article thumbnail

‘Sustainable’ Logging Operations Are Clear-Cutting Canada’s Climate-Fighting Forests

Insurance Journal

With its vast expanses of forest, Canada has the most “certified” sustainable timber operations of any nation, according to the nonprofit organizations that attest to the environmental soundness of logging practices. Such forestry-standards groups were born in the 1990s out …

article thumbnail

German Court Says Non-Commercial AI Training Data Meets Scientific Research Exception to Copyright Infringement

IP Watchdog

In a landmark judgment with far reaching ramifications, a German court recently held that the copying of images by Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION) - a nonprofit organization that provides datasets, tools and models to liberate machine learning research – did not infringe copyright law. The Kneschke v.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

IICF Makes Mid-year Push for Contributions Aiming to Surpass $50 Million Goal Marking 30 years of Community Impact across the US and UK

Insurance Journal

LOS ANGELES – August 21, 2024 – The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping communities and enriching lives, is making a mid-year fundraising push as it strives to surpass its goal of $50 million in …

article thumbnail

CIPU Report Identifies Key Criteria Driving Strong Entrepreneurship & Innovation Programs at U.S. Universities

IP Watchdog

The nonprofit organization found that E&I programs at U.S. The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) has released a report that gauges the level of intellectual property (IP) engagement at the largest U.S. university entrepreneurship and innovation (E&I) programs.

article thumbnail

Celtics’ Jaylen Brown Aims to Revive Black Wall Street in Boston – Bloomberg

Securities Docket

Brown, 27, is launching Boston XChange, a nonprofit organization that plans to build generational wealth and cultural innovation in Black and Brown communities. Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown is beginning his bid to recreate Black Wall Street in Boston.

article thumbnail

The Horrible and the Miserable: The Challenge to Keep Marketing

Attorney at Work

Consider volunteering your services to a nonprofit organization or another lawyer (someone horrible?) Can you see opportunities involving climate change? If you choose multiple practice areas, make sure they are complementary. Don’t stretch yourself too thin. to learn the practical side of a practice area.

article thumbnail

Q&A With Michelle Banks: A Pioneering Personality

Attorney at Work

JD , a nonprofit organization dedicated to the success of women in law school and the legal profession. Read more about Michelle and 22 other inspiring stories from accomplished women lawyers in Women in Law: Discovering the True Meaning of Success available on Amazon. Proceeds go to Ms.