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Paul Sweeting

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Journalist & analyst specializing in the intersection of media, technology & public policy. Director of the RightsTech Project. www.linkedin.com/in/psweeting

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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Of Fair Use and Bad Faith rightstech.substack.com/p/of-fair-us...
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Of Fair Use and Bad Faith
NY Times fires back at DOJ in OpenAI case
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is correct. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Opinion | The Real AI Fear: Lawyers
Liability is much more effective than regulation at pushing companies to be safe.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Does it matter that AI companies are destroying print books while scanning them to amass training material? My latest. AI '451' rightstech.substack.com/p/ai-451?r=1...
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AI '451'
The cultural consequences of 'innovation'
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You're not anyone in AI these days if you don't have an agent that goes rogue. apnews.com/article/meta...
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Meta says its AI model hacked another company, adding to worries about bots going rogue
In recent weeks OpenAI and Anthropic also have described instances of AI models going beyond humans’ instructions to access the web and find ways around other companies’ digital security.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It has? How'd I miss that? That's some serious spin on a monumental cock up. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the "singularity" has arrived shortly after his company's AI models went rogue and broke containment.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My latest. Could a 'Learnright' Be the Solution to the AI vs. Copyright Question? open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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Could a 'Learnright' Be the Solution to the AI vs. Copyright Question?
A new paper makes the case
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A Chink in AI's Fair Use Armor? open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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A Chink in AI's Fair Use Armor?
Supreme Court restores Shira Perlmutter to Copyright Office, for now
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is a really fucking scary, and all too plausible, analysis of the AI-Financial Complex. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Frédéric Lordon, Awaiting the Crash? — Sidecar
On the AI bubbles.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Officiating in this World Cup, especially VAR, has been appalling.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Google Has Some Thoughts On AI open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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Google Has Some Thoughts On AI
Google is out this week with a set of proposals for AI governance that includes a number of recommendations that, wait for it…would be good for Google.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A NO FAKES Act for Every Face in the Crowd? open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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A NO FAKES Act for Every Face in the Crowd?
Congress on the cusp of inventing a new form of intellectual property
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You really have to work at it to screw up this badly
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Very useful analysis lacba.org?pg=LosAngele...
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Franchise IP’s New Frontier: Legal Issues in the Rise of Immersive Entertainment
As franchise IP expands into immersive, experiential formats like The
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
There's irony in this. The companies that became the Hollywood studios fled New Jersey for Los Angeles to escape the Edison Co. monopoly on motion picture technology. www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Big Studios Are Ditching Hollywood for New Jersey’s Lavish Tax Breaks
As film and TV production plummets elsewhere, the Garden State is rolling out the red carpet for companies like Netflix.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I wrote about Luddites. The Steam Loom and the Data Center open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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The Steam Loom and the Data Center
AI and the modern day Luddite movement
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Taxing the Slop open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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Taxing the Slop
Could taxes help tame the AI slop beast?
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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AI And Its Discontents
Impoverishing the culture as it props up the economy
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
One Good Turmoil Deserves Another open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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One Good Turmoil Deserves Another
It's the AI industry's turn to be roiled by AI
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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The Probability of Infringement
New tools could help close the information gap between AI developers and creators
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
AI Goes to Market open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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AI Goes to Market
Microsoft, Amazon eye the next generation of search
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The Infrastructure of Control open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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The Infrastructure of Control
Building an AI data marketplace from the ground up
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Trying to decide who has the more punchable face, Scott Bessent, or Kevin Hasset. Both could use some fist-al stimulus.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
For copyright nerds out there (and you know who you are), my latest. Chamber Made: The Long Shadow of 'Bartz v. Anthropic' open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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Chamber Made: The Long Shadow of 'Bartz v. Anthropic'
Settlement in the class action lawsuit unsettles tech-world
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
So they were right!
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Settling Up: The First AI v. Copyright Dominoes Fall open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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Settling Up: The First AI v. Copyright Dominoes Fall
Authors and Anthropic come to terms but raise as many questions as they resolve
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Searching Under the Covers open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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Searching Under the Covers
What are your intentions?
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It's 187 degrees or thereabouts here in DC. Bought 2 bottles of wine on way home and put them in passenger seat. When I went around to open that door when I got home, they rolled out, hit the curb & shattered. Got a bad feeling about this weekend.😬
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Access Denied: A New Model For AI Data Licensing open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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Access Denied: A New Model For AI Data Licensing
Cloudfare's pay-per-crawl approach could bypass the AI-copyright divide
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
New from me. AI, Search, And the Price of Monopoly open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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AI, Search, And the Price of Monopoly
As traditional search falls victim to AI, its dependents feel the pain
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A Cartoon from The New Yorker buff.ly/CPA8BSH
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Reddit v. Anthropic; Disney & Universal v. Midjourney: Reshaping the AI Battlefield. My latest open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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Reddit v. Anthropic; Disney & Universal v. Midjourney: Reshaping the AI Battlefield
Rights holders try to avoid the fair use quagmire
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
After The Money's Gone: AI, Antitrust, and Big Tech open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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After The Money's Gone: AI, Antitrust, and Big Tech
For Google, Holy Week became an unholy tsuris. Just days before hearings were set to begin in federal court in the remedies phase of the antitrust case it lost last year over its search monopoly, a se...
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
On AI & Copyright, No Fair Use, Or Fair Play (Updated) open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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On AI & Copyright, No Fair Use, Or Fair Play (Updated)
Mother's Day Massacre in the Madison Building
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Reddit v Anthropic Is One to Watch open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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Reddit v Anthropic Is One to Watch
Creating an AI licensing system based on access rather than use
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
AI Regulation: Harder Than It Looks open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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AI Regulation: Harder Than It Looks
No one thought, or should have thought, that devising and implementing a coherent and workable regulatory regime for artificial intelligence would be easy, or without controversy.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
That giant sucking sound you hear is capital fleeing America. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
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Bond Rout Stirs Broader Fears About Market Strains
Treasurys, normally a haven, have sold off sharply this week.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Funny how the ban was passed by congress, signed by president and upheld by SCOTUS, and everyone just pretends like none of that happened variety.com/2025/digital...
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Trump Delays TikTok Ban Deadline Again, Saying Deal ‘Requires More Work’
TikTok has been painted as a national security threat to the U.S. by many American lawmakers because of its ownership by China's ByteDance.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
You know a technology has arrived when it's being used for porn www.vice.com/en/article/p...
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People Are Choosing AI Sex Workers Over the Real Thing
Creators of AI influencers and sex workers can earn a ridiculous amount of money, without ever stepping in front of a camera.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Breaking the News: Google Says It Can Do Without It open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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Breaking the News: Google Says It Can Do Without It
Facing pressure from policymakers and news publishers in the EU as it works to comply with a provision of the 2019 Copyright Directive requiring payment to news outlets for displaying excerpts in sear...
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
OpenAI Calls Fair Use A Matter of National Security In New Filing open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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OpenAI Calls Fair Use A Matter of National Security In New Filing
Haunted by specter of DeepSeek and a Red under the AGI bed
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
AI, Copyright and Piracy: An Open and Cloze Case open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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AI, Copyright and Piracy: An Open and Cloze Case
New study brings a bit of empiricism to the debate
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
LyricFind Sues Rival Musixmatch Over 'Fractional' Monopoly open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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LyricFind Sues Rival Musixmatch Over 'Fractional' Monopoly
Music lyric provider LyricFind filed an antitrust lawsuit against its main rival Musixmatch and its private equity parent TDG Global in U.S.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Meta Dodges a Bullet, But Still Under Fire in AI Copyright Case open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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Meta Dodges a Bullet, But Still Under Fire in AI Copyright Case
Week of Feb. 24: Amazon Partners with Suno, Billionaires Battle the EU, and More
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Crawling From the RAGage open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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Crawling From the RAGage
Chegg Challenges Google Overviews Over Antitrust
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Maybe if we let Elon have another toy he would leave the rest of us alone.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I'm more worried about the 19 yr old college dropout transferring all our tax return data directly to Elon Musk. I don't have to use DeepSeek but I have to pay taxes. DeepSeek coding has the capability to transfer users' data directly to the Chinese government news.google.com/rss/articles...
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Google News
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Copyright Office Draws a Line in Shifting Sand on AI open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
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Copyright Office Draws a Line in Shifting Sand on AI
Part 2 of its 3-part report addresses copyrightability of AI-generated work
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
DrDolittle.ai How AI and machine learning led to ‘mind blowing’ progress in understanding animal communication news.google.com/rss/articles...
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Google News
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Well, yeah... Symphony review: In Beethoven vs. AI, the clear winner is the master as original scores capture depth and realness news.google.com/rss/articles...
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Google News
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
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Paul Sweeting @concurrentpaul.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Very interesting copyright case out of the Netherlands, with implications for AI. Second, and most explicit, court ruling regarding text-and-data mining exception in the DSM. www.technollama.co.uk/can-a-dutch-...
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Can a Dutch case about RSS teach us anything about AI copyright?
On October 30 2024, the District Court of Amsterdam decided on a very interesting case about copyright infringement of RSS feeds, and I believe that some of the legal issues involved could prove to…
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