On August 8, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued an opinion partially granting an earned wage access (EWA) provider’s motion to dismiss that challenged whether the company operated as an unlicensed lender in violation of the Maryland Consumer Loan Law (MCLL), charged unlawful fees, and failed to comply with disclosure obligations... Continue Reading|
On August 15, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation proposed regulations to implement recent amendments to the Residential Mortgage License Act of 1987 (RMLA) covering “shared appreciation agreements.” The proposed revisions treat these agreements as residential mortgage loans subject to RMLA licensing and compliance requirements. A shared appreciation mortgage is when the borrower... Continue Reading|
Video game publisher confirms several licensing deals and renewals. The post EA Sports signs up as official England partner ahead of EA FC 26 launch appeared first on SportsPro.| SportsPro
The wave of state enforcement actions against cannabis testing labs hit Michigan this week with the Cannabis Regulatory Agency ordering the shutdown of Viridis Laboratories.| CRB Monitor News
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22 Aug 25 The Mayor of Salford has praised tough housing enforcement after rogue landlords were handed £2.2 million in fines. According to the Manchester Evening News, the penalties were issued as part of a major enforcement crackdown targeting poor standards in the private rented sector. The news comes after Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham launched […]| Landlord Licensing & Defence
31 Jul 25 Some councils have such poor enforcement of rules on private rentals that just one officer has to monitor 25,000 properties. That’s the claim from think tank the New Economics Foundation, which says that by contrast the better-resourced councils have one officer overseeing just 250 properties. The NEF says the lack of staff […]| Landlord Licensing & Defence
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the dormant commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution applies to cannabis, despite the plant's federally illegal status.| CRB Monitor News
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) requires shared mailboxes to be licensed but doesn't extend the same requirement to Microsoft 365 Groups. Given that Microsoft 365 Groups have group mailboxes and can function very much like shared mailboxes, the difference in licensing is remarkable. Why does this happen? It could be due to internal Microsoft politics, omissions, or just a preference for Groups. Who knows?| Office 365 for IT Pros
The night of Aug. 12, approximately 19,000 cannabis product samples tested by Greenleaf Labs had their testing status changed from passed to failed in Oklahoma’s track-and-trace system, the state’s Medical Marijuana Authority told dispensaries. Authorities suspended Poteau, Okla.-based Greenleaf Labs on an emergency basis following a routine inspection from July 28 through July 31. During […] The post OMMA Suspends Greenleaf Labs’ License appeared first on CRB Monitor News.| CRB Monitor News
New York’s Cannabis Control Board approved a new rule that would allow legacy growers who launched the adult-use market to convert to mixed-light or indoor grows after being previously restricted to outdoors. New York’s established hemp farmers were given the first shot at growing for the adult-use market launch. Because they were already established farmers, […] The post NY Will Allow Outdoor Growers to Come Inside appeared first on CRB Monitor News.| CRB Monitor News
By Stuart Otway, Principal Officer in Natural England’s Complex Cases Team and Delphine Pouget, Principal Officer in Natural England’s Species Recovery & Reintroductions Team In February 2025 Defra published its landmark policy on the wild release and management of beavers …| Natural England
After being asked whether licenses are needed to include shared mailboxes in Microsoft 365 retention policies, I investigated and found that licenses are not. This led to a consideration of the steps needed to create a special retention policy for shared mailboxes (with PowerShell, naturally) and how to avoid retention setting collisions with other policies. All explained in detail here.| Office 365 for IT Pros
Herbal Alternatives II appears to be no more, after its owner pleaded guilty to tax evasion and transferred their license to another entity before fending off a cease-and-desist order from the Washington, D.C., government. Jennifer Brunenkant on May 13 admitted to not paying taxes from 2017 to 2021 and then attempting to further evade those […] The post D.C. Operator Pleads Guilty to $1.2M Tax Evasion appeared first on CRB Monitor News.| CRB Monitor News
Regulators in Missouri stripped C&C Manufacturing of its cannabis manufacturer’s license on July 17, following a massive product recall last summer.| CRB Monitor News
Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division is warning licensed businesses to not work with four individuals who had their licenses revoked.| CRB Monitor News
Kentucky’s first licensed medical cannabis cultivator is open for business, despite continued pushback over how the state conducted its licensing lotteries last fall.| CRB Monitor News
Today is an exciting day for reproducibility in computational sciences. Continuous analysis awakens with its publication in Nature Biotechnology. Continuous analysis is a method for automatically re-executing a study whenever its source code is updated. Any changes resulting from the update are tracked and visible. Once properly configured, continuous analysis makes a computational study fully reproducible at every state throughout its history. It works by combining two technologies. First, ...| Satoshi Village
Jordan Anaya of Omnes Res — creator of the PrePubMed search engine for biomedical preprints — recently comparedbioRxiv to PeerJ Preprints. We agree that PeerJ offers the better technology and user experience. However, bioRxiv has greater adoption in the biodata sciences. In fact, since my last blog post on preprints at the beginning of 2016, bioRxiv has grown by 149% from 2,785 to 6,933 preprints. The growth has been fueled largely by the efforts …| Satoshi Village
At Ignite 2024, Microsoft said that Copilot for Microsoft 365 tenants would benefit from SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM). What does that mean? Well, it doesn’t mean that Copilot tenants get SAM licenses, which is what many expect. It does mean that SAM checks for Copilot before it lets tenants use some, but not all, of its features. Read on…| Office 365 for IT Pros
Verge3D 4.10 for Maya introduces support for transparency in Surface Shader, new demo, macOS installer, and unique object ids. The post Verge3D 4.10 for Maya and Ultimate appeared first on Soft8Soft.| Soft8Soft
Verge3D 4.10 for 3ds Max brings 360° panoramas, new demo apps, puzzle to reuse animation, unique object ids, and the CSS 3D renderer. The post Verge3D 4.10 for 3ds Max Released appeared first on Soft8Soft.| Soft8Soft
Verge3D 4.10 for Blender brings Factory Tour demo, macOS installer, puzzle to reuse animation, unique object ids, and Blender 4.5 support.| Soft8Soft
The first quarter of 2025 marked a period of stabilization in the U.S. cannabis licensing market, following years of contraction and volatility.| CRB Monitor News
In May 2025, Connecticut’s legislature passed landmark legislation to address restrictive ebook licensing practices that limit libraries’ ability to serve the public. It aims to ensure ebook licens…| Authors Alliance
The NWS gas project, offshore Western Australia, has controversially been given a green light for extension from new PM Albanese. The post Australian PM Albanese under fire on NWS extension approval appeared first on Gas Outlook.| Gas Outlook
Minnesota selected 249 prospective adult-use cannabis license winners during its first license lottery on June 5.| CRB Monitor News
The Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) said it will likely have to limit possible approvals for applicants who have already been waiting about a year-and-a-half for review.| CRB Monitor News
An explanation for the new release of Java, version 17 and Oracle’s new No-Fee Terms and Conditions license for these new Java versions.| House of Brick
A Montgomery County judge officially ended the Alabama’s third attempt to issue licenses and launch the state’s medical cannabis market.| CRB Monitor News
CLion, a JetBrains IDE, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.| The JetBrains Blog
Missouri has once again eliminated a portion of the social equity microbusiness licenses it selected during last summer’s lottery due to ownership concerns.| CRB Monitor News
Rhode Island could potentially be less than a month away from finally accepting applications for 24 cannabis retail licenses.| CRB Monitor News
Aspiring cannabis operators in Delaware wait on the state’s Senate to pass a bill that could correct an impasse with the FBI over background checks.| CRB Monitor News
Technically, medical use of cannabis is currently legal in the state of Nebraska. Under Measure 437, an adult can obtain a written recommendation from a doctor.| CRB Monitor News
Preamble: this is an intentionally incendiary post, you could even define it as trolling. I have been thinking…| Flameeyes's Weblog
At the Monki Gras conference in London last week, Madelyn Olson, who created the Valkey project which forked […]| DEVCLASS
Microbusinesses could be king in Minnesota, as over 1,000 applications were submitted for the uncapped license type.| CRB Monitor News
New York’s Cannabis Control Board unanimously voted to grant provisional license holders six more months to secure property.| CRB Monitor News
Massachusetts cannabis regulators extended the period in which social equity candidates can exclusively hold delivery and courier licenses.| CRB Monitor News
Alabama may finally move forward with cannabis business licensing after an appellate court lifted a year-long restraining order.| CRB Monitor News
With less than a month before the target April 1 adult-use market launch, lottery winners are still waiting for their licenses.| CRB Monitor News
A consultant may decide who gets licenses under a bill that aims to move Alabama’s languishing medical cannabis program out of the courts.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
A mini-guide to the Manual of Style for Contract Drafting for outside counsel: what I recommend first-timers read, skim, and skip.… Continue reading The brief guide to MSCD 5→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
WebStorm and Rider, JetBrains IDEs, are now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.| The JetBrains Blog
An analysis of the inconsistencies in UK museums’ copyright claims over digital reproductions of public domain works Introduction In our online, globally connected era, cultural institutions are vital custodians of history and culture, preserving and making accessible millions of digitised artworks, manuscripts, and objects. Yet in the United Kingdom, a complex and inconsistent approach to… Continue reading Anarchy in the UK| Douglas McCarthy
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Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Recent enhancements to the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System have introduced a new login process for NMLS users, including state-licensed and| ABA Banking Journal
Today’s topic is a frequently asked question about home inspections in Minnesota. In short, no. Home inspectors do not need to be licensed in Minnesota. Those cheeseheads in Wisconsin require licensing, but we don’t. It has always been this way in Minnesota, and I hope it stays this way. Yep, you heard me right. I’m […]| Structure Tech Home Inspections
I'm from New York and got a NY DL. I'm staying 2 years in Germany, for a job opportunity. I already checked, that I have 6 month to get a German License, before my NY one isn't valid there anymore....| Law Stack Exchange
Furnishing fabric ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (detail) of roller-printed cotton chintz, designed by C. F. A. Voysey for Morton Sundour Fabric Ltd., Great Britain, ca. 1920. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.The choices that museums make about copyright and licensing as they digitise their collections have profound implications for public access. In an era where digital technologies are opening up heritage like never before, are some of our cultural institutions becoming gatekeepers? | Douglas McCarthy
Reading Time: 2minutes Last year, Microsoft introduced Microsoft Fabric, a unified SaaS platform that combines under one umbrella the best of Microsoft Power BI, various Azure PaaS offerings, and a host of new experiences related to data science, real-time analytics, and more. Fabric... The post Transition from Power BI Premium P SKU to Fabric F SKU: Impact of Enterprise Agreement (EA) Timeline appeared first on DataVeld.| DataVeld
René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy, 1850, by Hippolyte Jean Flandrin (French, 1809–1864)| Douglas McCarthy
Recently I noticed a new tool called licenserecon written by Peter Blackman, and I helped get licenserecon into Debian. The purpose of licenserecon is to reconcile licenses from debian/copyright against the output from licensecheck, a tool written by Jonas Smedegaard. Continue reading Validating debian/copyright: licenserecon→| Simon Josefsson's blog
A new US non-profit organization called the Ladybird Browser Initiative has been set up to develop the Ladybird […]| DEVCLASS
Oracle has updated its licensing policy for core technology software in "Authorized Cloud Environments" like AWS, Azure, and now GCP. The June 12, 2024 update clarifies GCP's inclusion, aiding customers using Oracle software on this platform. This document offers an alternative licensing method using vCPU metrics, essential for compliance and cost management in cloud environments. Key points include the document's non-contractual nature and the exclusion of the core factor table. Staying info...| House of Brick
Explore essential strategies and insights on navigating Oracle Java licensing in 2024. Learn how to mitigate risks and manage compliance with our detailed guide, ensuring your business is prepared for Oracle's aggressive licensing policies.| House of Brick
Author’s remix of The Battle of the Pictures, 1745. William Hogarth (1697-1764), Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0Is it possible for the same digitised public domain work by the same artist to be considered both in and out of copyright by different museums within the same legal jurisdiction? The answer is yes.| Douglas McCarthy
We explore Oracle database licensing considerations and challenges before starting a Oracle database migration to AWS.| House of Brick
Oracle’s new and well-published fee structure for Java is now in full force. It represents the fourth fee structure change in four years. Under the new schedule, companies using Java could pay 2-5 times more to continue using it. This begs a particularly important question: is the new fee structure pricing companies out? A January piece from Forbes Council’s Member Scott Sellers suggests that this is a very real possibility. Sellers notes that 98% of all businesses use Java for […] The ...| Miro Consulting
An IBM audit is inevitable for any organization that uses the company’s software. IBM audits customers every three to four years like clockwork. Here’s the thing: being found out of compliance could get very expensive rather quickly. It pays to be proactive about internal IBM audit defense and license management to guarantee your company is fully in compliance when that next audit comes. Every IBM audit begins with a letter “invoking IBM’s right to audit, which is detailed in the […...| Miro Consulting
Managing software licenses in a business setting can be a bit challenging. Some software packages are more complicated than others. Take Salesforce. It has some of the most complex licensing in business. For that reason alone, our Salesforce license management services could prove invaluable to your company.| Miro Consulting
On January 23, 2023, Oracle quietly announced their new licensing metric for Java, the Employee for Java SE Universal Subscription metric. Since then, Oracle has done two (2) things; possibly three (3): Oracle no longer offers the older metrics of Processor (servers, with the core-factor applied) and Named User Plus (workstations). Even if you had originally licensed the older metrics (beginning in April 2019 and ending just prior to the adoption of the new metric), once that term ran its [...| Miro Consulting
Like most others in the software development business, Microsoft does not sell its products. Rather, it licenses them. Ensuring that customers maintain compliance with licensing agreements is the motivation behind conducting regular audits. Rest assured that a Microsoft license audit is not something to take lightly. Microsoft audits are par for the course at Miro Consulting. Given that Microsoft is the most common software brand utilized by organizations worldwide, we make it our business to...| Miro Consulting
Microsoft has done an abrupt about face by making Copilot, its generative AI tool, available to just about everyone who uses Microsoft 365. However, Copilot is not free. Anyone wishing to access it in Microsoft 365 – whether for professional or personal use – must pay for a license. Here is the question: is licensing Copilot worth the cost?| Miro Consulting
It’s official! Oracle has extended Solaris 11.4 support until 2037.| Miro Consulting
Windows Server 2025 will be generally available “in late 2024”. This release has the same ten (10) year support cycle as previous Windows Server releases.| Miro Consulting
Delve into the intricacies of Oracle software licensing in AWS versus on-premises setups. Learn about Oracle's cloud licensing policy and explore a cost-effective alternative to vCPU counting. Compare the licensing implications of shared EC2 instances to dedicated hosts on AWS, uncovering potential savings in Oracle software costs. Benefit from House of Brick's expertise in optimizing architecture and managing Oracle licensing challenges.| House of Brick
House of Brick services will provide a substantial ROI to offset any VMware price increases resulting from the upcoming Broadcom acquisition.| House of Brick
A Snapshot of Occupational Licensing in Kansas Edward Timmons1, Conor Norris1, and Noah Trudeau1,2 1: Knee Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation, West Virginia University […]| CSORWVU
Author’s remix of detail of Four judges in heavy wigs, 1758. Etching by William Hogarth. Source: Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark.Late last November at the Court of Appeal in London, Lord Justice Arnold made a significant ruling on copyright and the threshold of originality in UK law, in the case THJ v Sheridan1. Although the case concerned the copyright protection of graphical user interfaces (GUIs), its impact is likely to be felt in other categories. This post examines the implica...| Douglas McCarthy
What does the Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition tell us about museums, copyright and digital collections today? Vermeer is a major exhibition of the artist’s work at the Rijksmuseum that brings Vermeers from around the world to Amsterdam. A total of twenty eight works, from fourteen institutions, feature in the exhibition. These are helpfully itemised on… Continue reading 28 Vermeers The post 28 Vermeers appeared first on Douglas McCarthy.| Douglas McCarthy
Fresh insight, important updates and new visualisations into the global picture of open access to cultural heritage| Douglas McCarthy
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Element is switching to use the Affero General Public License (AGPLv3) for its future contributions to Synapse and related backend Matrix projects.| Element Blog
Much angst (and discussion ink) is wasted in open source over whether pulling in code from one project with a different licence into another is allowable based on the compatibility of the two licences. I call this problem self defeating because it creates sequestered islands of incompatibly licensed but otherwise fully open source code that can never ever meet in combination. Everyone from the most permissive open source person to the most ardent free software one would agree this is a probl...| James Bottomley's random Pages
Welcome news last week out of Oregon, where the state Supreme Court unanimously “approved in concept” two alternative pathways to lawyer licensure that don’t involve writing the bar exam. The potential new routes to bar admission were proposed in the July 2021 report of the Oregon State Board of Bar Examiners’ Alternatives to the Bar […]| Law21
Think about these two questions for a moment: 1. What would you want to know about a person before agreeing they should be allowed to become a lawyer? 2. What would you want to know about a person before agreeing they should be allowed to remain a lawyer? How would you answer them? These are […]| Law21
I was happy to contribute an article to the latest issue of leading European legal industry magazine Legal Innovation and Technology Today. You should read the entire issue, which includes great pieces about DEI in the legal sector by Christy Burke, agile law firms by Chris Bull, and key corporate legal trends by Ari Kaplan. […]| Law21
Element has chosen to pursue future development of Synapse, Dendrite and associated server-side projects under the terms of AGPLv3.| Element Blog
The decision of LightBend to end the open source status of Akka was in retrospect more probable than not given the available evidence.| Meshed Insights Ltd
