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November 2026

  1. So Long, and Thanks for All the Training Data: AG Szpunar issues opinion in Like Company v Google

October 2026

  1. AI has no copyright? Tell that to the software industry
  2. Everything I know about AI regulation I learned from music videos
  3. Recreating Adobe: AI and the limits of software copyright

September 2026

  1. Some things I believe about AI, until further notice
  2. V/H/S SCP: When fandom meets law and Creative Commons

August 2026

  1. Are we really living through a technology backlash?
  2. GEMA v Suno: Another landmark AI copyright case from Germany

July 2026

  1. Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright law
  2. OpenAI wins first battle in ongoing Indian copyright lawsuit
  3. Why does AI in science fiction so often miss the mark?
  4. Androids do dream of electric sheep, so where next for copyright?

June 2026

  1. Smart glasses, augmented reality, and always-on surveillance
  2. The under-16 social media ban and the rise of “show me your papers” internet
  3. Fable and the impending AI Cold War
  4. Copyright implications of super-intelligence

May 2026

  1. Open source and commons ideals are more important than ever
  2. Why AI slop is taking over the world

April 2026

  1. Pastiche or cliché? What Pelham II might mean for AI outputs

March 2026

  1. Why are people adopting AI to write?
  2. An end to the input-output dichotomy in AI copyright? Like Company v Google takes an unexpected turn
  3. No, the US Supreme Court did not declare that AI works cannot be copyrighted

February 2026

  1. SeeDance and the new media landscape

January 2026

  1. Can you steal game gold pieces? The Court of Appeal says yes
  2. Why We Need Tech Lawyers to Shine Again

December 2025

  1. We need to talk about the EU TDM exception and AI training

November 2025

  1. The persistence of memorization
  2. Victory for GEMA in Germany against OpenAI
  3. Getty Images v Stability AI: A landmark High Court ruling on AI, copyright, and trade marks
  4. Social media sucks, but what’s the alternative?

October 2025

  1. From broadcast to self-cast: The future of AI-made entertainment
  2. Sora 2 and the end of copyright as we know it

September 2025

  1. Communication to the public is about to shape the future of AI copyright

August 2025

  1. The Online Safety Act: How not to do internet regulation

July 2025

  1. Revisiting copyright infringement in AI inputs and outputs
  2. AI and Copyright in the UK
  3. How AI is breaking traditional remuneration models

June 2025

  1. Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for copyright infringement

May 2025

  1. First case on AI and copyright referred to the CJEU
  2. How did “openness” fall out of fashion?

April 2025

  1. The Appstore Killed the Website Star
  2. Doomscrolling Blues: Reclaiming positivity in social media
  3. How many people are using generative AI on a daily basis? A Gemini report

March 2025

  1. The Style Returns: Some notes on ChatGPT and Studio Ghibli
  2. The end of digital property

February 2025

  1. The end of the student essay? Reasoning AIs are starting to cross into pass territory
  2. Snow Crash and the Networked State
  3. What’s going on with AI copyright authorship?

January 2025

  1. Will DeepSeek impact the AI Copyright Wars?

December 2024

  1. UK Government publishes consultation on Copyright and AI
  2. I asked o1 to write a blog post about AI sentience
  3. Can a Dutch case about RSS teach us anything about AI copyright?

November 2024

  1. The politics of AI

October 2024

  1. 20 years of TechnoLlama

September 2024

  1. LAION wins copyright infringement lawsuit in German court
  2. Copyright for Dummies
  3. A short history of the Copyright Wars
  4. A short guide to the Copyright Wars
  5. Fade to grey: The end of good vs evil in fiction?

August 2024

  1. Telegram rehashes some old Internet regulation debates
  2. Snoopy, Mario, Pikachu, and reproduction in generative AI

July 2024

  1. The problem with academic publishing
  2. What can internet history teach us?

June 2024

  1. What’s the status of AI and copyright?

May 2024

  1. The Scarlett Letter: Impersonation, publicity rights, and AI assistants
  2. The rise and rise of the online content creation industry
  3. Moonbirds and CC0: Problems with NFT licensing and the public domain

April 2024

  1. To delve or not to delve: AI detection made easy?
  2. The end of the online mob and the end of shared reality

March 2024

  1. Forgotten Dystopias: The Godlike AI That Time Forgot
  2. The EU AI Act and copyright
  3. VCRs, tape recorders, and AI

February 2024

  1. Do you own your voice? The challenges of voice cloning
  2. Barcelona court rules in favour of defendant in NFT metaverse copyright case

January 2024

  1. Palworld, Pokémon, and copyright infringement
  2. The New York Times lawsuit: the case and its wider implications

December 2023

  1. Chinese court declares that AI-generated image has copyright
  2. Copyright lawsuit threatens reggaeton genre
  3. High Court rules that Getty v Stability AI case can proceed
  4. Spotify, surveillance, and the price of music

November 2023

  1. Creative Commons and AI training

October 2023

  1. Large language models and copyright, what next?
  2. Asking whether AI outputs are art is asking the wrong question
  3. It’s time to leave Twitter

September 2023

  1. French lawmakers propose new copyright law about generative AI
  2. Can Bill Willingham release ‘Fables’ into the public domain?
  3. Will we ever be able to detect AI usage?

July 2023

  1. Authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
  2. Artificial intelligence parodies

June 2023

  1. Will the real Web3 please stand up?
  2. Downtime and maintenance

May 2023

  1. Using language models in legal higher education
  2. Photographer sues LAION for copyright infringement

April 2023

  1. Victory for Yuga Labs in NFT dispute
  2. Artificial intelligence is neither hype nor utopia

March 2023

  1. Putting Bard and ChatGPT to the test
  2. Looking for a model of the Metaverse
  3. Openness, AI, and the changing creative landscape

February 2023

  1. AI copyright infringement article now available for comment
  2. Hermès wins MetaBirkin NFT lawsuit

January 2023

  1. Artists file class-action lawsuit against Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Midjourney
  2. Why I’m still on Twitter

November 2022

  1. Court in Barcelona issues injunction against Mango’s NFT use in the metaverse
  2. An AI wrote this blog post about AI copyright
  3. There ain’t such thing as the metaverse

October 2022

  1. Copilot: The next stage in the AI copyright wars?
  2. A visit to the House of Lords

September 2022

  1. The AI revolution is now open source
  2. How much should academics engage with the public?

August 2022

  1. Do Bored Apes have a copyright problem?
  2. Copyright infringement in artificial intelligence art

July 2022

  1. Who owns tokens and other digital assets?
  2. DALL·E goes commercial, but what about copyright?
  3. Crypto Winter, or Crypto Ice Age?

June 2022

  1. The machines are here, and we’re not ready

May 2022

  1. August Sander’s photographic archive in NFT copyright dispute

April 2022

  1. Whatever happened to our dream of decentralization?
  2. Will the real Metaverse please stand up?

February 2022

  1. NFTs could have a generative art copyright problem

January 2022

  1. Whoever controls the DAO, controls the book: The strange tale of Jodorowsky’s Dune
  2. What will property look like in the Metaverse?

December 2021

  1. The interface between NFTs and the public domain
  2. Challenges and opportunities in the future of gaming

November 2021

  1. Platform is Law: The cautionary tale of stolen NFTs

September 2021

  1. Ceci n’est pas une pipe: Adventures in NFT-land

August 2021

  1. Blockchain World (A Fable)
  2. Feels Good Man! Pepe, copyright, and NFTs

June 2021

  1. Is GitHub’s Copilot potentially infringing copyright?
  2. Can Sir Tim Berners-Lee sell an NFT of the WWW code?
  3. El Salvador passes law that makes Bitcoin legal tender

May 2021

  1. Creative Commons, commercial use, and NFTs

April 2021

  1. A new twist in the NFT saga: Emily Ratajkowski re-appropriates Richard Prince
  2. What data does Spotify hold about you?

March 2021

  1. What do you buy when you buy an NFT?
  2. One year with Long Covid
  3. Copyfraud and copyright infringement in NFTs
  4. Can copyright teach us anything about NFTs?

February 2021

  1. GameStop, Musk, and the threat to decentralization

January 2021

  1. Trump, Parler, and the internet regulation fallout

December 2020

  1. Revamp image rights to fight deepfakes

November 2020

  1. Make the Web Great Again

September 2020

  1. Time to decolonise the Internet

August 2020

  1. Diary of a Long Covid patient
  2. The stock market looks like the Bitcoin economy, and that’s not a good thing

July 2020

  1. The importance of the Twitter hack should not be missed
  2. Beware the dangers of complacent clicktivism

May 2020

  1. Red Pills and NPCs: How geek culture became political
  2. Zombies and killer robots: has our imagination failed to prepare us for a pandemic?

April 2020

  1. In the age of coronavirus, it’s time to make debunking great again
  2. The limits of decentralization

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