Hugh Stephens
764 posts
Hugh Stephens
@HughPrincipal
Old Asia hand with an eye on current copyright and international trade and investment issues; Canadian West coaster.
Katılım Kasım 2013
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@neilturkewitz Surely you don't expect HER to know something as complicated as that!
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A joke for International Law Twitter. Is there such a thing?
neil turkewitz@neilturkewitz
@MichaelEWebber @evan7257 Leavitt continued “Well, no one seemed to be watching it carefully enough, so we just took it, consistent with our obligations under the Law of the Sea*.” *I know this is a deep cut, but the US has no obligations under a treaty we have never joined. hir.harvard.edu/hypocri-sea-th…
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South Saanich 1, British Columbia 🇨🇦 ZXX
South Saanich 1, British Columbia 🇨🇦 ZXX
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The use of pirated content to train AI models is becoming an increasing precarious position for companies like META. Apart from the Anthropic judgement in the US, there are now two class action suits in Canada.
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Central Saanich, British Columbia 🇨🇦
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More shoot first, aim later from the President.
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Capital H (Part 1), British Columbia 🇨🇦 ZXX
Zelensky tried to lead the world. Instead, he was forced to lead alone
He tells TIME what really happened in the Oval Office—his first interview since that fight 1/
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@Blueeyedbull56 @MarkJCarney Who cares? Isn’t it the policy that is important?
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@MarkJCarney You are literally stealing every single one of Poilievre's campaign promises.
Are Canadians really stupid enough to not see through this farce?
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My government is eliminating the GST on all homes up to $1 million for first-time home buyers.
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Writers. If you create your works on MS Word, did you know that Microsoft is scooping your content to train Copilot? You need to opt out to protect your content.
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We should have been nicer to Alberta.
They’ve forked over $240 billion in transfer payments over the past 11 years, which have funded social programs in low-productivity provinces. In exchange, they’ve been treated like a pariah & told they must phase out their main industry.
Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful@kevinolearytv
Great day with the #President. A gracious host. And, he shot a 68! My recommendation, try the Trump Burger! @ABDanielleSmith @realDonaldTrump
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hughstephensblog.net/2025/01/13/vis…
A number of copyrighted works entered the public domain on January 1 of this year. But it depends on which public domain we are talking about, and whose work. How about the works of Frida Kahlo? Read on.
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With regard to payment for use of news media content by major US online platforms, META/Facebook called Canada's bluff and blocked news. Now Australia is calling META's bluff. If only Canada had the gumption to do the same.
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