I testified to the Senate about Section 230 yesterday. It was an unusually substantive and thoughtful hearing. www.youtube.com/live/F8T5vCm...

the upsides of the Paramount/Warner stuff: 1. Nobody at Paramount seems remotely competent 2. The U.S. isn't Hungary 3. The huge debt makes collapse very likely 4. Humans still have agency 5. Every time anybody has tried to use Warner to dominate media (see: AT&T) it has failed spectacularly

🧵TL;DR the biggest AI companies and the New York Times are destroying history and accountability at the same time. www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

Our director @evangreer.bsky.social penned an op-ed for @erininthemorning.bsky.social on how @warren.senate.gov is blatantly ignoring Boston LGTBQ+ orgs who are speaking out against KOSA. Please read it + tag her below telling her to drop support for KOSA! www.erininthemorning.com/p/op-ed-with...

In Q4, CC continued our work in international fora that shape cultural rights and copyright, as well as our advocacy for AI policies that serve the public interest. Read the full policy review: buff.ly/hBal5Z2 "Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building," Carol M Highsmith, 2007, CC0, Flickr.

Like @mmasnick.bsky.social, I also said Breton's letter to Elon was extraordinarily stupid, and had very different views on how to handle antivax propaganda than CCDH. But that was CCDH's speech. The censorship is the state action happening now. This is the right take: www.ms.now/opinion/marc...

Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google 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…

As the former Google Associate General Counsel for web search -- a product built on scraping third party content without permission -- I'm having a lot of trouble processing Google's new lawsuit against someone else for scraping search results. storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Was doing some research around AI agents, and ensuring users' rights - and @anildash.com was really cooking here. In 2013! www.anildash.com/2013/03/19/t...

Building evidence and driving toward scientific consensus around AI’s impact on youth mental health is not going to be straightforward, but industry can and should engage with and support better research, says Betsy Masiello, cofounder of Proteus Strategies. buff.ly/79VTteV

Cornell is seeking postdocs for the Empire AI Fellows program. The focus is on technical research, but if this looks interesting to you and your technical AI work has connections to law, please reach out! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971

worth reading this alongside www.techdirt.com/2025/10/24/r... - while my article is about (c) and reddit's claims is a weird mutant, important to consider the competitive implications of these claims against AI services

@mcarrier.bsky.social and @derekslater.bsky.social explain how copyright's competition-promoting tools can be used to combat Big Tech's monopoly power and foster a robust AI marketplace. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/worr...

#Reddit’s ‘#AI #Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The #OpenInternet - www.techdirt.com/2025/10/24/r... important detailed analysis by @mmasnick.bsky.social of very bad, very reckless behaviour

also: as a policy matter, this seems incongruent with what antimonopoly advocates have sought and in part achieved in the Search antitrust case. Perplexity is using Google's SERP to create a competing product; Reddit says they shouldn't be able to.

I'm unimpressed by Reddit's lawsuit against Perplexity et al. In the process of pleading notably weak DMCA claims, I think Reddit pleads itself out of court on its state-law claims. 1/ cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/u...

Some of us are old enough to remember when Reddit cared about the open web and recognized the DMCA shouldn’t be used as a hack around fair use. x.com/lehogg/statu...

This is an interesting tactic by Cloudflare, but I don't believe the legal hook that Prince suggests will influence Google exists under U.S. law. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/i...

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

Really smart analysis by music industry veteran and @au-mtd.bsky.social doctoral candidate Neil Perry: The Manufactured Panic Over Tilly Norwood #ai #cinema #labor #IP

for those who don't follow it, "chat control" is the idea that, since encrypted messaging can't be spied on / monitored, that your actual phone should scan everything you write or send before you send it www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

I have never in my life covered an FCC official that gives less of a fuck about the public interest even first term FCC boss Ajit Pai, who was a complete revolving door hack, believed this sort of censorship crossed a line

Losing my ever-loving-mind watching the same people who were just clutching their pearls claiming censorship over mean emails from WH staffers to Twitter about COVID misinfo are now HAVING THE FCC CHAIR openly threaten broadcast licenses over a joke about the president AND THE BROADCASTERS CENSOR IT

And the Ellisons are also first in line to buy TikTok if it gets sold, which would fuse CBS, CNN, Time Warner, Paramount, and TikTok all into one company whose entire function would be to blow smoke up the right wing's ass

See also: bsky.app/profile/daph... (filed under 'it could still get worse')

I found this explanation of the Bartz v Anthropic settlement quite useful. www.authorsalliance.org/2025/09/07/t...

This letter is important. It is a careful, detailed, scholarly, and accurate explanation of the elements of the DSA and EU law that prevent the DSA from being a "censorship" law in the first place. The list of EU expert signatories is stellar. @hutko.bsky.social @joanbarata.bsky.social

The linked headline's "unexpected" is ridiculous. Every person who worked in this space (specifically, not legislators) said, correctly, that this would happen. It should be replaced with "predicted" or "standard" or "obvious." This is not an untried policy! See also FOSTA/SESTA.

New from me and @derekslater.bsky.social on @lawfaremedia.org: What History Can Teach Us About Copyright, AI, and ‘Market Floods’

There’s still 2 more days to check out Runway’s AI Film Festival in IMAX, and if you’re at all interested in this space, would recommend checking it out: www.imax.com/movie/runway... This felt like a normal experimental film festival, and I mean that in a good way. 1/

This ruling is 🔥🔥🔥. It also mentions that this is just one of seventeen CIDs the FTC sent as part of this investigation. I guess the other sixteen are just quietly self-censoring and placating the administration. Understandably enough.

Keeping up with UKOS is fine if you have a giant public policy team like Meta or Alphabet. But for me, or small NGOs, or Wikimedia... It's a meaningful barrier that you can't understand what is going on without reading twenty interconnected documents and understanding a complex procedural history.

This morning we filed a lawsuit against Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem challenging the constitutionality of two laws they are using to deport noncitizens because of speech they don't like. Nobody should get a midnight knock on the door for disfavored speech, let alone kicked out of the country.

"It turns out that a paid subscription model does not transform a platform's incentives the way [Substack's CEO] said it would." Blaming algorithms for people seems a lot like blaming anonymity/pseudonymity for people.

My latest essay, "The Supreme Court Pretends to Think of the Children," offers a short analysis of Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, the Texas porn site age verification case. You can read it here in George Washington Law Review's On the Docket www.gwlr.org/fsc-v-paxton...

Copyright is a form of policing. It’s inherently rooted in censorship and surveillance. Historically, copyright accelerates consolidation of power and extracts creativity for profit. If we use copyright to fight AI, it consolidates power further. A future where everything is licensed? No thx

1/ Joined by a coalition of free speech allies, @thefireorg.bsky.social filed a brief urging SCOTUS to vacate a 5th Circuit decision allowing an unconstitutional social media law to take effect while Mississippi appeals a ruling enjoining it on 1st Amendment grounds. www.thefire.org/research-lea...

Creative people and people of good will who are allies and advocates for creativity need to come to grips with the fact that AI training is generally fair use for the same deep reasons that critique, parody, teaching, scholarship, and other daily creative practices are fair use.

New on my blog: The Ordinary Reasonable Person encounters (or not) cyber-abuse. Commentary on a recent decision of the Australian Administrative Review Tribunal about a content removal notice issued by the eSafety Commissioner. www.cyberleagle.com/2025/07/the-...

I don't think I ever posted this here: my reaction to Free Speech Coalition v Paxton publicknowledge.org/protecting-k...

🚨 One week to register! Join the 17 July (15h CEST) KR21 webinar exploring the AI regulation copyright trap: are we heading to a negative-sum game for all, including creators & researchers? Expert speakers: @datainnovation.org @bruegel.bsky.social @thelisboncouncil.bsky.social 🔗 kr21.info/17july25

Oh hey, remember there are other AI lawsuits out there besides Bartz and Kadrey?? Here's my take on the Hollywood lawsuit - it's not about creativity, it's about control.

🦋 gif - is this AI driven market dilution? www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/warner-music...

We’re kicking off public feedback on CC signals, a new framework meant to help sustain the commons in the age of AI! Designed to build reciprocity, CC signals let data stewards express how content may be used and how AI systems should give back. Learn more: buff.ly/r4KBnRx #CCsignals

I live-blogged my initial reading of today's opinion from Judge Alsup in Bartz v. Anthropic here: bsky.app/profile/bb..... But what are the most interesting, big-picture holdings? Here goes: 🧵

In re today's fair use ruling, tapping the antimonopoly sign regarding books and AI training: creativecommons.org/wp-content/u...