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…
Category: Copyright
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…
Links for Week of January 31, 2025
This week, my partner Roenan Patt wrote an article about a recent case discussing whether passwords can be treated like tangible property. RDAP is replacing WHOIS – do you know about it? Finally, the Copyright Office weighed in on whether revisions are needed to existing copyright law to deal with AI. They say no. Are…
Links for Week of January 10, 2025
This week, Professor Goldman posted his 2024 Internet Law Year in Review. Always a good read. As of January 1, 2025, some additional Mickey Mouse short films have entered the public domain, along with plenty of other company. Finally, Meta announced that it is ending its third party fact checking program. Internet Law Year In…
Links for Week of December 27, 2024
Happy Holidays! Be careful out there – scammers can hack Google Forms to send official looking emails from Google.com, so merely looking at just the domain of where the phishing email is coming from is not always enough. This person lost a lot of cryptocurrency. Techdirt had a nice post on the victory by the…
Links for Week of November 29, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving! Posts are lighter than usual this week due to the shorter working week. Still, I wanted to point out a few posts of note. Several posts discussed a recent Schedule A case where the Northern District appears to be looking closer at joinder. On CircleID, I liked Doug Dawson’s post about copyright liability…