This week, there were two nice guest posts on Professor Goldman’s blog, one on the New York Times v. Microsoft/Open AI copyright ruling by Kieran McCarthy, and one on the Take It Down Act by Professor Jess Miers. Finally, we heard that Anthropic’s CEO is against the 10-year freeze on state AI laws currently within…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Links for Week of May 30, 2025
This week, I liked Tori Noble, Mitch Stoltz, and Corynne McSherry’s article at Techdirt analyzing the Copyright Office’s recent guidance on fair use and AI. The FTC’s monopoly trial against Meta ended this week, with a ruling expected by the end of the year. Finally, Getty Images reported that it is too expensive to pursue…
Links for Week of May 23, 2025
This week, the Take It Down Act was passed. While the goal is a good one, getting rid of deepfake porn, there is significant criticism of the aggressive 48 hour timeline it requires which could lead to more censorship rather than a review on the merits. I’ve been following the Character.AI chatbot lawsuit filed by…
Links for Week of May 16, 2025
This week, there were significant developments at the Copyright Office. Last Thursday, the head of the Library of Congress (which oversees the Copyright Office) was let go. Late Friday, the Copyright Office released a “pre-publication version” of the third stage of their AI report, discussing whether training an AI model is fair use. On Saturday,…
Links for Week of May 9, 2025
This week, the Trump administration announced that it was rolling back the AI chip export restrictions that had been in place since the Biden administration. Crumbl is the defendant in a massive copyright infringement suit over music used in social media posts. Finally, NSO was ordered to pay $167 million for its hack of WhatsApp…
Links for Week of May 2, 2025
This week, Apple is facing potential criminal contempt in their dispute with Epic over the app store. Another lawyer filed a brief with errors attributable to AI hallucinations. Yes, it’s still happening. Finally, don’t file documents with the court that have a dragon logo watermarked on every page. Also, here’s a link to my most…
Links for Week of April 11, 2025
This week, it looks like the Take It Down Act is getting closer to passage. Glyn Moody at Techdirt posted a nice look at Agentic AI and how it may affect copyright. Finally, I liked Ashley Belanger’s post with an update on the copyright case between the New York Times and OpenAI. Take It Down…
Links for Week of March 21, 2025
This week, the Trump administration fired both of the Democrats remaining on the FTC in apparent violation of Supreme Court precedent. Challenges to that are underway apparently. A decision came down in the Thaler copyright dispute over AI involvement in the creative process. Finally, there was ongoing discussion this week about the Trump administration’s AI…
Links for Week of March 14, 2025
Next week, I’m speaking to the Advocates Society on “Copyright in 2025: AI and Beyond.” To learn more or to register for the March 20th event, visit LINK. This week, OpenAI posted public comments on the Trump administration’s AI plan. Further, as a Bob Dylan fan I enjoyed the headline on Ars Technica’s article discussing…
Links for Week of March 7, 2025
This week, the EFF introduced a new open source tool to help detect cellular spying. There has been more discussion recently about the “Take It Down Act.” Finally, Professor Guadamuz had a nice article which came out last week, but I read this week, about how AIs are changing the future of student assessments. EFF…