This week, I liked Corynne McSherry and Katharine Trendacosta’s article on the NO FAKES Act. Professor Goldman issued a post about the Supreme Court’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. Finally, Cloudflare announced this week that it will begin charging AI crawlers. Posting will be light for the next two weeks due to external…
Category: Internet Governance
Links for Week of June 27, 2025
This week, Anthropic’s use of copyrighted works to train its Claude AI model was ruled a fair use. Further, the court documents revealed that they destroyed millions of books to do so. In another fair use case, this time with Meta, Llama’s use of copyrighted works was adjudged to be fair use. However, it may…
Links for Week of June 20, 2025
This week, President Trump extended the TikTok ban again, for the third time, despite not providing any legal justification for such an extension. Marty Schwimmer blogged about a Northern District of Illinois Judge who is reassessing all of his Schedule-A cases. Finally, a look at the Trump Administration’s recent executive order which dismantles many of…
Links for Week of June 13, 2025
This week, I liked Cathy Gellis’ post on Techdirt about copyright law and characters. Last week, the Supreme Court allowed DOGE to access Social Security Administration records. Finally, Disney and NBC Universal sued Midjourney for copyright infringement. Copyright Law and Characters Supreme Court and DOGE Disney and NBC Universal Sue Midjourney
Links for Week of June 6, 2025
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…
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 April 25, 2025
This week, I liked the article by Geoff Huston giving the background on the current Internet Governance regime. Professor Goldman had a nice post about a recent 9th Circuit decision that turns our normal conceptions of internet jurisdiction on their head. Finally, an update on the Google antitrust case as it heads into the remedy…
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 April 4, 2025
This week, Bruce Schneier had several good posts on phishing, data integrity, and security at border crossings. I’m enjoying ABA Techshow, and got to hear Cory Doctorow speak about the current state of the Internet. Border Crossing Security Phishing Can Happen to Anyone Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity