Pay Severance, Breach of Contract

Two former employees of the now-defunct news website The Messenger filed an employment action against the site's parent company and its former owner this week alleging breaches of their employment contracts and violations of labor law after the company refused to issue their pair's severance payments.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Fox News: Smartmatic Financial History Doesn't Support $2.7B Defamation Claim

Kirkland & Ellis and Mintz & Gold are representing Fox News.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

A Dozen Suits: Patent Company Files Slew of Litigation in Texas

Ontario, Canada-based Patent Armory Inc. added another five defendants this week to its list of dozens of U.S. companies it sued under various patent infringement claims.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Divided Court Allows Texas to Police Porn Websites

"H.B. 1181 limits access to constitutionally protected speech, regardless of whether the viewer is a minor. Such action 'is to burn the house to roast the pig,'" U.S. Fifth Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham said.
7 minute read

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