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☆ Sarah Silverman says her lawsuit against OpenAI is difficult because the company is one of the 'richest entities in the world'
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Silverman discussed her copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT. Comedian Sarah Silverman opened up about her copyright infringement lawsuit against Sam Altman's OpenAI, which owns the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. The lawsuit's defendants include OpenAI, L.P. and OpenAI GP, L.L.C, among other entities. The plaintiffs originally sued OpenAI for direct copyright infringement, vicarious copyright infringement, violating The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, unjust enrichment, violating the California and common law unfair competition laws, and negligence. The judge dismissed all the claims except direct copyright infringement and unfair competition, prompting the plaintiffs to file an amended lawsuit in March.

Persons: Sarah Silverman, Rob Lowe's, Silverman, Sam Altman's OpenAI, ChatGPT, Rob Lowe, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Nehisi Coates, Laura Lippman, Paul Tremblay, Jason Redmond, It's, Lowe, that's Organizations: Rob Lowe's Sirius XM, OpenAI, Microsoft, Court, Northern District of, Northern District of California San Francisco Division, Business, Copyright Locations: Northern District, Northern District of California, AFP, California

☆ Sanitation Company Fined $649,000 for Hiring Children in Slaughterhouses
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Tennessee-based sanitation company has been fined more than $649,000 after an investigation revealed that it had illegally employed at least two dozen children at slaughterhouses and meatpacking facilities, the Labor Department said this week. The company, Fayette Janitorial Service L.L.C., was found to have hired the children, some as young as 13, during overnight shifts that involved using corrosive materials to clean “dangerous kill floor equipment” at facilities in Sioux City, Iowa, and Accomac, Va., the department said in a news release. A temporary restraining order in February required the company to stop employing the children, and on Monday, it agreed in federal court to pay the fine, hire a third party to make sure no underage workers are employed in the future and establish a program for reporting violations, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. It is illegal under the Fair Labor Standards Act to hire anyone under 18 for the kind of hazardous work that is often involved in meat and poultry slaughtering, processing, rendering and packing operations. But that has not stopped thousands of migrant children from coming to the United States from Mexico and Central America to work dangerous jobs, in places including meatpacking plants.

Organizations: Labor Department, Northern, Northern District of, Fair Labor, Act Locations: Tennessee, slaughterhouses, Fayette, Sioux City , Iowa, Accomac, Va, U.S, Northern District, Northern District of Iowa, United States, Mexico, Central America

A group of poultry producers, including the world’s largest, have asked a federal judge to dismiss his ruling that they polluted an Oklahoma watershed. Arkansas-based Tyson Foods, Minnesota-based Cargill Inc. and the others say in a motion filed Thursday that evidence in the case is now more than 13 years old. A spokesperson for Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond did not immediately return a phone call for comment Saturday. “The Court’s findings and conclusions rest upon a record compiled in 2005–2009,” the poultry companies' motion stated. Attorneys for the companies and the state attorney general each said in Thursday filings that mediation had failed.

Persons: Tyson, Judge Gregory Frizzell, Gentner Drummond, Frizzell, ” Frizzell, Cobb Organizations: Tyson Foods, Cargill Inc, U.S, Oklahoma, Tulsa, Cal, Maine Foods Inc, Tyson Poultry Inc, Tyson Chicken Inc, Vantress, Cargill, George’s Inc, George’s, Inc, Peterson Farms Inc, Simmons Foods Inc Locations: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tyson Foods , Minnesota, Tulsa, Illinois, Cargill Turkey

☆ DocGo Used Unregistered Guards at Migrant Hotels, N.Y. Officials Charge
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Jay Root | More About Jay Root | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

More than 50 security guards hired to protect asylum seekers bused upstate from New York City by a troubled migrant contractor are working without proper authorization, a New York Department of State investigation found. The department on Friday notified the two security companies that hired the guards — Trace Assets Protection Service L.L.C. and Wawanda Investigations and Security Company L.L.C. In some cases, it was not even clear if the guards were employees of the two security firms. “Please take notice that the continued employment of the above individuals, unless properly registered with the Department, is a continued and willful violation of law,” Ms. Clark wrote.

Persons: Whitney A, Clark, ” Ms Organizations: New York Department of State, Wawanda Investigations, Security Company, The New York Times, State, Business Development, Department Locations: New York City, New York, Erie County, Albany County

☆ An $80 Million Duplex Is the Priciest Closing (So Far) This Year
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Vivian Marino | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The year’s most expensive sale in New York City took place in August at 220 Central Park South in Midtown, where an expansive duplex in the villa portion of the park-facing condo complex closed at $80 million. It sold for $30 million, far less than the $110 million initially sought by the developers six years ago. The buyer was Scott Lynn, an art collector and the founder and chief executive of Masterworks, an art investment platform. The crown penthouse at the new 20-story condo at 109 East 79th Street also sold, for $35 million, which was the month’s second biggest sale. The full-floor unit has 5,721 square feet, plus an additional 3,666 square feet of outdoor space.

Persons: Nima Capital, Suna Said, Scott Lynn Organizations: New York City, Nima, Woolworth, Masterworks Locations: New York, Midtown, TriBeCa

☆ Business Is Betting That Consumers Have Gotten Used to High Prices - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When companies’ input costs go up for some reason, the prices they charge their customers go up like a rocket. The example most of us can relate to is the retail price of gasoline. At least in the feather scenario, retail prices do go down. Rines said he coined the term “price over volume” in June 2022 to describe how companies were fighting higher costs at the time. “If you’re profit-maximizing you’re going to do that and you should do that,” he told me.

Persons: Samuel Rines, Rines, ” Organizations: “ Locations: U.S, Houston

☆ An Elite School, a Boy’s Suicide and a Question of Blame
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( John Leland | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Suspected suicide attempts among adolescents Ellis’s age were up 49 percent in 2021 compared with prepandemic levels, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Because it did not contextualize in any way what the issues were in my son’s suicide. And it says the school is being proactive to deal with this mental health crisis. Totally dishonest.”Jeffrey Gural, Ellis’s grandfather, also pressed the school’s board of trustees. The elder Mr. Gural is chairman of GFP Real Estate L.L.C.

Persons: Gural, Tompkins, “, ”, ” Jeffrey Gural, Ellis’s, Newmark Knight Frank, Ellis, ‘, ’ ”, Ann’s Organizations: Centers for Disease Control, Newmark Holdings

☆ Opinion | How Christians and Drag Queens Are Defending the First Amendment
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Last year, I wrote an amicus brief in a case called 303 Creative L.L.C. v. Elenis, arguing that a wedding website designer had a First Amendment right not to speak. This case was not, as it has been widely described, about whether a website designer could refuse gay customers. That would be both illegal and immoral, and I would not participate in such a case. The case was not about whether a business could refuse to provide goods or services but whether it could refuse to generate specific expressions with which it disagreed.

Persons: Lorie Smith, “ ‘, ‘, Smith, Neil Gorsuch, Bostock Organizations: Supreme Locations: Colorado, Clayton County

The case, though framed as clash between free speech and gay rights, was the latest in a series of decisions in favor of religious people and groups, notably conservative Christians. A Colorado law forbids discrimination against gay people by businesses open to the public as well as statements announcing such discrimination. But when the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, 303 Creative L.L.C. He was the author of every major Supreme Court decision protecting gay rights under the Constitution. But he was also the court’s most ardent defender of free speech.

Persons: Neil M, Gorsuch, Lorie Smith, Smith, Smith’s, Mary Beck Briscoe, Judge Briscoe, “, ” Judge Briscoe, Timothy M, Tymkovich, George Orwell, ’ ”, ”, Anthony M, Kennedy, Justice Kennedy, Jack Phillips, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Brett M, Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett Organizations: Supreme, U.S ., Appeals, Circuit, Colorado Civil Rights Commission Locations: Colorado, Denver, “ Colorado

☆ Sudan: Biden administration imposes sanctions and visa restrictions in response to ongoing violence
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Jennifer Hansler | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The Biden administration on Thursday imposed financial sanctions and visa restrictions in response to the ongoing violence in Sudan. The announcement of the sanctions comes a day after the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) announced it was walking away from talks with the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) following numerous ceasefire violations by both sides and as the conflict in Sudan – which has killed hundreds, injured thousands, and triggered a humanitarian catastrophe – continues. “It’s important, in our view, to hold people accountable and to recognize that until the calculus of both parties change they will continue to fight each other and destroy this country,” a senior administration official told reporters Thursday. In addition to the financial sanctions, the US State Department imposed visa restrictions “on specific individuals in Sudan, including officials from the SAF, RSF, and leaders from the former Omar al-Bashir regime, responsible for, or complicit in, undermining Sudan’s democratic transition,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. The State Department did not specify who the individuals are.

Persons: CNN —, Biden, ”, Joe Biden, Omar al, Bashir, Antony Blinken, “, –, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Abdel Fattah al, Burhan –, Al Junaid, Hemedti, Abdul Rahim Dagalo, Major Algoney Hamdan Dagalo Organizations: CNN, Sudanese Armed Forces, SAF, Rapid Support Forces, US Treasury Department, US State Department, State Department, Treasury Department, Al, Co, Major Algoney Hamdan Dagalo . Defense Industries, Technology, Defense Industries System, Department, Sudan “ Locations: Sudan, ”, Saudi, Jeddah, “, United States, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

☆ US imposes sanctions on companies tied to Sudan forces as fighting rages
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/2] Smoke rises above buildings after an aerial bombardment, during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum North, Sudan, May 1, 2023. Sudan's army and the RSF did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Saudi Arabia and the U.S. said late on Thursday they were suspending the talks, a day after Sudan's army announced it was halting its participation. They target Sudan's largest defence enterprise, Defence Industries System, which the Treasury said generates an estimated $2 billion in revenue and manufactures arms and other equipment for Sudan's army. The companies, all key to the business and procurement activities of both forces, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Persons: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah, Nadir Ahmed, Joe Biden, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Antony Blinken, Omar al, Bashir, El, Cindy McCain, Cameron Hudson, Hudson, Khalid Abdelaziz, Tala, Nafisa Eltahir, Simon Lewis, Rami Ayyub, Daphne Psaledakis, Gladwys, Aidan Lewis, Christina Fincher, Andrew Heavens Organizations: Rapid Support Forces, REUTERS, Darfur Saudi, U.S . Treasury Department, Residents, U.S, Defence Industries System, Treasury, Technology, United Nations, Food, Army, Centre, Strategic, International Studies, United Arab Emirates, Thomson Locations: Khartoum North, Sudan, Khartoum, Darfur, Jeddah, KHARTOUM, WASHINGTON, United States, U.S, Nile, Omdurman, Bahri, Thawra, Saudi Arabia, Washington, El, Zalingei, Port Sudan, El Obeid, Russia, Dubai, Nafisa, Cairo, Oslo

☆ U.S. imposes new sanctions over Iran sanctions evasion, targets Chinese firms
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Daphne Psaledakis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Washington has increasingly targeted Chinese companies over the export of Iran's petrochemicals as the prospects of reviving the nuclear pact have dimmed. "The United States will continue to implement sanctions against those actors facilitating these sales." Iran's mission to the United Nations in New York did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Those that engage in certain transactions with the companies also risk being hit with sanctions. Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis; Editing by Andrea Ricci and Jon BoyleOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Masă rotundă dedicată aniversării a 75 de ani de la fondarea USM, cu genericul „Medierea civilă și penală”
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-14 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

Astăzi, 14 mai 2021, Departamentul Drept Procedural al Facultății de Drept a Universității de Stat din Moldova a organizat, în regim online, masa rotundă dedicată aniversării a 75 de ani de la înființarea USM, cu genericul „Medierea civilă și penală”. La eveniment au participat reprezentanți ai mediului academic, ai organizațiilor internaționale și asociațiilor obștești, mediatori, doctoranzi, studenți, precum și alte persoane interesate. univ., decan al Facultății de Drept, USM și Belei Elena, conf. Masa rotundă cu genericul „Medierea civilă și penală” a reprezentat un eveniment util și semnificativ în planul promovării medierii, precum și familiarizării publicului larg cu realizările existente în acest plan în momentul de față, care au fost abordate tranșant în cadrul comunicărilor. Acest material a fost scris și redactat de echipa USM.

Persons: Igor Dolea, ., Felicia Chifa, Serghei Brînză, Elena, conf, L.L.C Organizations: Universității de Stat, USM, Millenium DPI, Organizația Internațională Locations: Moldova, USM, Republica Moldova

With the term “personal taxes,” however, Mr. Garten appears to be conflating income taxes with other federal taxes Mr. Trump has paid — Social Security, Medicare and taxes for his household employees. Fragments of Mr. Trump’s tax returns have leaked out before. Mr. Agalarov’s father, Aras, a billionaire who boasts of close ties to Mr. Putin, was Mr. Trump’s partner in the event. Mr. Trump’s avoidance of income taxes is one of the most striking discoveries in his tax returns, especially given the vast wash of income itemized elsewhere in those filings. When they got to line 56, the one for income taxes due, the amount was the same each year: $750.

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