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Annemarie Bridy
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IP + tech lawyer. English PhD. Sometime career shifter and cross-country migrant. Gave up professing. Fan of careful people. Lover of well made things. Views my own. SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=630766
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And another.
Photo of the front elevation of Frank Gehry’s Experience Music project in Seattle, WA. Metal tiles are reflective silver, iridescent hot pink, and light blue
December 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Photo I took of the Experience Music Project near the Space Needle in Seattle. RIP Frank Gehry.
Photo of the front elevation of Frank Gehry’s Experience Music Project
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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But a service provider might be liable if it loses safe harbor, and the job of the Court in this case is to say when that is. Given Section 512(l), what more is required for secondary liability beyond falling outside the safe harbor? 2/2
Screencap of 17 USC 512(l): (l) Other Defenses Not Affected.— The failure of a service provider’s conduct to qualify for limitation of liability under this section shall not bear adversely upon the consideration of a defense by the service provider that the service provider’s conduct is not infringing under this title or any other defense.
December 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Like some of the Justices in today’s oral arguments in Cox v. Sony, Ars doesn’t have a handle on how secondary ©️ liability works. The DMCA creates defensive safe harbors, not affirmative legal obligations. Losing safe harbor =/= being liable. The DMCA says so on its face in Section 512(l). 1/2
Screencap of Ars Technica article on Cox v. Sony oral arguments with this sentence highlighted: “Some justices were skeptical of arguments that ISPs should have no legal obligation under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to terminate an account when a user’s IP address has been repeatedly flagged for downloading pirated music.”
December 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The Google et al. amicus pointed this out at length at pp 14-16. But knowledge is sadly water under the bridge in this petition, so it was frustrating to see it focused on in such a big way during the argument. The issue is what counts as material contribution.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
Screencap of section of the brief explaining the limits of the DMCA's notice process Screencap of section of the brief explaining the limits of the DMCA's notice process Screencap of section of the brief explaining the limits of the DMCA's notice process
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving, all! 🦃🍠🥧🌽
Little, blue-eyed Siamese cat standing on a hardwood floor and looking straight at the camera
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Weird twist is that she and her husband had already sold the land, under threat of eminent domain, for a 2005 semiconductor fab project that never came to fruition. She and her husband (who died in 2015) got something like a life estate on a 3+ acre tract as part of that earlier deal.
Screencap from article: During the dotcom boom, the couple faced seven years of additional county pressure to sell their land to allow for a semiconductor fab, court papers show. In 2005, they relented. The Kings sold their 47-acre property to the county in exchange for $330,750 and a license to live tax-free on 3.61 acres of the land until both of them were dead. The envisioned fab never materialized. King’s husband died in 2015.
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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It doesn’t. See attached image and the article it’s taken from. www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/g....
Screencap of article in The Register: A Google spokesperson told us, "These reports are misleading – we have not changed anyone’s settings, Gmail Smart Features have existed for many years, and we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model. Lastly, we are always transparent and clear if we make changes to our terms of service and policies."
November 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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ICYMI
Quote from Sen. Tim Kaine about voting to reopen the government: . “My gut tells me, based on the conversations I’ve had with Republicans, that many of them really want to fix this, and they know if they don’t, the midterm elections will make last week’s 2025 elections look like a good night for them.”
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Plenty of room for your black Escalade in the spacious garage.
Alley-loaded 2 car garage. Door is painted black and framed in gold paint with rampant gold lions flanking the words “The Prince” written in a font that looks like Old English
November 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Wouldn’t be complete without the gold toilet and wall-to-wall marble.
Half bath with stacked washer and dryer. Walls are black and white deeply veined marble. Vanity is gold with mirrored cabinet doors. Toilet is metallic gold.
November 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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The living room. This is like McMansion Hell meets the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Extraordinarily gilded and gaudy interior of a renovated historic townhouse.
November 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Orla, sledding in the mountains in her magic soda box.
October 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Orla, floating through the galaxy in her magic soda box.
October 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Your periodic reminder that works of the U.S. government are not copyrightable.
Text of Section 105 of the US Copyright Act (Title 17): (a) In General.— Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.
October 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Andor symbol
October 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Quite the visual reference.
Famous poster of Vladimir Lenin with the red Hammer and Sickle flag of the USSR in the background
October 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Just back from No Kings DC. Very inspiring speech from Sen. Bernie Sanders.
October 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Today in Amsterdam
Handmade sign hanging from the side of a building in Amsterdam with images of Anne Frank and Hind Rajab with their respective dates of birth and death: NEVER AGAIN MEANS NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE
October 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Exhibits from Calder Gardens, Philadelphia. Highly recommend. Building and site design is by Herzog & de Meuron.
September 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Nothing like a newly washed car blanket that hasn't yet made its way back to the car.
A sealpoint Siamese Kitty with blue eyes chillin on a folded patterned blanket on a white quartz kitchen island
September 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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My girl Orla sitting in the sun. #Caturday
Photo of a bright blue-eyed sealpoint Siamese cat sitting in full sun with her shadow and the shadow of the window frame showing on the hardwood floor to her right
September 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Oh, is that what it shows? Just another example of how successful our President is? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...
NY Times headline: Kimmel Suspension Shows Trump’s Success at Bringing Media to Heel
September 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Citations in the brief to two empirical pieces on distortions caused by the threat of exorbitant statutory damages in copyright.
September 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM