When people can repair their devices, they don't buy new ones. When people don't buy new devices, Apple doesn't sell them new devices.

"A totally unreasonable proposal."

“Human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does

It's complicated. So we reached out to legal experts for some definitive answers.

The National Music Publishers Assn., acting on behalf of 17 major music publishers, is filing a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Twitter for its failure to license and pay

We’ve noted repeatedly that as the streaming sector grows and consolidates, it’s revealing many of the same problems we saw inherent in traditional, shitty, cable TV. As in the need to …

A recent ruling against the Internet Archive for copyright infringement threatens a treasured and critical public institution: our libraries.

The court finds the late artist's painting of Prince infringed on a photographer's copyright.

Any images that are produced by giving a text prompt to current generative AI models, such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, cannot be copyrighted in the US. That's according to the US Copyright Office (USCO), which has equated such prompts to a buyer giving directions to a commissioned artist. "They identify what the prompter wishes to have depicted, but the machine determines how those instructions are implemented in its output," the USCO wrote in new guidance it published to the Federal Register.

Copyright Office will field public input during listening sessions this spring.

One of the (many) villains in “Walled Culture” the book (free ebook versions) is the publishing industry, specifically in the context of the transition from analogue books to ebooks. Wh…

The images in this comic book are “not of human authorship”

It's especially effective against Shutterstock watermarks.

Ever try to read a physical book passed down in your family from 100 years ago?  Probably worked well. Ever try reading an ebook you paid for 10 years ago?   Probably a different experience. From the leasing business model of mega publishers to physical device evolution to format obsolescence, digital books are fragile and […]

Getty Images claims Stability AI copied millions of copyright-protected images to train its text-to-image generator, Stable Diffusion.

Dr Dre has successfully blocked Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from using his music in any context to do with her political career after she used his 1999 hit Still Dre to soundtrack a promotional video. In the nearly two-minute video, posted on 9 January with the caption, “It’s time to begin … and they can’t stop what’s coming”, the far-right Georgia lawmaker walks out of her office in slow motion to the familiar first notes of the song, which features Snoop Dogg.

Along with a wealth of silent films.

You may have noticed the world getting excited about the capabilities of ChatGPT, a text-based AI chat bot. Similarly, some are getting quite worked up over generative AI systems that can turn text…

Works from 1927 are open to all! On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain.