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 policy.
FTC Firings
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/trump-fires-both-ftc-democrats-in-challenge-to-supreme-court-precedent/
- https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/19/trump-illegally-purges-ftcs-democratic-commissioners-gutting-whats-left-of-agency-independence/
Thaler v. Perlmutter – Copyright and AI
- https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2025/03/23-5233.pdf
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/judge-disses-star-trek-icon-datas-poetry-while-ruling-ai-cant-author-works/
- https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/03/19/thaler-v-perlmutter-d-c-court-of-appeals-confirms-that-a-non-human-machine-cannot-be-an-author-under-the-u-s-copyright-act/
US AI Policy
- https://iapp.org/news/a/a-look-at-stakeholder-input-for-the-white-house-ai-action-plan
- https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2025/ai-regulations-tech-giants-and-hollywood-converge-on-white-house-ai-strategy/
- https://www.platformer.news/ai-action-plan-submissions-meta-google-openai-anthropic/