copyright When Tom Waits sued Frito Lay for paying someone to imitate his voice Natalie Dressed

legal Einstein's "extremely aggressive and litigious" estate makes $12.5m a year in image licensing fees Mark Frauenfelder

Copyfight Minnesota lawmakers propose bizarre, dangerous PRINCE law Cory Doctorow

Food Chocolate Cumberbunny: this Easter, gnaw on Benedict's face Cory Doctorow

law Tennessee bans using AI to impersonate an artist's voice or likeness Natalie Dressed

"This bill is 100% supposed to scare you," says Rick Roth, Florida State Representative Elías Villoro

lawsuits Rick Astley suing imitator for "theft of voice" Mark Frauenfelder

music Musician Ariel Pink used unauthorized photo of artist Jill Miller on album cover, so now she's selling alternative covers featuring Ariel as NFTs David Pescovitz

canada Courts rule, again, that Duke Caboom is not Evel Knievel Jason Weisberger

History The tragic story of Robert Opel, the 1974 Oscar Streaker Devin Nealy

walmart Walmart fired a worker with Down syndrome. A judge just ordered it to rehire her. Rob Beschizza

lawsuits Woman sues man who set up a GoFundMe campaign for a Starbucks worker she shamed Mark Frauenfelder

censorship Disney's live-action "Mulan" remake pissed off human rights activists, which pissed off the Chinese government Thom Dunn

science fiction Chinese government releases new guidelines for science fiction Thom Dunn

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

racism Delta fined for discriminating against Muslim passengers Rob Beschizza

Business TikTok owner ByteDance launches new deal with Chinese government Xeni Jardin

Boing Boing Gadgets Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law Cory Doctorow

corruption Sony's copyright bots remove a band's own release of its new video Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Malware authors have figured out how to get Google to do "irreversible takedowns" of the sites they compete with Cory Doctorow