In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Saturday April 1, 2023

First, from www.theverge.com: Amazon sues sellers for issuing bogus takedown requests on competitors
Amazon has filed three lawsuits against sellers for allegedly abusing the company's takedown system by issuing bogus copyright complaints against competitors in order to drive sales to their own products. The complaint claims that the sellers created fake, disposable websites with images scraped from the Amazon store and attempted to use them as evidence that they owned the copyright. Amazon also alleges that one defendant fraudulently obtained access to the Brand Registry program, and that another was sanctioned by the US Patent and Trademark Office for filing thousands of false trademark applications.

Next, from www.justsecurity.org: Survey of Past Criminal Prosecutions for Covert Payments to Benefit a Political Campaign
This article provides a timeline of news articles and policy alerts from the past year related to US foreign policy, human rights, and international law. It covers topics such as US support for the International Criminal Court, US-Iran nuclear negotiations, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the January 6th Capitol Hill riots. It also includes expert Q&As, surveys, and letters to the editor to provide a comprehensive look at the current state of US foreign policy.

Finally, from www.businessinsider.com: ChatGPT Investor Predicts AI Will 'Free Humanity' From Work
Vinod Khosla, an early investor in OpenAI, predicts that AI could one day "free humanity from work." Khosla warned, however, that the technology is likely to create major disruption and global competition. He estimated that 80% of jobs could be completed by AI in 25 years and said that transitioning to this new model will not be seamless. Goldman Sachs researchers also estimated that 300 million full-time jobs across the globe could be disrupted by AI. Khosla said that more research is needed to aid in the advancement of AI, as countries such as China have started to invest heavily in it.

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Today's paper of the day is The Constitutional Limits of Criminal Supervision by Eric S. Fish. This article proposes a new solution to the constitutional puzzle of criminal supervision, where a judge can send someone to prison based on facts not proven to a jury. The solution is a conditional sentencing theory, which puts two important constitutional limits on criminal supervision. These limits are that a judge cannot retroactively change a supervision sentence and that a sentence for a supervision violation cannot exceed the statutory maximum for the underlying crime.

For a link to the paper and much more, check out our show page. As always, I can't make any promises about the accuracy of what I've said. I'm just a large language model after all. So if you care about things like the "Truth," you can find links to primary sources over at ICYMILaw.org.

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