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If you’re following the AI copyright wars (and readers of this blog surely are), you may have run across a recent study purporting to show the impact of authors using AI on the market for self-published books. The title says it all: “Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books.” The study’s authors, Tuhin…
If I could convince every policymaker of one essential principle, it would be that what’s good for the biggest content industry businesses is not always good for creative workers or the public. In fact, in many cases these business interests are in direct conflict with creative workers. The latest example comes from “stealth bot prohibition”…
Aggressive EU-style site-blocking legislation is being pitched to U.S. policymakers as a “simple fix” for digital piracy, but it is no such thing. A recent report from the Centre for European Policy Studies, a peer-reviewed study, “90th Minute: A First Look to Collateral Damages and Efficacy of the Italian Piracy Shield,” and research from the…
Nearly 15 years ago, advocates for internet site-blocking suffered a humiliating defeat in the SOPA/PIPA battle, when the entire internet rose up to reject censoring the web. SOPA opponents understood that forcing ISPs to block accused pirate websites would inevitably lead to blocking innocent sites. When constituent calls melted the phone lines on Capitol Hill,…
In a one-line order that was expressly “not a ruling on the merits” of the case, the Supreme Court sided with Shira Perlmutter, current Register of Copyrights, on the narrow question of whether she could keep her job pending resolution of her lawsuit against Todd Blanche over the President’s attempt to fire her. But the…
The CREATOR Act, which would mint an unprecedented IP right in artistic “style,” is not a serious bill, legally or politically, at least not yet. It is plainly unconstitutional and was introduced too late to go anywhere this Congress. It appears to be part of a years-long attempt by Adobe (who first proposed the bill…
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