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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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Abbott, a physician as well as a lawyer, is a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey’s School of Law. He also is an adjunct assistant professor at the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and he wrote The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law. Charles, Mo.

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Summary of decisions from Durban climate conference

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Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. The most vulnerable are to receive better protection against loss and damage caused by extreme weather events related to climate change. as possible, but not later than 2015. Technology.

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Volkswagen of America temporarily withdraws application for US certification of MY 2016 vehicles; AECDs

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The AECD to which Horn refers is distinct from the hidden software “defeat device” in the four-cylinder diesels from model years 2009-2015 that could recognize whether a vehicle was being operated in a test laboratory or on the road. These events are deeply troubling. Earlier post.). —Prepared testimony of Michael Horn.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% “ We are not aiming to let anyone off the hook.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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In contrast, project developers determine offset emission data by comparing the expected reduced, avoided, or sequestered GHG emissions against a projected, business-as-usual scenario (sometimes referred to as a counter-factual scenario). REFERENCES.

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Ethanol Groups File Suit Challenging Constitutionality of California Low Carbon Fuel Standard

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The OAL ensures that agency regulations are clear, necessary, legally valid, and available to the public. Dinneen said that ARB effectively guessed at what this value should be because there was no good empirical data or reference to guide the agency’s use of this elasticity. gCO 2 e/MJ). Treatment of Ethanol Co-Products in Analysis.

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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

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Aside from a few brief remarks later, we leave it lawyers to reflect on how such materials might be treated in full legal context. legal questions (would these outputs count as copyright infringement?), Some of this may come out in legal discovery, of course.) We suspect that at least some has not been licensed.

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