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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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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee hearing titled “Field of Streams: The New C...

Generative AI, machine learning and other computational uses of copyrighted works pose profound conceptual questions for copyright law. This article surveys mul

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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.

The Frog is owning the president.

Visual effects artists are turning to green screen AI tools from companies such as Runway to save time and money on productions.

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 ...

Cloudflare’s Content Signals Policy gives creators a new tool to control use of their content.

This Internet Draft proposes a category entitled "AI Substitutive Use" which would enable parties to express a preference regarding how digital assets are used by automated processing systems, with a ...

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…