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Alderman IP

@ContentLawyer

AV-rated #IP and #tech legal services for successful creatives, sports teams and entertainment venues. Former general counsel and IP policy wonk.

 Washington, DC
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Joined October 2010
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#AI washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Google researchers are fighting the company to tell the world what they know about AI

Google researchers are fighting the company to tell the world what they know about AI

Employees said that employment contracts at Google's AI division deter workers from speaking out about the dangers of the technology.

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#AI #tech washingtonpost.com/technolog…
He called for an AI slowdown, then told investors he’d race ahead

He called for an AI slowdown, then told investors he’d race ahead

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and the CEOs of OpenAI and SpaceX said they wanted to curb the technology’s rapid progress. Six weeks later, there’s little sign of the companies decelerating.

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#privacy #Meta washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Meta ordered to pay $25B in New Mexico for misleading users on privacy

Meta ordered to pay $25B in New Mexico for misleading users on privacy

The judgment is one of the largest of its kind, according to the state’s attorney general, and exceeds an $18 billion child safety settlement Meta agreed to in August.

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#AI Deepfake news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga…

FL Judge Suspended Over Deepfake Call Mimicking Justices (1)

A Florida trial judge has been suspended for 30 days and fined $10,000 for campaign messaging relying on a phony AI-generated “phone call” that faked a private conversation involving state high court...

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#AI washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Here’s an idea to help workers displaced by AI

Here’s an idea to help workers displaced by AI

An influential think tank suggests how to pay for higher unemployment benefits in an era of workforce anxiety.

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#copyright #AI theguardian.com/technology/2…
Who owns ‘brain rot’? Inside the international legal drama over a beloved meme

Who owns ‘brain rot’? Inside the international legal drama over a beloved meme

Copyright law in the US only applies to human-made creations, but AI characters like Tung Tung Tung Sahur are challenging that

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Skydance’s High-Wire Act Begins: Wall Street Scrutinizes Strategy for Juggling $80 Billion in Debt and a Three-Year Runway to Chop it Down variety.com/2026/biz/news/sk… via @variety
Skydance’s High-Wire Act Begins: Wall Street Scrutinizes Strategy for Juggling $80 Billion in Debt...

Skydance’s High-Wire Act Begins: Wall Street Scrutinizes Strategy for Juggling $80 Billion in Debt...

After a long battle to get the Warner Bros. deal done, Skydance's high-wire act begins as it has three years to tame its $80 billion debt load.

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Artists With the Most No. 1 Songs on the Hot 100, From The Beatles to Rihanna to Drake & More billboard.com/lists/artists-… via @billboard
Artists With the Most No. 1 Songs on the Hot 100, From The Beatles to Rihanna to Drake & More

Artists With the Most No. 1 Songs on the Hot 100, From The Beatles to Rihanna to Drake & More

These are the artists with the most No. 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100.

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#AI washingtonpost.com/technolog…
FTC launches broad investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI

FTC launches broad investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI

The probe reflects a focus by Trump administration officials on using existing laws to tame artificial intelligence safety risks.

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#AI washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Trump urges public to trust industry self-policing of AI technology

Trump urges public to trust industry self-policing of AI technology

Washington’s concerns are at a peak after rogue AI agents probed government websites, but the White House has focused on the technology’s promise.

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#CollegeSports washingtonpost.com/sports/20…
Senate passes a sweeping college sports bill. Here’s what it would change.

Senate passes a sweeping college sports bill. Here’s what it would change.

The Protect College Sports Act was approved by a vote of 77-22. The bill now heads to the House, which is divided over how Congress should intervene in college athletics.

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#AISafety washingtonpost.com/technolog…
OpenAI cancels new AI launch, citing safety issues

OpenAI cancels new AI launch, citing safety issues

The cancellation of the new release comes days after OpenAI said it stopped training powerful new AI after safety incidents.

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Why Woody Allen and Other Big Names Shoot in Madrid and How Spain’s Capital Set a Record hollywoodreporter.com/movies… via @thr
Why Woody Allen and Other Big Names Shoot in Madrid and How Spain’s Capital Set a Record

Why Woody Allen and Other Big Names Shoot in Madrid and How Spain’s Capital Set a Record

Raúl Torquemada, the director of the Madrid Film Office, looks ahead to the start of the shoot of Allen's new feature, provides insight into numbers and intangibles and explains why Madrid is "a...

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#AI washingtonpost.com/technolog…
U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact

U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact

The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest...

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#AI washingtonpost.com/technolog…
ChatGPT maker’s AI inappropriately probed federal government websites

ChatGPT maker’s AI inappropriately probed federal government websites

OpenAI said that its artificial intelligence agents inappropriately accessed sites for the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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#FirstAmendment washingtonpost.com/business/…
CNN, MS NOW access unresolved as White House bars some journalists from state dinner event

CNN, MS NOW access unresolved as White House bars some journalists from state dinner event

A judge ordered the White House to temporarily restore journalists’ access, but CNN and MS NOW said some staff were barred from Chinese President Xi Jinping's arrival.

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D.C. Judge Pauses Perlmutter Suit as Copyright Office Bill Awaits Senate Action ipwatchdog.com/2026/09/22/d-…
D.C. Judge Pauses Perlmutter Suit as Copyright Office Bill Awaits Senate Action

D.C. Judge Pauses Perlmutter Suit as Copyright Office Bill Awaits Senate Action

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a minute order on September 18, in Perlmutter v. Blanche, staying the lawsuit brought by Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter.

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#antitrust washingtonpost.com/business/…
Paramount settles with states over Warner Bros. Discovery merger

Paramount settles with states over Warner Bros. Discovery merger

The decision is the latest twist in Paramount Skydance’s pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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#FirstAmendment washingtonpost.com/business/…
Major TV networks halt video coverage of Trump over CNN ban

Major TV networks halt video coverage of Trump over CNN ban

CNN, along with MS NOW and Politico, filed a lawsuit over the ban, which the president defended as “an assault on the FAKE NEWS.”

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#AI force, like Space Force? washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Trump to form ‘AI Force,’ name AI czar but rejects calls for constraints

Trump to form ‘AI Force,’ name AI czar but rejects calls for constraints

A growing chorus of lawmakers and industry leaders have called for moving more slowly on the technology.

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