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Copyright Law
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In Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, the Supreme Court reversed a billion-dollar jury verdict and dismantled the 'knowledge plus material contribution' standard that lower courts had applied for fifty years. Here's what the new framework means for copyright holders, ISPs, and everyone in between.
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On March 25, 2026, the DOJ admitted it had spent nearly a year citing a policy memo that never applied to ICE's courthouse arrests — the very arrests it was using the memo to justify. Here's what that means for the people caught in the trap.
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