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,…
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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 18, 2025
This week, a verdict was reached in the Google monopoly trial. Mark Zuckerberg testified in the Meta antitrust trial. And, a post from the prior week by Professor Goldman (which I read this week, hence its inclusion) about the copyright liability of Roblox for including a song within a game element. Google Antitrust Verdict Zuckerberg…
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 February 21, 2025
This week, Meta claimed (in a filing to support its motion to dismiss the copyright claims over using the torrented files to train their AI) that its not copyright infringement if the torrented files are not further seeded. Good luck with that claim, Meta. There has also been more discussion of whether the new DOGE…
Links for Week of February 14, 2025
This week, I liked Professor Guadamuz’s recap of the current state of AI and copyright ownership. There have been more developments in the new DOGE department’s access to data, including three lawsuits. Finally, there has been some good commentary on the Thomson Reuters v Ross copyright case over the copyrightability of the Westlaw Headnotes system….
Links for Week of February 7, 2025
Here’s a scary one – certain apps that had been approved to be on the Apple and Google Play app stores were found to have malware that used OCR on the device’s photo library to look for stored crypto passwords. New allegations were made that Meta torrented 81.7 terrabytes of pirated content to train its…