https://www.europesays.com/3193493/ AI-Written Books on Amazon Squeeze Human Authors Out of the Market #AI #AiBook #AICompany #AiWrittenBook #argument #ArtificialIntelligence #evidence #FairUse #HumanAuthor #market #Model #NewContent #NewWork #original #researcher #ThingAnthropic #UsCopyrightOffice
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Legal Battle Over U.S. Copyright Chief Heats Up Again
The battle over the U.S. Copyright Office’s top official could hold major implications for the future of AI policy in the U.S, and thus the world.
The post Legal Battle Over U.S. Copyright Chief Heats Up Again appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/08/legal-battle-over-u-s-copyright-chief-heats-up-again/#AI #RegisterofCopyrights #ShiraPerlmutter #USCopyrightOffice
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#CopyrightOffice will increase photo registration cost by 55% in 120 days:https://zorz.it/LohBb
#JaronSchneider #AliciaCalzada #copyright #government #PhotoRegistration #NoticeOfProposedRulemaking #NPRM #USCopyrightOffice #law #NationalPressPhotographersAssociation
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Fender sends copyright threat to Yamaha, US Copyright Office to significantly raise rates and Skibidi Toilet studio prevails in ownership fight.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/07/15/3-count-fender-bender/
#Copyright #Fender #Yamaha #USCopyrightOffice #SkibidiToilet
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Copyright Office Will Increase Photo Registration Cost by 55% in 120 Days https://petapixel.com/2026/07/14/copyright-office-will-increase-photo-registration-cost-by-55-in-120-days/ #uscopyrightoffice #aliciacaldaza #government #copyright #letter #News #nppa #Law #law
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Artist sues #CopyrightOffice over its refusal to register his AI-enhanced photo: https://zorz.it/NymuY
#MattGrowcoot #ArtificialIntelligence #copyright #AICopyright #AIGenerated #AIImage #filter #USCopyright #USCopyrightOffice #VincentVanGogh #StarryNight #law #technology
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Artist Sues Copyright Office Over its Refusal to Register His AI-Enhanced Photo https://petapixel.com/2026/05/23/artist-sues-copyright-office-over-its-refusal-to-register-his-ai-enhanced-photo/ #uscopyrightoffice #vincentvangogh #aicopyright #aigenerated #uscopyright #Technology #copyright #aiimage #filter #News #Law
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#USCopyrightOffice wants to increase cost to register photos by 55%: https://zorz.it/gYKWv
#JaronSchneider #AliciaCalzada #copyright #government #law #letter #NPRM #MickeyOsterreicher #NPPA
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US Copyright Office Wants to Increase Cost to Register Photos by 55% https://petapixel.com/2026/05/05/us-copyright-office-wants-to-increase-cost-to-register-photos-by-55/ #mickeyosterreicher #uscopyrightoffice #aliciacaldaza #government #copyright #letter #News #nppa #Law #law
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U.S. Copyright Office wants to raise its fees. You may submit feedback via written comments by May 4, 2026.
Click on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (at right on linked page) to download pdf with information about the fees and instructions for commenting.
https://copyright.gov/rulemaking/feestudy2026/
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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.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/03/10/copyright-and-the-case-of-the-hobo-snails/
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@gwilymgj
> Attribution please"... the outputs of generative AI can be protected by copyright only where a human author has determined sufficient expressive elements. This can include situations where a human-authored work is perceptible in an AI output, or a human makes creative arrangements or modifications of the output, but not the mere provision of prompts."
#USCopyrightOffice, Jan 2025
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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.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/news-anthropic-settlement/#Anthropicsettlement #classactionlawsuit #rightsholders #USCopyrightOffice
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Appeals Court reinstates Register of Copyrights, pirate site shut down in Moldova and Canadian publishers clash with OpenAI.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/09/11/3-count-reinstatement/
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A federal appeals court has reinstated #ShiraPerlmutter as #USCopyrightOffice director after ruling Trump likely had NO authority to fire her. The decision protects #CongressionalIndependence and blocks #PresidentialOverreach tied to her #AIcopyrightreport. youtu.be/XtGncom4PD4?...
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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 […]
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Trump removes Copyright Office director, following earlier Librarian of Congress firing, raising questions on federal appointments. #USCopyrightOffice #Government #Meta
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fires-director-of-u-s-copyright-office-shira-perlmutter-sources/
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🚫🎶 In the grand tradition of bureaucracy, the US Copyright Office has decided leadership is overrated. Who needs a captain when the ship's already sinking? ⏳💼
https://www.wired.com/story/us-copyright-office-chaos-doge/ #CopyrightBureaucracy #LeadershipMatters #USCopyrightOffice #SinkingShip #CreativeControl #HackerNews #ngated -
No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office
https://www.wired.com/story/us-copyright-office-chaos-doge/
#HackerNews #NoOneInCharge #USCopyrightOffice #CopyrightChaos #WiredStory #CopyrightReform
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With the chaos at the United States Copyright Office, alarms have been raised about potential issues with its certificates.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/06/05/are-new-copyright-registrations-valid/
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Judge Declines To Immediately Block Trump’s Effort To Fire Register Of Copyrights
#News #Politics #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #LibraryofCongress #ShiraPerlmutter #USCopyrightOfficehttps://deadline.com/2025/05/trump-register-of-copyrights-shira-perlmutter-1236412633/
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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
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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…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/petitions/#AItransparency #AuthorsGuild #copyrightpetitions #Europeancreators #USCopyrightOffice
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Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn’t always fair use – Ars Technica
“Power grab”
Cops scuffle with Trump picks at Copyright Office after AI report stuns tech industry.
Ashley Belanger – May 12, 2025 12:37 PM |
A man holds a flag that reads “Shame” outside the Library of Congress on May 12, 2025 in Washington, DC. On May 8th, President Donald Trump fired Carla Hayden, the head of the Library of Congress, and Shira Perlmutter, the head of the US Copyright Office, just days after. Credit: Kayla Bartkowski / Staff | Getty Images NewsA day after the US Copyright Office dropped a bombshell pre-publication report challenging artificial intelligence firms’ argument that all AI training should be considered fair use, the Trump administration fired the head of the Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter—sparking speculation that the controversial report hastened her removal.
Tensions have apparently only escalated since. Now, as industry advocates decry the report as overstepping the office’s authority, social media posts on Monday described an apparent standoff at the Copyright Office between Capitol Police and men rumored to be with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
A source familiar with the matter told Wired that the men were actually “Brian Nieves, who claimed he was the new deputy librarian, and Paul Perkins, who said he was the new acting director of the Copyright Office, as well as acting Registrar,” but it remains “unclear whether the men accurately identified themselves.” A spokesperson for the Capitol Police told Wired that no one was escorted off the premises or denied entry to the office.
Perlmutter’s firing followed Donald Trump’s removal of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who, NPR noted, was the first African American to hold the post. Responding to public backlash, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that the firing was due to “quite concerning things that she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.”
Source Links: Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn’t always fair use – Ars Technica
#AITraining #ArsTechnica #FairUse #Fired #Head #Librarian #Trump #USCopyrightOffice
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Search Engine Journal: U.S. Copyright Office Cites Legal Risk At Every Stage Of Generative AI . “The United States Copyright Office released a pre-publication version of a report on the use of copyrighted materials for training generative AI, outlining a legal and factual case that identifies copyright risks at every stage of generative AI development.”
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"When Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden last week and Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter over the weekend, it was seen as another move driven by the tech wing of the Republican Party — especially in light of the Copyright Office releasing a pre-publication report saying some kinds of generative AI training would not be considered fair use. And when two men showed up at the Copyright Office inside the Library of Congress carrying letters purporting to appoint them to acting leadership positions, the DOGE takeover appeared to be complete.
But those two men, Paul Perkins and Brian Nieves, were not DOGE at all, but instead approved by the MAGA wing of the Trump coalition that aims to put tech companies in check.
Perkins, now the supposed acting Register of Copyrights, is an eight-year veteran of the DOJ who served in the first Trump administration prosecuting fraud cases. Nieves, the putative acting deputy librarian, is currently at the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, having previously been a lawyer on the House Judiciary Committee, where he worked with Rep. Jim Jordan on Big Tech investigations. And Todd Blanche, the putative Acting Librarian of Congress who would be their boss, is a staunch Trump ally who represented him during his 2024 Manhattan criminal trial, and is now the Deputy Attorney General overseeing the DOJ’s side in the Google Search remedies case. As one government affairs lobbyist told The Verge, Blanche is “there to stick it to tech.”"
https://www.theverge.com/politics/666179/maga-elon-musk-sacks-copyright-office-perlmutter
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"Two men claiming to be newly appointed Trump administration officials tried to enter the US Copyright Office in Washington, DC, on Monday, but left before gaining access to the building, sources tell WIRED. Their appearance comes days after the White House fired the director of the copyright office, Shira Perlmutter, who had held the job since 2020. Perlmutter was removed from her post on Saturday, one day after the agency released a report that raised concerns about the legality in certain cases of using copyrighted materials to train artificial intelligence.
A source familiar with the matter tells WIRED that the two men who tried to enter the Copyright Office showed security at the building a document stating that they had been appointed by the White House to new roles within the office. The source identified the men as Brian Nieves, who claimed he was the new deputy librarian, and Paul Perkins, who said he was the new acting director of the Copyright Office, as well as acting register.
After this article was published, the Department of Justice confirmed to WIRED that Nieves and Perkins had been appointed to lead the Copyright Office. Both are both currently high-ranking officials at the DOJ. The Justice Department declined to comment about whether the two officials attempted to enter the Copyright Office on Monday. The White House did not respond to a request for comment."
https://www.wired.com/story/us-copyright-office-trump-takeover/
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Trump Fires Top Copyright Official Days After Terminating Librarian of Congress https://petapixel.com/2025/05/12/trump-fires-top-copyright-official-days-after-terminating-librarian-of-congress/ #libraryofcongress #uscopyrightoffice #presidenttrump #copyright #politics #trump #News #Law #law
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Trump Fires Top Copyright Official Days After Terminating Librarian of Congress President Donald ...
https://petapixel.com/2025/05/12/trump-fires-top-copyright-official-days-after-terminating-librarian-of-congress/
#Law #News #copyright #law #libraryofcongress #politics #presidenttrump #trump #uscopyrightoffice
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US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/us_copyright_office_ai_copyright/
#HackerNews #USCopyrightOffice #AICopyright #Breach #FiredAI #CopyrightLaw
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Things are so crazy right now that I'm not even sure if this is a good or a bad thing to happen... :-D
"Morelle speculated that there was "surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk's efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models," in reference to the report released by the Copyright Office this week.
Last month, Musk took to his social media platform X to seemingly express support for the abolition of intellectual property laws. Musk also owns AI startup xAI, with which in February he submitted a failed bid to purchase OpenAI, the company that operates ChatGPT.
Mr. Trump has been a major proponent of AI. Immediately after taking office, he announced a joint venture involving OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle that will invest up to $500 billion in private sector money to build artificial intelligence infrastructure.
The U.S. Copyright Office, which has a staff of approximately 450 people, is a department of the Library of Congress. It is tasked with registering copyright claims, recording copyright ownership information and administering copyright law, among other things."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fires-director-of-u-s-copyright-office-shira-perlmutter-sources/
#USA #Trump #Copyright #USCopyrightOffice #AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #BigTech
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Mashable: U.S. Copyright Office has registered 1,000+ works enhanced by AI. “A January 2025 report from the Office stated that hundreds of AI-enhanced works had been registered, a spokesperson for the U.S. Copyright Office told Mashable. Now, we know that more than 1,000 such works have been registered.”
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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
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YouTube Apparently Unsure If Shakespeare Is In The Public Domain
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This is the First-Ever AI Image to Be Granted Copyright Protection https://petapixel.com/2025/02/12/this-is-the-first-ever-ai-image-to-be-granted-copyright-protection-a-slice-of-american-cheese/ #uscopyrightoffice #copyrightoffice #generativeai #Technology #protection #copyright #aiimage #invoke #News
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Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether Shakespeare is in the public domain
One of the darker threads of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is how complex copyright enforcement systems can be abused, for example by sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests for material that is perfectly legal. A recent post on the Public Citizen blog offers an extreme example of this blight. Here’s the summary of what happened:
When […]
#counternotice #dmca #google #infringement #nonProfit #publicDomain #registration #shakespeare #takedown #usCopyrightOffice #youtube
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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
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US Copyright Office Frees the McFlurry - HTTAY 109 Matt
#httay #uscopyrightoffice #mcdonalds #mcflurry #law #technology #righttorepair
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Those who win damages at the Copyright claims Board can now get certified final determinations to have them enforced in court.
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#AIvsCopyright
#Copyright, again, is coming to rein in…
For good?"The #USCopyrightOffice has issued the first part of a report on how AI may affect its domain, and its first recommendation out of the gate is: we need a new law right away to define and combat AI-powered #impersonation."