dmca Hacking McDonalds' ice cream machines to figure out why they're always broken Thom Dunn

NFTs Someone tried to make a Magic: The Gathering NFT system and Wizards of the Coast isn't having it Thom Dunn

Copyfight Mormon church uses bogus copyright claims in attempt to censor Mormonleaks Cory Doctorow

music What happens when you use music reviews as prompts for AI generated music? Thom Dunn

copyright Federal judge says AI-generated artwork can't be copyrighted, because of monkeys Thom Dunn

generative AI Bing: "I will not harm you unless you harm me first" Mark Frauenfelder

intellectual property More shady legal trouble over the rights to American classic To Kill a Mockingbird Thom Dunn

youtube Popular YouTube music stream Lo Fi Beats taken down after "false" copyright claim (updated) Rob Beschizza

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

law Github restores youtube-dl Rob Beschizza

rights Original "Yesterday" screenwriter says Richard Curtis took more than a one-sentence idea Rob Beschizza

chiptunes Chiptunes plagiarized Rob Beschizza

youtube Warner claims ownership over the numbers 36 and 50, and demonetizes Youtube videos that incorporate them Cory Doctorow

youtube Youtube's Content ID has become the tool of choice for grifty copyfraudsters who steal from artists Cory Doctorow

eff In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Americans should definitely be worried about the EU's new copyright rules Cory Doctorow

Business The three biggest Chinese business scams that target foreign firms Cory Doctorow

web theory Distinguishing between "platforms" and "aggregators" in competition law Cory Doctorow

Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow

corruption White nationalists who got a $2.5m payout from UNC abuse the DMCA to censor lawyer's trove of documents about it Cory Doctorow