In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Monday May 8, 2023

First, from terikanefield.com: Rape is a Means of Asserting Patriarchal Power and Why MAGA is Cool with Trump Grabbing Women: Observations on the E. Jean Carroll case
In this article, Teri Kanefield explores the history of rape laws in the United States and how they reflect the patriarchal values of our society. She explains how rape has been treated as a property crime and how, historically, men have been protected from rape prosecutions due to women not being considered competent to testify in court. Kanefield highlights how attitudes towards rape have shifted over time, but that some people still believe that a woman's word in a rape case cannot be sufficient evidence.

Next, from www.theguardian.com: Ed Sheeran on copyright infringement lawsuit: ‘Comes with the territory’
In an interview with CBS News, British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran commented on his recent victory in a copyright infringement lawsuit involving his hit song "Thinking Out Loud" and Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On". Sheeran stated that defending copyright infringement lawsuits comes with the territory of being a successful musician. He also pointed out that basic musical building blocks are freely used by many musicians and should not be seen as copyright infringement. This ruling comes after a separate court case in London last year where Sheeran was found not liable of copyright infringement with his song "Shape of You" and after the Gaye family won a judgement of $5.3 million in 2015 against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams’s song "Blurred Lines" for copyright infringement.

Finally, from www.theguardian.com: ‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees
In a move to challenge exploitative academic publishing practices, a team of over 40 leading scientists have resigned from their positions on the editorial board of the journal Neuroimage. This comes after the publishing giant Elsevier refused to reduce publication charges. Professors from Oxford University, King's College London and Cardiff University have come together to start a new nonprofit open-access journal, citing Elsevier's enormous profit margins outstripping those of Apple, Google and Amazon as unethical. Elsevier has responded by saying they value their editors and strive to keep article publishing charges below the market average. Libraries are also facing exploitative pricing models in both teaching and research. This digital divide is creating a digital hierarchy of haves and have-nots.

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Today's paper of the day is Global Data Privacy Laws 2023: 162 National Laws and 20 Bills and is written by Graham Greenleaf. This paper assesses the data privacy laws and Bills that have been enacted since 2021, and documents them for all countries. It also documents the current state of international agreements on data privacy and international cooperation between data protection authorities. As of February 2021, 17 new countries have enacted data privacy laws, bringing the total to 162 globally. There are still 36 UN member countries without data privacy laws, however, it is likely that most of these countries will develop them soon. The paper concludes that data privacy laws will become ubiquitous across the globe in the near future.

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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