Getty Images Monday filed a complaint against Stability AI, an open artificial intelligence platform, for allegedly misusing the stock photo company’s images without its permission. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, states that Stability AI copied more than 12 million images from Getty Images’ collection, including its captions [...]

The UK Supreme Court Wednesday rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of the implementation and operation of the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol. These proceedings challenge the lawfulness of the Northern Ireland Protocol, which formed part of the agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union regarding the UK’s exit from the EU. The protocol [...]

Ecuadorians Sunday voted in local elections and a referendum containing a number of measures aimed at reforming Ecuador’s constitution. As of Monday night, all eight referendum measures have been defeated. President Guillermo Lasso proposed the referendum in September 2022. The referendum included eight measures to which the voters could cast either a “yes” or “no” [...]

The national security trial of the 47 pro-democracy activists commenced in the Hong Kong High Court Monday, two years since their arrest in 2021. Amongst them, 16 defendants denied the charges. Five of the defendants–Au Nok-hin, Benny Tai Yiu-ting, Andrew Chiu Ka-yin, Ben Chung Kam-lun and Gordon Ng–are accused of being the organizers of an [...]

The town of Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory has faced unprecedented levels of crime in recent years. Alcohol-related crimes have increased by 55 percent in the town since 2020, and as a result, alcohol restrictions have now been introduced in Alice Springs. Concerns have arisen, however, due to the stereotyping of the large indigenous [...]

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. On Monday, five new judges of the Supreme Court of India were sworn in at a ceremony held in New Delhi. The event was attended by [...]

The Chinese balloon that floated over US airspace last week before being shot down by a US military jet Saturday has raised questions of international law on both the US and Chinese sides. The US claims that the balloon was a spy balloon, while China maintains that it was a civilian scientific research balloon that [...]

The Australian Greens party Monday introduced a bill to parliament asking the government to take in 150 refugees living in Nauru and Papua New Guinea (PNG), who have been there for a decade seeking asylum in Australia. “After ten long years of offshore detention it is abhorrent that about 150 people remain exiled in PNG [...]

Political prisoners in Iran Sunday expressed support for constitutional change proposed by political opposition figure and former Iranian Prime Minister Mir Houssein Mousavi. In a statement, seven imprisoned political figures, including reformist politician Mostafa Tajzadeh and Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, stated that they “will do their best to advance [...]

A UN peacekeeper Sunday was killed and another injured after their helicopter came under fire in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The peacekeepers were part of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), which has been operating in the region since 2010 under a mandate [...]