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Nick Szabo· 2026-04-04 19:06
RT Felix Prehn 🐶 (@felixprehn)It is now illegal for most American farmers to do what farmers have done for 10,000 years. Save seeds from their harvest to plant next season.Four corporations control over 60% of global seed sales. Bayer-Monsanto. Corteva. Syngenta-ChemChina. BASF.Over 80% of all corn and more than 90% of all soybeans planted in the United States use patented biotech seeds. Farmers sign licensing agreements that prohibit saving, replanting, or sharing seeds. Every season requires a new purchas ...
Pokémon rebukes White House's use of a similar image tied to the brand
NBC News· 2026-03-06 15:59
Pokemon Company International says it did not give the White House permission to use an image tied to its brand. That's after the administration posted a Make America Great Again meme on social media that looks similar to the cover of the company's new game. Pokemon hasn't said whether it will take legal action, but this highlights growing criticism of the government using intellectual property and political messaging online.The White House hasn't yet responded to our request for comment. ...
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vitalik.eth· 2026-02-24 19:17
I actually like private property more than I did a few years ago.One variable that changed for me is "stable era mindset vs chaotic era mindset". When you're in a "stable era", you see how private property is suboptimal, how economics can easily churn out 10+ categories of situations where it's obvious that certain taxes, incentives to make things available at better prices, etc can produce first-order gains with only second-order deadweight losses (which means that at low levels, the gains greatly exceed t ...
Novo says it’s suing Hims to stop obesity drug copycats
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-11 21:02
We saw him and hers come out with basically a copycat version of your oral GLP-1. Uh they since have scrapped that pill version and we saw the FDA come out and move pretty uh quickly against them. And so to start, I'm curious, you know, were you surprised at just how quickly the FDA acted there.>> I was happy. I think that's a better word to use. We have for a long time been discussing how we simply don't understand how this compounding has gotten to the level that it has mass compounding.When when you see ...
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Bloomberg· 2025-11-21 05:42
Intel Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan dismissed reports about a new hire taking trade secrets from TSMC to his company, saying the US chipmaker respects other firms’ intellectual property https://t.co/Zv8aysv7wn ...
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TechCrunch· 2025-10-04 16:32
OpenAI may be reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora. https://t.co/SnBlfLQb8U ...
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Bloomberg· 2025-09-16 14:38
Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. sue Chinese AI startup MiniMax for allegedly pirating their intellectual property https://t.co/Qk2Oqc7T7S ...
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Bloomberg· 2025-09-05 00:10
Intellectual Property Rights - Warner Bros sued AI startup Midjourney for alleged intellectual property theft [1] - The lawsuit claims Midjourney allowed unauthorized generation of images and videos of characters like Wonder Woman and Superman [1]
Disney CEO Bob Iger: AI will, over time, become an important component of how our company operates
CNBC Television· 2025-08-21 16:23
AI Strategy & Integration - Disney believes AI will be an important part of its future and is already using AI in every one of its businesses [2] - Disney anticipates AI will become an important component of how the company operates over time [2] Intellectual Property Protection - Disney attended a meeting at the White House with the president's AI team to discuss issues related to intellectual property protection [2] - It's critical to respect the creative community and be mindful of the impact of technology on intellectual property [3] - Intellectual property is essentially the core of Disney's company and what it does [3]
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The Economist· 2025-06-30 12:01
Previously, Chinese firms succeeded by learning to replicate Western products cheaply. Now they are accumulating intellectual property of their own. Western rivals will have to wake up and smell the bubble tea https://t.co/ttZyRH9ouL ...