Newsletter Archives

• Looking back, looking forward

  Posted on January 20, 2025 at 02:44 CST by Max Stul Oppenheimer • Comment in the Forums

  LEGAL BRIEF

  

  By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.

  The big tech story of 2024 was, by far, artificial intelligence.

  Although it was often portrayed as sui generis (Latin for “we’ve never seen anything like it, and we need to start thinking from scratch …”), the emergence of artificial intelligence into public use and consciousness highlighted (and added urgency to) old issues, more than it created any new ones.

  The questions — who owns personal information, where does the right to privacy begin and end, what are the limits of copyright’s fair use doctrine, to what extent can free speech be controlled in the interest of other rights (such as privacy or the protection of minors) — are not new, nor even recent.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.03.0, 2025-01-20).

  Legal Brief Adult websites, Artificial Intelligence, Chevron Doctrine, Data Privacy Act, Loper, Net neutrality, Newsletters, Privacy, TikTok

• In Loper, the Supreme Court has made it harder to empower users

  Posted on July 15, 2024 at 02:44 CDT by Max Stul Oppenheimer • Comment in the Forums

  LEGAL BRIEF

  

  By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.

  Mainstream media attention has been focused on the more dramatic Supreme Court decisions of the past few weeks, but another recent decision is potentially of greater importance to the user community.

  From the legal-nerd perspective, that case involved the viability of the Chevron doctrine, a rule that had given federal administrative agencies great deference in deciding how much authority they had.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.29.0, 2024-07-15).

  Legal Brief Administrative Agencies, Chevron Doctrine, Congress, Federalist 37, Legislation, Loper, Newsletters