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  1. The Copyright Claims Board recently ruled on a case involving two hobo snails. It's a silly case that features a lot of bad feelings and tough questions.

    plagiarismtoday.com/2026/03/10

    #Copyright #Art #USCopyrightOffice #CCB

  2. News Summary: Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to Anthropic Settlement Covering 482,000 Books

    As promised, here is an update on yesterday’s hearing in the Anthropic case. This is very much breaking and emerging news.
    selfpublishingadvice.org/news-

    #Anthropicsettlement #classactionlawsuit #rightsholders #USCopyrightOffice

  3. Ars Technica: In a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no leader. “In May, Copyright Register Shira Perlmutter was abruptly fired by email by the White House’s deputy director of personnel. Perlmutter is now suing the Trump administration, alleging that her firing was invalid; the government maintains that the executive branch has the authority to dismiss her. As the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/06/ars-technica-in-a-wild-time-for-copyright-law-the-us-copyright-office-has-no-leader/

  4. European Publishers Council stays true to the tired old trope about “copyright theft”

    A few weeks ago Walled Culture explored how the leaders in the generative AI world are trying to influence the future legal norms for this field. In the face of a powerful new form of an old technology – AI itself has been around for over 50 years – those are certainly needed. Governments around the world know this too: they are grappling with the new issues that large language models […]

    #adtech #advertising #artificialIntelligence #bbc #bots #contextualAdvertising #eu #euipo #europeanPublishersCouncil #factChecking #genai #generativeAi #guardian #journalism #licensing #llms #searchEngines #slogan #training #uk #usCopyrightOffice

    walledculture.org/european-pub

  5. Authors Guild Petitions to Reinstate U.S. Copyright Chief; European Creators Demand AI Transparency: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

    It is a week of petitions in the books world. With thanks to Porter Anderson over at Publishing Perspectives for drawing attention to this. Both of them touch on copyright. They may or may not also…
    selfpublishingadvice.org/petit

    #AItransparency #AuthorsGuild #copyrightpetitions #Europeancreators #USCopyrightOffice
    @indieauthors

  6. Leaders in the generative AI world are daring to say the unsayable: that copyright is not sacrosanct

    For the last hundred years or so, the prevailing dogma has been that copyright is an unalloyed good, and that more of it is better. Whether that was ever true is one question, but it is certainly not the case since we entered the digital era, for reasons explained at length in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available). Despite that fact, recent attempts to halt the constant […]

    #aiActionPlan #Amazon #china #deezer #elonMusk #exceptions #fairUse #google #jackDorsey #lobbyists #musicStreaming #openai #patents #stockImageLibraries #tdm #trademarks #US #usCopyrightOffice

    walledculture.org/leaders-in-t

  7. How an “absolutist position” seeks to block even minor copyright exemptions, and usually succeeds

    The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed in the US in 1998, at an early stage of the shift to a digital world, with little concern for the serious harm it would cause as everything became suffused with software. The problem is that the DMCA prevents circumvention of copyright protection measures (generally known as “digital rights management”, or DRM), even if the purpose of […]

    #absolutistPosition #circumvention #dmca #DRM #esa #exemptions #iceCream #ifixit #mcdonalds #publicKnowledge #rightToRepair #section1201 #usCopyrightOffice #videoGames

    walledculture.org/how-an-absol

  8. Internet Archive: new copyright laws for generative AI would “further entrench” market leaders

    The current excitement over artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, has now reached the stage where governments feel they need to do something about it in terms of regulations. The EU’s AI Act was drawn up before generative AI took off, but is now being retro-fitted with bad ideas to take account of recent developments. Meanwhile, across the …

    #AccessToCulture #AccessToKnowledge #ai #BrewsterKahle #competition #generativeAi #InternetArchive #licensing #privacy #study #usCopyrightOffice

    https://walledculture.org/internet-archive-new-copyright-laws-for-generative-ai-would-further-entrench-market-leaders/

  9. US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art - Enlarge / The winning entry, Théåtre D'opéra Spatial, from the Colorado... - arstechnica.com/?p=1966933 #uscopyrightoffice #machinelearning #imagesynthesis #kriskashtanova #stephenthaler #aicopyright #jasonallen #midjourney #biz#aiart #tech #ai

  10. The US Copyright Office has announced a new public comment period on the subject of AI and copyright. Here's how to participate.

    plagiarismtoday.com/2023/08/31

    #Copyright #AI #USCopyrightOffice #USCO