Policy

In August, there were many developments in the courts with copyright cases, including settlements in two AI lawsuits. There were many more significant copyright-related events in August. Here is a […]

If “It’s a Wonderful Life” were remade today, they might have to change the iconic phrase from “every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings” to “every time […]

The first half of 2025 saw major developments in some of the dozens of ongoing copyright lawsuits against AI companies, as well as the filing of a few new high-profile […]

Analogizing AI processes to human processes may be helpful as a simplistic way to explain how certain aspects of AI work. However, relying on these analogies as a substitute for […]

After being dormant for much of the year, Congress was very busy on copyright issues in July—introducing copyright-related legislation and holding a hearing on AI and copyright piracy issues. There […]

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) technologies are improving and providing more generative capabilities at a rapid pace. Their continued development will depend on the viability of burgeoning markets in which copyright […]

In late June, summary judgment orders were issued in two Northern District of California cases—Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta—that sent shockwaves through the copyright and AI communities. In […]

Interregnum: A disruption of the regular order, esp. of government The U.S. Copyright Office is sometimes described as a “hybrid” entity. As a department of the Library of Congress it […]

On July 16, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism held a hearing titled Too Big to Prosecute?: Examining the AI Industry’s Mass Ingestion of Copyrighted Works for […]

In June, courts were extremely busy with AI and copyright activities. Two judges issued mixed-bag decisions in AI copyright cases squarely addressing the issue of whether the unlicensed use of […]