Lloyd Jassin

Publishing & Entertainment Attorney. Retweets not amens.

[Mediagazer @mediagazer]

A federal judge rules that two statutes Marco Rubio used to try to deport legal immigrants for their speech violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutional (The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)

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[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

Google's new AI tool, Expert Intelligence, lets readers query e-books bought from the Google Play store, along with other features, and includes more than 100,000 titles, mostly trade nonfiction, from such publishers as Penguin Random House, Macmillan, and Bloomsbury, who noted the tool’s respect for copyright protections. PRH CEO Nihar Malaviya called it “an example of how AI use cases can be developed responsibly.” https://t.co/NIydUfI9ti

[Lloyd Jassin @LloydJassin]

Huxley feared technology would make us lazy and compliant. It’s worse: it’s destroying the professional pipelines needed to build deep human expertise.
"The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons" is a vital read.

https://t.co/8cbPY1FacL

[Lloyd Jassin @LloydJassin]

From dime novels to basketball to Elvis’s hips to hip-hop, every generation’s scolds mistake youth culture for civilizational collapse.

[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

Trump’s scheme to charge $100,000 per month for advance access to official government announcements on Truth Social violates the First and Fifth amendments to the Constitution.

We're taking him to court.
https://t.co/1zgZinKCkD

[Kathy Sandler @ksandler1]

Textbook authors file class action suit alleging OpenAI stole hundreds of academic volumes: The authors say there won’t be updated educational information in the future because no one will be paid to write it. https://t.co/EkxNSxP1Wv

[Bardweb.net @ShakespeareRes]

Aug 23, 1600: Much Ado About Nothing and Henry VI Part 2 are entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD #Shakespeare
https://t.co/cLshZm00f1

[Kathy Sandler @ksandler1]

Mass. puts "freedom to read" law on the books https://t.co/W38wCmzTeU

[Adam Eisgrau @AdamEisgrau]

The case is Tanzer v. Adobe Inc., 3:26-cv-04712, (N.D. Cal.)
https://t.co/dsfw1IPo47

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The spectacular implosions of big book deals over AI use are forcing a reckoning over creativity, trust and the future of the publishing industry. 🔗 https://t.co/2dWFKMHWQ7

[How To Prompt @HowToPrompt__]

Harvard and MIT just built an AI simulation containing 8.3 billion virtual people, roughly the entire population of Earth.

They call it MatrAIx.

It is a population-scale digital simulation infrastructure powered by frontier models like GPT and Claude.

They mapped out an insanely detailed dataset called Persona 8B. It contains 8.3 billion unique digital profiles.

Every single persona is defined across 1,290 categorical dimensions.

Backgrounds, psychology, spending habits, behavioral quirks, technical literacy, and lifestyle.

They didn't just build a database of stats. They brought them to life.

The researchers dropped these billion persona agents into four distinct digital environments:

• Surveys
• AI chat interfaces
• Live web browsing
• Native desktop and mobile apps

Then they tested how this digital Earth reacted to real-world products, software updates, and pricing shifts.

The system recorded everything: how long an agent hesitated after a price increase, when they abandoned a broken checkout flow, and how much latency they would tolerate before closing an app.

When researchers tested persona adherence, the AI agents successfully maintained their assigned psychological and demographic behavior 91.5% of the time.

Think about what this means for the future of business.

You no longer have to wait weeks for a market research firm to tell you if a product feature will fail.

You can simulate how 8 billion different types of humans will react to it in real time, overnight, on a single server.

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

Eric C. So, a professor of global economics and behavioral science at MIT, debuts with an impressive examination of how artificial intelligence is reshaping society and the human mind. Clear-eyed, nuanced, and highly accessible, this is a persuasive call to harness AI’s potential without surrendering the capacities that make people human. @wwnorton https://t.co/C7P9DVZS3K

[Media Law News @Media_Laws]

California’s AI Transparency Act Arrives Alongside Europe’s Article 50 https://t.co/psIIIbaSwP | by @edrm

[Lloyd Jassin @LloydJassin]

@BrantForseng You may register a work with the Copyright Office under a pen name, but the registration protects the copyrighted work—not the pen name itself. A pen name may be protectable, if at all, through trademark or unfair-competition law rather than copyright

[Volokh Conspiracy @VolokhC]

[Eugene Volokh] Reality Show Participant's #Scandoval Sex Videos Aren't of "Public Interest" for California Anti-SLAPP Law Purposes https://t.co/ufiTsRfUG4

[The Chicago Manual of Style @ChicagoManual]

When naming the title of a book or an article or the like, either “titled” or “entitled” is correct, though the former is usually preferred. And don’t use a comma after either one. Details in the Q&A. https://t.co/sg4LFXrifF

[Lloyd Jassin @LloydJassin]

MSG revives legal theory that once haunted ‘60 Minutes’

➡️ Follow @FreedomofPress for more.

https://t.co/ANMSsJwSlP

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

After almost three years of litigation, Penguin Random House and the rest of the Big Five, along with the Authors Guild, Laurie Halse Anderson, and Jodi Picoult, have filed an amended complaint asking the district court to consider whether Iowa’s statewide book banning law was applied incorrectly to nine books. https://t.co/FXUDoULDzA

[Lloyd Jassin @LloydJassin]

@NewYorker Roy Cohn may have taught Donald Trump how to shape the media narrative and avoid a paper trail. But Trump’s own personality disorder may deserve most of the credit for his success.

[Lloyd Jassin @LloydJassin]

Provocative essay on the creation of living storyworlds at scale by Jeff Gomez. The hardest questions may ultimately be less about technology than governance https://t.co/06EbJ4pF3q