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Netflix has retreated from its protracted bidding war with Larry Ellison for control of Warner Brothers, giving the Trump ally likely control of Warner, CNN, and HBO. In a statement, Netflix co-CEO…

Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…

Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.

Last week, Google filed suit against SerpApi, a scraping company that helps businesses pull data from Google search results. The lawsuit claims SerpApi violated DMCA Section 1201 by circumventing Google's "technological protection measures" to access search results—and the copyrighted content within them—without permission. There's just one problem with this theory: Google built its entire business on scraping the web without asking permission first.

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Copyright’s limits play essential antimonopoly functions. Undermining them in the context of AI is likely to strengthen Big Tech.

When Reddit sued “data scraper” companies and AI firm Perplexity earlier this week, I assumed it was another predictable skirmish over AI training data—the kind of case we’ve been…

Hey @Reddit, this you arguing for reforms to the DMCA so that companies can't abuse it to prevent people from "using their electronic devices in lawful, non-infringing ways?" What changed? https://t.co/9Gbshj6DOK

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google’s hand.

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The recent uproar over Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated “actress” introduced at the Zurich Film Festival, has revealed more about…

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat ...

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com EDIT: On Sunday evening, Judge Alsup granted the motion for a hearing on Monday, September 8th, but expressed disappointment over lack of details, mostly on the…

Although some fear that AI will flood the market, harming existing copyrighted works, historical examples seem to tell a different story. 

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July 31, 2025 Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, 606 U.S. ____ (2025) (Thomas, J.) Response by Mary Anne Franks Geo. Wash. L. Rev. On the Docket (Oct. Term 2024) Slip Opinion | SCOTUSblog Free Spe...

Because the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stayed the district court’s preliminary injunction, Mississippians must now contend with an unconstitutional restriction on their First...

The recent decision of the Australian Administrative Review Tribunal in X Corp and Elston v eSafety Commissioner illustrates the complexiti...

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WMG CEO Robert Kyncl said: ‘Augmenting our deep expertise and global infrastructure with Bain Capital’s financial prowess and belief in music will make us the destination of choice for preeminent…