California attorney Mark Lemley dropped Meta Platforms Inc. as a client in a high-profile copyright case because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” the Stanford University professor said on LinkedIn.
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Lemley the lawyer believes that the AI copyright infringement dispute should be pursued, they decided to not be the attorney on behalf of Meta cause Zuck has serious personal issues.
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California attorney Mark Lemley dropped Meta Platforms Inc. as a client in a high-profile copyright case because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” the Stanford University professor said on LinkedIn.
Lemley said in a Monday post he still believes Meta to be “on the right side in the generative AI copyright dispute,” but that he “cannot in good conscience serve as their lawyer any longer.”
TL;DR:
Lemley the lawyer believes that the AI copyright infringement dispute should be pursued, they decided to not be the attorney on behalf of Meta cause Zuck has serious personal issues.
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The day a lawyer calls you these things explicitly, there’s no denying it.