Fred Dingledy
@ding0036.bsky.social
Law Librarian. Mediocre chess and cello player. Enjoys tech (not always requited), anime, and manga. #HalaMadrid
A lawsuit from composer Johann Christian Bach was the beginning of copyright protection for musical works www.wipo.int/web/wipo-mag...
The 18th-century legal case that changed the face of music copyright law
When Johann Christian Bach sued unauthorized publishers in 18th-century London, he won legal recognition for musical works as intellectual property. According to Eyal Brook, his victory still echoes i...
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September 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A lawsuit from composer Johann Christian Bach was the beginning of copyright protection for musical works www.wipo.int/web/wipo-mag...
Next step in AI use and the law: Calif. Court of Appeals denies attorney fees to counsel for failing to alert the court to AI-hallucinated cites in opponent's brief www.lawnext.com/2025/09/a-ne...
A New Wrinkle in AI Hallucination Cases: Lawyers Dinged for Failing to Detect Opponent’s Fake Citations
A new decision from the California Court of Appeals adds an intriguing dimension to the growing body of AI hallucination sanctions cases, raising the question of a lawyer's duty to detect fabricated,....
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September 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Next step in AI use and the law: Calif. Court of Appeals denies attorney fees to counsel for failing to alert the court to AI-hallucinated cites in opponent's brief www.lawnext.com/2025/09/a-ne...
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Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website
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Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website
Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.
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August 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website
🔗 www.404media.co/constitution...
🔗 www.404media.co/constitution...
As of August 25, 2025, most shortcut links created with Google's goo.gl service will stop working wapo.st/477BI0c
Analysis | Google is killing millions of web links to save a few bucks
The company junked its 15-year-old web address format, which will break a deluge of links in academic research, court documents and websites.
wapo.st
August 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
As of August 25, 2025, most shortcut links created with Google's goo.gl service will stop working wapo.st/477BI0c
From the same article in my previous post, the Center notes that while The Maltese Falcon entered the public domain this year, the Ninth Circuit held in 1954 that Sam Spade was never copyrightable b/c he was "only the chessman in the game of telling the story". web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
January 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
From the same article in my previous post, the Center notes that while The Maltese Falcon entered the public domain this year, the Ninth Circuit held in 1954 that Sam Spade was never copyrightable b/c he was "only the chessman in the game of telling the story". web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain issued its annual list of highlights from new works that entered the US public domain on Jan. 1, 2025, including Popeye's and Tintin's first appearances web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
January 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain issued its annual list of highlights from new works that entered the US public domain on Jan. 1, 2025, including Popeye's and Tintin's first appearances web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
New article discusses how some scholars got a Crossref boost from phantom references that were snuck into the metadata of articles when those articles were submitted to databases theconversation.com/when-scienti...
When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering ‘sneaked references’
Scholars have long measured the impact of a paper by counting the number of times other scientific articles cite it. Researchers have just detected a new kind of citation fraud.
theconversation.com
July 15, 2024 at 7:04 PM
New article discusses how some scholars got a Crossref boost from phantom references that were snuck into the metadata of articles when those articles were submitted to databases theconversation.com/when-scienti...
Interesting look at the time when colonial-era Williamsburg (Va.) had three newspapers called the Virginia Gazette (one reason possibly being that the government required proclamations and resolutions to be published in "the Virginia Gazette") cardinalnews.org/2024/05/14/w...
Why three Colonial-era newspapers in Williamsburg called themselves The Virginia Gazette — and even published at the same time
Untangling the history of Virginia’s first newspaper and the homonymous publications that followed, each with a claim to fame in the annals of journalism.
cardinalnews.org
June 7, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Interesting look at the time when colonial-era Williamsburg (Va.) had three newspapers called the Virginia Gazette (one reason possibly being that the government required proclamations and resolutions to be published in "the Virginia Gazette") cardinalnews.org/2024/05/14/w...
11th Cir. judge ponders whether judges might consider using AI LLMs like ChatGPT to help determine "ordinary meaning" of terms languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64297
Language Log » LLMs for judicial interpretation of "ordinary meaning"
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May 31, 2024 at 4:41 PM
11th Cir. judge ponders whether judges might consider using AI LLMs like ChatGPT to help determine "ordinary meaning" of terms languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64297
Allen County (Ind.) Superior Court judge holds that tacos and burritos are sandwiches - WaPost article (free link) at wapo.st/4bIhDgb . Case is Martin Quintana v. Ft. Wayne Plan Cmm'n, Case # 02D02-2212-PL-000414, available via Indiana's MyCase public.courts.in.gov/mycase/#/vw/...
Are tacos and burritos sandwiches? A judge in Indiana ruled yes.
The judge ruled that tacos and burritos are “Mexican-style sandwiches” after a city denied a taco restaurant a permit to open a location at a shopping center that restricts fast food.
wapo.st
May 16, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Allen County (Ind.) Superior Court judge holds that tacos and burritos are sandwiches - WaPost article (free link) at wapo.st/4bIhDgb . Case is Martin Quintana v. Ft. Wayne Plan Cmm'n, Case # 02D02-2212-PL-000414, available via Indiana's MyCase public.courts.in.gov/mycase/#/vw/...
The Oyez project has created a website that re-creates excerpts from the Brown v. Board of Ed SCOTUS oral arguments using a mix of actors and AI brown.oyez.org - details on how they did it at brown.oyez.org/about/
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Dive into the heart of the courtroom, where technology meets the pivotal moments that shaped civil rights.
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May 16, 2024 at 2:10 PM
The Oyez project has created a website that re-creates excerpts from the Brown v. Board of Ed SCOTUS oral arguments using a mix of actors and AI brown.oyez.org - details on how they did it at brown.oyez.org/about/
Today in unforeseen side effects: Pokémon Go players are adding fake beaches to map program to make rare catches (free Washington Post link) wapo.st/3UYGTYT
Pokémon Go players are adding fake beaches to map program to make rare catches
Pokémon Go players are creating fake beaches in an open source mapping program so they can catch a rare pokémon — but changing a program used by millions around the world.
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May 13, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Today in unforeseen side effects: Pokémon Go players are adding fake beaches to map program to make rare catches (free Washington Post link) wapo.st/3UYGTYT
Parts of the Doves Type typeface have been rescued from the Thames news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Rescued From the River Thames
The Doves typeface was thrown into the water a century ago, following a dispute between its creators. Pieces of it are now on show in London.
news.artnet.com
May 10, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Parts of the Doves Type typeface have been rescued from the Thames news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
Academic philosophers looking at Reddit's AITA subreddit to analyze how non-philosophers look at moral issues www.vox.com/future-perfe...
May 9, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Academic philosophers looking at Reddit's AITA subreddit to analyze how non-philosophers look at moral issues www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The story of the monk who crowdsourced the most accurate world map of the mid-15th century www.openculture.com/2024/04/when...
When a Medieval Monk Crowdsourced the Most Accurate Map of the World, Creating “the Google Earth of the 1450s”
If we want to know the precise geographical location of, say, a particular church in Madrid, video arcade in Tokyo or coffee shop in Addis Ababa, we can figure it out in a matter of seconds. Open Cult...
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May 6, 2024 at 4:56 PM
The story of the monk who crowdsourced the most accurate world map of the mid-15th century www.openculture.com/2024/04/when...
Neat tool - Quick archive.org Viewer cybdetective.com/webarchivevi... . Enter a URL, and the viewer will give you thumbnails of archive.org captures from multiple points in time.
Quick archive.org viewer
cybdetective.com
April 19, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Neat tool - Quick archive.org Viewer cybdetective.com/webarchivevi... . Enter a URL, and the viewer will give you thumbnails of archive.org captures from multiple points in time.
NYT offers a look inside the Met Museum's book conservation lab (free link) www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/b...
April 18, 2024 at 5:04 PM
NYT offers a look inside the Met Museum's book conservation lab (free link) www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/b...
Legal research instructors - looking for a good case to emphasize that you shouldn't just take citator signals at face value? Here's a recent 9th Cir. case that specifically states that KeyCite put the wrong flag on one of their cases (starting p.7) cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
April 16, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Legal research instructors - looking for a good case to emphasize that you shouldn't just take citator signals at face value? Here's a recent 9th Cir. case that specifically states that KeyCite put the wrong flag on one of their cases (starting p.7) cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
Interesting post by the Morgan Library on how it created the specialized classification system for its collection www.themorgan.org/blog/origins...
April 11, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Interesting post by the Morgan Library on how it created the specialized classification system for its collection www.themorgan.org/blog/origins...
Themis Bar Review's owner buys Aspen Publishing - www.jdjournal.com/2024/03/08/u...
March 12, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Themis Bar Review's owner buys Aspen Publishing - www.jdjournal.com/2024/03/08/u...