"Republican lawmakers in Arizona have proposed creating a “grade challenge department,” to which public university students could complain that their professors gave them low grades because of political bias" https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/03/12/low-grade-az-bill-would-let-students-allege 

 Tomorrow I'm speaking remotely on a USPTO program regarding anti-counterfeiting/anti-piracy https://bit.ly/3LM36Wa I'll address rightsowner abuses & my SAD Scheme paper [https://bit.ly/3mCEful] 

 Blog Post: Some Personal Good News: I Received a University-Wide Award for Curriculum Innovation https://bit.ly/3PCXXRf 

 Good news: the Supreme Court will review the Florida and Texas social media censorship laws https://bit.ly/3tlHTM8

Bad news: the Supreme Court left in place the lower courts' terrible Zauderer analysis upholding those laws' compelled editorial transparency. Those provisions will facilitate censorship even if other parts of the laws are struck down. For more, see https://bit.ly/3XDDfEh 

 WordPerfect strikes again https://bit.ly/3Rs6au7

https://files.mastodon.lawprofs.org/media_attachments/files/111/072/616/536/993/094/original/1f09bd373904c22d.jpeg 

 A reminder about the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) economics: it has a $2.2M/yr operating budget & so far has awarded a total of $7k to rightsowners 🤔 https://bit.ly/3PDac1E

The authors hypothesize that "complex copyright disputes are ill-suited for a self-service small claims tribunal" 

 I'm surprised but pleased Twitter challenged AB587, California's mandatory editorial transparency law

Complaint: https://bit.ly/3Lfeae2

My overview article: https://bit.ly/3fBYSA3

Article specifically on Zauderer: https://bit.ly/3g4mAIH 

 Blog Post: Facebook Can Reject Unwanted Ads–Newton v. Meta https://bit.ly/3ZgwCsI