According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750. futurism.com/artificial-i...

There’s a reason that copyright law has never embraced an opt-out system and that’s because opt-out systems do not work. There are many legal, technical, operational, and policy problems and inefficiencies with an opt-out system. copyrightalliance.org/why-opt-out-...

The family of the American artist Norman Rockwell has called upon federal agencies to stop using the artist’s work in content promoting the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies. rehs.com/eng/2025/11/...

There’s a principle that keeps a free market free: You can’t take what isn’t yours and sell it as your own. Yet, that is precisely what some of the most prominent players in artificial intelligence are doing. dcjournal.com/ais-free-rid...

“These AI-generated synthetic imitations involuntarily resurrect iconic music performers, sports figures and actors without consent, context, or compensation—reducing cultural heritage to algorithmic spectacle and gratuitous ridicule,” it blasts. musically.com/2025/10/28/m...

Blackbeard's Henchmen Escape Prison! Gentleman pirate, Stede Bonnet, and the other two escape from prison with local help on this day. A sizeable £700 reward is posted for their re-capture. blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2018/10/blac...

Blackbeard Gets A Promotion! October 24, 1717: Blackbeard, takes command of a 12-gun sloop which he renames the Revenge. He also captures a Snow named the Sea Nymph which he adds to his growing pirate fleet. blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2020/10/blac...

“That doesn’t mean that the state then has free license to violate due process by infringing copyrights freely. Just because we can’t sue them doesn’t mean it’s right to infringe, doesn’t mean it’s right to steal property.” www.courthousenews.com/fourth-circu...

ICE in Portland: “Dear God, they’re Jazzercising in formation! Light ‘em up!”

Blackbeard A Pirating! October 22, 1717: Blackbeard and his pirate crew on the Revenge plunder the sloops Robert of Philadelphia and the Good Intent of Dublin and empty their cargo holds. blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2018/10/blac...

Families of at least 11 federal judges who've ruled against Trump in many politically charged lawsuits have been targeted with threats & harassment by Felon Trump, his enablers & MAGA. He pardoned 1,500 Jan6 criminals so they could be his private militia.

The Authors Guild exists to support working writers. Learn what we're doing about AI: authorsguild.org/advocacy/art... Join us to stop book banning: authorsguild.org/resource/sto... authorsguild.org/advocacy/

The deal is simultaneously groundbreaking and trivial, a paradox that reveals how artificial intelligence has fundamentally altered the economics of copyright infringement. copyrightlately.com/anthropic-se...

The Trump administration has said it intends to audit exhibitions and holdings at eight Smithsonian Institution museums to determine whether they align with the "President's directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive [and] partisan narratives.” www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...

The United States has a long history of leading the world in innovation and creativity. This leadership is the result of, and is dependent on, established and strong U.S. intellectual property laws. copyrightalliance.org/americas-cop...

The amended complaint against Suno maintains that the AI music startup fed “decades worth of the world’s most popular sound recordings” into its AI models without authorization from record companies. www.theverge.com/news/782448/...

The court reportedly was skeptical that OpenAI can escape liability by shifting the responsibility to users of ChatGPT who seek and obtain the outputs of song lyrics. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/10/01/m...

The acting guild believes “creativity is, and should remain, human-centered” and “is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.” variety.com/2025/film/ne...

The creative economy is one of America’s most valuable exports. Hollywood movies dominate box offices from Seoul to São Paulo, American music and streaming platforms set global tastes, and U.S. publishing supplies the backbone of education worldwide. thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thehill....

In the studios’ new cases, the tools’ mimicking copyrighted material “appears to be a feature rather than a bug.” news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/disne...

Facing backlash, OpenAI reverses course: rightsholders will decide whether their copyrighted characters can be generated by the Sora 2 video app, with revenue sharing for those who opt in. copyrightlately.com/openai-backt...

Midjourney has become a vending machine for WB content, selling a commercial service powered by AI that was developed using infringing copies of WB works and then allows users to reproduce or download infringing images or videos. hughstephensblog.net/2025/10/07/w...

Under copyright law, rightsholders can sue and obtain statutory damages for individual acts of infringement — regardless of whether the infringer offers an opt-out or not. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

When an ALI project is so riddled with disagreements that a substantial number of participants feel the need to resign and ask that their names be removed from the final product, it calls into question the legitimacy of the project. legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/copyright-bl...

Apple “continues to retain private AI training-data, including pirated books,” to train future models without compensating rightsholders or seeking their consent, the professors said. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/apple...

Copyright should not be treated as a barrier to U.S. strength in AI. It is the foundation of that strength.

Kenny Loggins has spoken out against Donald Trump using his song “Danger Zone” in a bizarre AI video of the president in a fighter jet bombing No Kings protesters with what appears to be fecal matter. variety.com/2025/music/n...

Blackbeard Pillages the Northeast! October 12, 1717: In the fall Blackbeard prowls the Delaware and Chesapeake bays in conjunction with two other pirate captains, Benjamin Hornigold and Stede Bonnet. blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2018/10/blac...

The tool makes it easy to spin short, polished videos from text prompts or images, complete with a social-media-style feed. But...unless rights holders affirmatively opt out, their characters may appear in Sora-generated clips. copyrightlately.com/new-sora-ai-...

Blackbeard Throws A Party! October 1718: Blackbeard parties at Ocracoke Island, NC with a sizable cohort that includes Charles Vane and "Calico Jack" Rackham. blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2018/10/blac...

The project presents a problem for recording companies and music publishers, as much of the music remains under copyright and continues to be commercially exploited. www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/labels-settl...

Encyclopaedia Britannica & Merriam-Webster accuse Perplexity in 55-page civil complaint of violating their copyrights both at the curation stage when it uses a software program called “PerplexityBot” to crawl & scrape their websites for Perplexity’s “answer engine” courthousenews.com/encyclopaedi...

Downloading and storing pirated content is clearly not legal, even if it is to be used for a fair use purpose. hughstephensblog.net/2025/09/13/w...

“MiniMax operates Hailuo AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence image and video generating service that pirates and plunders Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works on a massive scale,” the companies said in the lawsuit, filed Tuesday. variety.com/2025/digital...

The “siege” they fear is a figment of their own imagination. Site blocking isn’t some theoretical concept where we are left to predict what might happen if deployed. It’s been tried and tested globally for over a decade and passed with flying colors. copyrightalliance.org/flawed-case-...

The tech companies are operating as imperialists, scouring foreign lands whose resources they can plunder. Brazenly. Without consent. Without attribution. Without redress. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI-generated history videos with hundreds of thousands of views and many inaccuracies are drowning out fact-checked, expert-produced content. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Blackbeard's French Prize! September 12, 1718: Blackbeard returns to North Carolina with the Rose Emelye, a French ship known as the "Sugar Ship" for it's cargo of sugar and cocoa, captured in Martinique. blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2018/09/blac...

The lawsuit accuses Midjourney of building its business around the mass theft of content. The company “brazenly dispenses Warner Bros. Discovery’s intellectual property” by letting subscribers produce images and videos of iconic copyrighted characters. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said in a court filing on Tuesday it has resolved a class action lawsuit from a group of U.S. authors who argued the company's AI training infringed their copyrights, marking the first settlement in the U.S. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

King George I has Enough of Piracy! September 5, 1717: Having had enough of the scourge of piracy King George I issues a royal decree, the Act of Grace (aka Proclamation for Suppressing of Pirates) blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2018/09/king...

This blog looks back on those orders and other key developments in AI and copyright cases over the past six months. copyrightalliance.org/ai-copyright...

They can’t handle or generate novelty, they become stymied when forced to operate with uncertainty or incomplete information, and they lack empathy and any real conception of understanding. thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thehill....

Blackbeard Captures Two Prizes! August 23, 1718: Blackbeard and his crew on the Adventure [II] spy two French merchant ships, one fully laden and the other in ballast, sailing Northward from the Caribbean island of Martinique. blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2018/08/blac...

I read that as capturing a scallop which is about right for our intrepid Stede

This is a conservation success story in the works. The waters here are far cleaner than they used to be, and an increase in bait fish is now attracting sand tigers to Boston Harbor as a nursery area. Knotek says about 1-2% of the population is restored each year. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

The epitome of this is the use of the Books3 dataset. Books3 is a collection of nearly 200,000 pirated books. Almost none of the books in there are with the permission of their authors or publishers. www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/08/12/i...

The potential scope of works that Anthropic allegedly infringed numbers in the hundreds of thousands to millions & consists of works from thousands of copyright owners, both authors & publishers. Your house and your authors may each be part of the class.” publishingperspectives.com/2025/08/copy...

Judge Alsup has ordered Plaintiffs’ counsel to provide official class notice by first-class mail and e-mail. To accomplish this, we are collecting mailing addresses and e-mail contacts for as many authors and publishers as possible. www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

The proposal gave "a free pass" to multinational tech companies, such as Google, Meta and OpenAI, to continue using unauthorised copyrighted material to train their AI models. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...