My Q&A with Puck's Matt Belloni, and why OpenAI's Sora 2 might be Hollywood's biggest copyright test since YouTube. Up now on Copyright Lately.
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Trump just lost a copyright lawsuit claiming ownership over his own recorded words in the Woodward interviews. Big win for journalists—and a reminder how copyright can be used not to protect IP, but to control unflattering speech. Now on Copyright Lately:
https://copyrightlately.com/trump-loses-copyright-fight-over-woodward-interview-recordings/
https://copyrightlately.com/trump-loses-copyright-fight-over-woodward-interview-recordings/
Should copyright protect creative output—or the humans who create it? Two judges just revealed the philosophical fault line that will define AI's legal future. Full story, up now on Copyright Lately:
https://copyrightlately.com/apprentice-or-adversary-judges-split-on-ai-and-copyright/
Ethan Klein once defended reaction videos as fair use. Now he’s suing Twitch streamers for barely reacting at all. Bong rips, blank stares, and bathroom breaks take center stage in the year's most ironic copyright lawsuit. Up now on Copyright Lately:
https://copyrightlately.com/ethan-klein-files-copyright-lawsuits-over-lazy-reaction-videos/
"Show, Don't Tell" takes center stage in Disney & Universal's lawsuit against Midjourney. After 40+ AI copyright cases got stuck on training data, this one puts the outputs front and center. Full story and why it matters, up now on @copyrightlately:
https://copyrightlately.com/why-the-studios-midjourney-lawsuit-is-different/
A constitutional showdown over who controls the Copyright Office heads to court tomorrow. Full story now on Copyright Lately.
https://copyrightlately.com/perlmutters-lawsuit-is-about-more-than-just-getting-her-job-back/
The day before Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter was fired, the Copyright Office quickly and quietly dropped a major report on AI and fair use. I break down the timing, the fallout, and my 5 biggest takeaways—up now on Copyright Lately
With tariffs, trade wars, and treaty tensions dominating the headlines, it’s only fitting that an international copyright flare-up has landed in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Check out my “amicus blog” on why the court needs to reverse Vetter v. Resnik.
https://copyrightlately.com/fifth-circuit-amicus-blog-vetter-v-resnik/
NEW: A high-stakes copyright battle over To Kill a Mockingbird is quietly unfolding in the 2nd and 7th Circuits, testing the limits of the important but rarely litigated “derivative works exception” to copyright termination. Up now on Copyright Lately: 🔗 https://copyrightlately.com/to-kill-a-termination-right-mockingbird-battle-heats-up/
I was busy switching firms. The courts were busy issuing copyright rulings. Here's everything I missed over the past 3 weeks—Rule 11 sanctions, AI lawsuits, disco flashbacks, and more—all tidied up in one place before I sweep them behind the couch.
https://copyrightlately.com/whats-up-spring-cleaning-edition/
