Ian Ballon - internet/mobile/AI litigator & published author
@ianballon.bsky.social
I am an internet/ ai/ mobile litigator and Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group, a published author of legal treatises and books (www.IanBallon.net), an open water diver, and a Californian via Canada
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My interview with the LA Times about trends in AI law, which was published today
My interview with the LA Times about trends in AI law, which was published today
Ian C. Ballon and Raymond Matsumoto Share Insights on What Businesses Need to Know in the Age of A.I.
Legal expert Ian C. Ballon and COO Raymond Matsumoto offer critical insights on how businesses can successfully navigate the AI landscape, focusing on governance, IP and privacy risks, ethical impleme...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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My interview with the LA Times about trends in AI law, which was published today
My interview with the LA Times about trends in AI law, which was published today
Honored to be recognized by Best Lawyers for intellectual property litigation, trade secret law, privacy and data security and as lawyer of the year for technology law
August 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Honored to be recognized by Best Lawyers for intellectual property litigation, trade secret law, privacy and data security and as lawyer of the year for technology law
PSA
Stay safe
Tsunami alert upgraded to ‘advisory’ for California coast after massive Russian earthquake
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Stay safe
Tsunami alert upgraded to ‘advisory’ for California coast after massive Russian earthquake
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Tsunami alert upgraded to 'advisory' for California coast after massive Russian earthquake
The tsunami advisory was issued for the California coast after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia.
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July 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
PSA
Stay safe
Tsunami alert upgraded to ‘advisory’ for California coast after massive Russian earthquake
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Stay safe
Tsunami alert upgraded to ‘advisory’ for California coast after massive Russian earthquake
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My Digital Hollywood panel. Link in the comments
July 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
My Digital Hollywood panel. Link in the comments
Join us at the Digital Hollywood Summer Summit on July 21–23! I will be moderating the panel “AI & the Law: A ‘Deep Dive’ – Fair Use, Copyright and the Doctrine of Innovation,” which will explore the legal and creative implications of artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry.
July 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Join us at the Digital Hollywood Summer Summit on July 21–23! I will be moderating the panel “AI & the Law: A ‘Deep Dive’ – Fair Use, Copyright and the Doctrine of Innovation,” which will explore the legal and creative implications of artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry.
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Message in a bottle
A message sent after a romantic day in Newfoundland in 2012 was found this week, 13 years later, in Ireland
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Message in a bottle
A message sent after a romantic day in Newfoundland in 2012 was found this week, 13 years later, in Ireland
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A love note in a bottle is found years later, an ocean away
Anita and Brad’s message floated all the way from Canada’s Bell Island to Ireland’s west coast — leaving online detectives wondering: Were they still together?
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July 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Message in a bottle
A message sent after a romantic day in Newfoundland in 2012 was found this week, 13 years later, in Ireland
Free to read outside the paywall
Message in a bottle
A message sent after a romantic day in Newfoundland in 2012 was found this week, 13 years later, in Ireland
Free to read outside the paywall
Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board meeting
June 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board meeting
Co-chairing Stanford’s 22nd annual Digital Economy Best Practices conference
June 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Co-chairing Stanford’s 22nd annual Digital Economy Best Practices conference
Speaking on the future of AI at the annual meeting of the Copyright Society
June 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Speaking on the future of AI at the annual meeting of the Copyright Society
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April 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Congressman Don Bacon (R-Nebraska)
“Supporting Ukraine in its struggle against Russian aggression is not only morally right. It is also in our national interest, because the future cost of abandoning Ukraine would vastly outweigh the investment we have made in rejecting Russia’s aggression.”
“Supporting Ukraine in its struggle against Russian aggression is not only morally right. It is also in our national interest, because the future cost of abandoning Ukraine would vastly outweigh the investment we have made in rejecting Russia’s aggression.”
Opinion | My Fellow Republicans and President Trump, We Must Stand Up to Putin
The administration must be crystal clear that we are aligned with democracy, free markets and the rule of law.
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April 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Congressman Don Bacon (R-Nebraska)
“Supporting Ukraine in its struggle against Russian aggression is not only morally right. It is also in our national interest, because the future cost of abandoning Ukraine would vastly outweigh the investment we have made in rejecting Russia’s aggression.”
“Supporting Ukraine in its struggle against Russian aggression is not only morally right. It is also in our national interest, because the future cost of abandoning Ukraine would vastly outweigh the investment we have made in rejecting Russia’s aggression.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
Almost every detail in this article would have been unimaginable just a few months ago
Almost every detail in this article would have been unimaginable just a few months ago
Analysis: Trump’s Tariffs Disrupt Global Trade Without a Clear Strategy (Gift Article)
The global trading system is only one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan for how to replace it.
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April 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Almost every detail in this article would have been unimaginable just a few months ago
Almost every detail in this article would have been unimaginable just a few months ago
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A cogent explanation of what is going on. If you read only one Op-Ed today this should be it.
A cogent explanation of what is going on. If you read only one Op-Ed today this should be it.
Trump’s Big New Propaganda Push
Nothing says “restoring truth and sanity to American history” quite like lying about it.
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March 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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A cogent explanation of what is going on. If you read only one Op-Ed today this should be it.
A cogent explanation of what is going on. If you read only one Op-Ed today this should be it.
I wonder what it is about white South Africans that Trump likes given that he is deporting Black and Latino immigrants who had legal status that Trump revoked? Whites, but not Blacks, from Musk’s homeland are being recruited to immigrate to the United States.
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Free to read outside the paywall
‘Mission South Africa’: How Trump Is Offering White Afrikaners Refugee Status (Gift Article)
The United States has banned most refugees, including 20,000 people who were already ready to travel to the United States before President Trump took office. But Mr. Trump is making one exception.
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March 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I wonder what it is about white South Africans that Trump likes given that he is deporting Black and Latino immigrants who had legal status that Trump revoked? Whites, but not Blacks, from Musk’s homeland are being recruited to immigrate to the United States.
Free to read outside the paywall
Free to read outside the paywall
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Trump’s former National Security Advisor is one of the few conservatives left in Washington willing to speak plainly about Trump II’s dangerous foreign policy. This interview is worth reading in its entirely.
Trump’s former National Security Advisor is one of the few conservatives left in Washington willing to speak plainly about Trump II’s dangerous foreign policy. This interview is worth reading in its entirely.
‘He Thinks He and Putin Are Friends’: John Bolton on How Trump Gets Manipulated
Trump’s former national security adviser lets loose on the leaked Signal group chat and Trump’s foreign policy.
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March 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Trump’s former National Security Advisor is one of the few conservatives left in Washington willing to speak plainly about Trump II’s dangerous foreign policy. This interview is worth reading in its entirely.
Trump’s former National Security Advisor is one of the few conservatives left in Washington willing to speak plainly about Trump II’s dangerous foreign policy. This interview is worth reading in its entirely.
“B/y the fact that this kind of shitposting is so obviously beneath the office, the posts are genuinely sinister. By adding a photo of an ICE arrest..the White House account manages to perfectly capture the sociopathic, fascistic tone of ironic detachment and glee of the internet’s darkest corners..
The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account
Welcome to the 4chan administration.
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March 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“B/y the fact that this kind of shitposting is so obviously beneath the office, the posts are genuinely sinister. By adding a photo of an ICE arrest..the White House account manages to perfectly capture the sociopathic, fascistic tone of ironic detachment and glee of the internet’s darkest corners..
Putin is playing Trump and Witkoff like a Stradivarius
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Opinion | Putin is playing Trump and Witkoff like a Stradivarius
Does Trump seriously believe Putin is negotiating in good faith to end the war in Ukraine?
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March 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Putin is playing Trump and Witkoff like a Stradivarius
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Free to read outside the paywall
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Disturbing. Free to read outside the paywall www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
A Video From Tufts Captures the Fear and Aggression in Trump’s Crackdown (Gift Article)
The tactics on display in the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk were not new — plainclothes officers, faces obscured — but as ICE actions ramp up, scrutiny may increase.
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March 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Disturbing. Free to read outside the paywall www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
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Join me for a year in review presentation today or message me for an on demand link
Join me for a year in review presentation today or message me for an on demand link
Internet & Computer Law Year in Review
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March 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Join me for a year in review presentation today or message me for an on demand link
Join me for a year in review presentation today or message me for an on demand link
“In george orwell’s 1984, …Oceania is suddenly no longer at war with Eurasia, but instead is at war with Eastasia, and always has been…
Republican politicians in Donald Trump’s Inner Party faced a similar verbal challenge when the president changed sides in Russia’s war against Ukraine…”
Republican politicians in Donald Trump’s Inner Party faced a similar verbal challenge when the president changed sides in Russia’s war against Ukraine…”
The Hollow Men
It takes a special talent to betray an entire worldview without missing a beat.
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March 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“In george orwell’s 1984, …Oceania is suddenly no longer at war with Eurasia, but instead is at war with Eastasia, and always has been…
Republican politicians in Donald Trump’s Inner Party faced a similar verbal challenge when the president changed sides in Russia’s war against Ukraine…”
Republican politicians in Donald Trump’s Inner Party faced a similar verbal challenge when the president changed sides in Russia’s war against Ukraine…”
“If the government says we don't have to give process for that, then y'all could have picked me up on Saturday and thrown me on a plane thinking I'm a member of Tren de Aragua and given me no chance to protest it," said Judge Patricia Millett.
‘Nazis Got Better Treatment’: DC Circuit Judge Slams DOJ Attorney on Alien Enemies Act Deportations
“If the government says we don't have to give process for that, then y'all could have picked me up on Saturday and thrown me on a plane thinking I'm a member of Tren de Aragua and given me no chance to protest it," said Judge Patricia Millett.
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March 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“If the government says we don't have to give process for that, then y'all could have picked me up on Saturday and thrown me on a plane thinking I'm a member of Tren de Aragua and given me no chance to protest it," said Judge Patricia Millett.