The government’s lawsuit against REPS & Company exposes an alleged industrial-scale ticket scalping operation. But who ...

The Justice Department has a problem with Judge Vince Chhabria’s opinion in Kadrey v. Meta. Actually, it has two problems. First, DOJ likes Judge Chhabria’s conclusion that training a large language ...

There is something reassuring about reading a Copyright Royalty Board order and realizing, question after question: yes, that is exactly what they should be asking ...

The Justice Department has entered the consolidated New York Times v. OpenAI litigation with a remarkable proposition dressed up as an ordinary application of fair use: courts should effectively ...

C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is a satirical novel framed as correspondence from Screwtape, a senior demon, to his inexperienced nephew Wormwood. Screwtape advises him how to tempt and manipulate ...

The data-center backlash has crossed an important threshold. It is no longer principally a collection of zoning disputes, transmission fights, tax-policy arguments, and local environmental campaigns.

The data-center backlash has crossed yet another threshold. Readers will not be shocked by this turn of events if you followed the insanity of David Sacks and Adam Thierer pushing a ham-handed federal ...

What Is Machine Unlearning—and Why Should Musicians Care? One of the most important promises emerging in AI licensing is also one of the least understood: machine unlearning. AI companies increasingly ...

Full disclosure: I have a little skin in this game. A few editions of All You Need to Know About the Music Business included the classical music section that you kindly thanked me for helping with.

If you saw the adverb “forever” in a contract, would it give you pause? It would me—I would wonder who allowed that to slip through. As text-to-audio generative AI models desperately try to normalize ...

Multi-generation family farm dispute has become a national property-rights story. I don’t blame them. I wouldn’t want to give up my property either. A Kentucky family is suing to protect its ancestral ...

National Score: 8.5/10. Indicators include petitions, moratoria, lawsuits, zoning rewrites, candidate involvement, neighborhood coalitions, and growing media coverage. Imagine living with the loud hum ...