Legal

The parent company of Donald Trump’s social media company, Truth Social, could soon become a multi-billion dollar public company, depending on a vote scheduled for Friday. Trump could stand to gain over $3 billion if the proposed merger goes through, which could be his ticket out of some hefty legal bills.The shareholders of Digital World Acquisition (DWAC), a special-purpose acquisition company formed to facilitate a private company going public, will vote on Friday on whether to approve the merger with Trump Media and…

Uncertainty suddenly surrounds one of Major League Baseball’s biggest stars, with Shohei Ohtani mired in recent days in a growing scandal linked to a federal investigation into illegal sports gambling.The public so far has only a fragmented picture of the case. But more facts could emerge in coming days and weeks, legal experts said, as federal prosecutors try to make sense of competing claims about Ohtani’s money being used to pay down gambling debts with a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. One key question —…

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s antitrust division filed a comment with the US Copyright Office asking for an expanded exemption to copyright law for the right to repair certain devices. The comment was submitted on Thursday, amid the Copyright Office’s deliberations over whether to issue new exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law that prohibits breaking software copy protection. Under Section 1201, repairing your own devices can often become a…

Apple Inc. faced a legal setback when…

Kelly Clarkson is taking legal action against her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock again, just a few months after she won her case against him in court for millions of dollars. According to the complaint filed Monday in Los Angeles, Kelly Clarkson is suing Brandon Blackstock and his former management company Starstruck Entertainment for allegedly operating as an “unlicensed talent agency” that booked business deals for her dating back to 2007, in violation of California labor laws, the Talent agencies Act.…

There are many dangerous things in the world and plenty of reasons why they are unsafe. Most of these things are either illegal or highly regulated, which protects us from a good deal of danger.However, that is not always the case, as not all danger is obvious. When one Reddit user asked people online about the most dangerous yet totally legal things that they own, netizens filled the thread with answers. Scroll down to find out what they shared!More info: Reddit 1939 Sheldon 56" metal lathe. It was built…

Image Source : REUTERS Nvidia Nvidia, whose chips are powering artificial intelligence, has been sued by three authors who stated that it used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo AI platform. Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O'Nan said their works were part of a dataset of about 196,640 books that helped train NeMo to simulate…

The US government would be in a stronger legal position if lawmakers ordered China's ByteDance to divest TikTok, rather than simply banning the short video app used by 170 million Americans, the Justice Department told Congress in a document seen by Reuters.Lawmakers and the Biden administration say TikTok poses enormous national security risks because the Chinese government could gain access to data from millions of American users.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM…

My advice to Mr. Sweeney: The First Amendment is a valuable ally, but its protections might not be available to you in this situation.The arguments, explainedSince December 2023, Swift’s attorneys have sent Sweeney multiple cease-and-desist letters demanding that he stop sharing the real-time and precise information about Swift’s plane’s location. The most recent letter that has been made public accuses Sweeney of “intentional, offensive, and outrageous conduct” that threatens her safety and well-being.Swift’s attorneys…

Australia’s private practice legal market is diving headlong into providing AI-assisted legal services. Leading brands such as Clayton Utz, Minter Ellison and Holding Redlich are signalling their first steps into the use of AI and their desire to scale up through 2024 and beyond. Law firms are trialling AI for tasks including legal research and legal document drafting, supported by customised AI models trained on legal data. AI could speed up the provision of legal services, improve legal services costs and…