DC Comics Public domain or not, Warner Bros. may sue if your Superman flies Mark Frauenfelder

music No AI for Al. "Weird Al" Yankovic yanks AI commercial Ruben Bolling

Science A new book, Poking the Squid, tells the scandalous, salacious truth about animal sex, in comics form Ruben Bolling

law CNN sues Perplexity AI over "verbatim" copies of articles Rob Beschizza

law Armed with German copyright, Fender threatens makers of Strat-style guitars Rob Beschizza

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law Wikipedia bans AI-generated content Rob Beschizza

Free Software Foundation demands freedom from Anthropic, not money Ellsworth Toohey

law Scambaiter hires two fake lawyers to fight each other in court Grant St. Clair

News Britannica sues OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 articles Ellsworth Toohey

Technology The Supreme Court won't hear the AI copyright case, ending the last legal path to protect machine-made art Ellsworth Toohey

art The Mondrian estate is threatening people over a public domain painting Ellsworth Toohey

books Kerouac's 121-foot scroll of On the Road goes to auction for up to $4M Ellsworth Toohey

movies WikiFlix is like Netflix for public domain films, with no ads, no logins, and no data harvesting Ellsworth Toohey

books Public Domain Day 2026: Hammett, Faulkner, Christie, Kafka now free Ellsworth Toohey

Activist online archive scrapes virtually all of Spotify Gail Sherman

Technology Librarian spent 5 years fighting Proctorio lawsuit for sharing public YouTube videos Ellsworth Toohey

books Disney loses the rights to Roger Rabbit characters, as they revert to original author of novel Ruben Bolling

AI Meta: 2,400 porn downloads on corporate IPs for personal use, not training AI Rob Beschizza

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