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When The New York Times sued artificial intelligence company OpenAI recently, alleging that its tool ChatGPT violated copyright law, it didn’t just ask for damages – it asked a federal court to “destroy” the offending chatbot and make it impossible to rebuild.
That might sound like a bit much – how often do courts demand a business’s top product be destroyed? But as Indiana University law professor João Marinotti notes, in the U.S. there’s a history of letting the courts break stuff like this. It’s just rooted in the intellectual-property needs of a pre-digital world.
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Tracy Walsh
Economy + Business Editor, The Conversation U.S.
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João Marinotti, Indiana University
It may seem extreme, but there’s a reason the law allows it.
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Investing
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Angelique Nadia Sweetman McInnes, CQUniversity Australia
Exchange-traded funds allow you to spread your risk across many different regions and markets (such as shares, bonds, property and companies). You aren’t putting all your eggs in one basket.
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Inequality
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Nicole Racine, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Shainur Premji, University of York
Over one million Canadian children live in poverty. Child poverty is a pernicious childhood adversity that has detrimental long-term impacts on health, development and well-being throughout life.
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Nonprofits
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Jonathan Wynn, UMass Amherst; Daniel Skinner, Ohio University
Standards are vague, and the IRS, which is tasked with enforcement, hasn’t provided much oversight.
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Transportation
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Vivek Astvansh, McGill University
The ‘everything store’ doesn’t offer every type of car, at least not yet. But a pilot program could still be a step toward online auto sales.
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Personal finance
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Susan Thorp, University of Sydney
As a person now closing in on retirement, I admit I had no idea in my 20s how much my future, and the futures of those close to me, would depend on my superannuation savings.
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Work
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Aliette Lambert, University of Bath; George Ferns, University of Bath
The legendary psychoanalyst would encourage us to embrace the feminine at work and at home by resisting the urge to see life as a linear, organised path.
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