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sean_hogle

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About sean_hogle

Sean Hogle is an attorney specializing in technology, intellectual property, and commercial law for clients in the software and wireless industries worldwide. Sean specializes in open source and is a frequent lecturer and writer on the topic. Prior to forming his own firm, Sean was Vice President and General Counsel of Aplix Corporation, based in Tokyo, a consumer and embedded software company and the world's leader in wireless Java platforms. Prior to joining Aplix, Sean worked for a large law firm in Denver, Colorado, where he got his start in the technology law field, before he eventually joined Sun Microsystems, at which he became Assistant General Counsel responsible for software and technology licensing and alliances for Japan and the Asia Pacific region. Sean's more than twenty years of experience in technology enables him to act as a "virtual general counsel" to his venture clients around the globe. Sean is based in the firm's San Anselmo, California office, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The firm's website is at http://www.epic.law.

Sean is also the founder of Redline (redline.net), an exclusive collaboration environment for a select cadre of lawyers worldwide.

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    Do you wait for the AI while it works if you are a lawyer?

    I think it's a good approach. It allows you to think and relax. You don't need to multi-task. Just be engaged with the AI like you would a person. It will improve the output.

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    Zoom's lawyers are trying to pull a fast one with these revised Terms. The new sentence on user consent being required to train AIs applies only to "Customer Content," not "Service…

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    In sec. 10.4, Zoom says "Notwithstanding the above, Zoom will not use audio, video or chat Customer Content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent." Custo…

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    There are at least four US District court decisions that stand for the proposition that software qualifies as a work for hire as either a "contribution to a collective work" or a "…

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    A few commenters dispute whether the IP non-assertion covenant applies to "Your Content", defined in the Amazon terms as "Content [that is, "software (including machine images), da…

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    Of course DRM-enabled goods can be digitally resold. It depends on the type of DRM being used. That would be one reason to have DRM. As I said, Apple is working on this now.

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    This is completely wrongheaded. We don't want legal characterizations of these transactions to be "licenses". If what we pay money for is a good that we purchased, we get to keep t…

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