"Copyright" Blogs & Blog Posts

Kanye West asked Donna Summer's estate for permission to use a sample of I Feel Love on his album Vultures 1. They denied it—not unremarkable given West's reputation as an antisemite—but he used it anyway. Summer's widower sued and they have now...

If you're not familiar with New Orleans bounce, one of the best, if not the greatest subgenres of dance music to go absolutely wild to, start studying now. The test is tomorrow and if you don't pass, you'll never be able to dance again! — Read...

There was a time in the late 80s when Frito Lay wanted Tom Waits to endorse Doritos. They wanted it real bad. They wanted it so bad, in fact, that they hired a guy whose specialty was to sound exactly like Tom Waits, since Waits, to put it lightly, w...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there is no time limit for recovering monetary damages in copyright cases filed before the statue of limitations. The case "turned on whether copyright damages are limited to the period of infringement that occurre...

A former Amazon exec alleges that the company instructed her to ignore copyright rules to stay afloat in the race for AI innovation.

The long-held promise of Artificial Intelligence was that machines would do all the drudge work and we would be left to create. In this AI-enabled utopia, assembly, construction, and hard labor of all kinds, as well as boring sorting and filing and s...

The Electronic Software Association, the main lobby for the video games in the United States, remains flatly uninterested in helping… Continue reading Games industry lobby still says no way to preservation efforts, copyright exceptions The post...