Newsletter, January 20
Los Angeles Wildfires
Live Nation and Crew Nation Global Relief Fund Commit $1 Million to Support Los Angeles Music Community Impacted by Wildfires (Digital Music News/Ashley King)
LA Relief Concerts, Donations, Help For Musicians & More (Hypebot/Bruce Houghton) Updated regularly
TikTok Shutdown
Supreme Court Unanimous Ruling Upholding TikTok Ban (Per Curiam)
Bytedance owned/affiliated apps that have been/may be taken down depending on day of the week:
TikTok is SOPA Take 3: Big Tech’s Human Shield Strategy on Full Display (MusicTechPolicy/Chris Castle)
TikTok Stops Working as US Ban Comes into Force (BBC/Aoife Walsh)
TikTok is Offline in United States after Supreme Court Upholds Ban (NPR/Bobby Allyn)
“Terrifying”: Critics Blast TikTok for “Sucking Up to Trump” (Huffington Post/Ben Blanchet)
After A TikTok Ban, Could Gaming Overlord Tencent Be Targeted Next? (Forbes/Paul Tassi)
Artificial Intelligence
Exhibits show Meta employees apparently discussing removal of copyright management information from materials from some works in dataset(s) (ChatGPT Is Eating the World)
Open consultation, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (UK Intellectual Property Office)
Recommendation urging UK copyright overhaul is ‘straight from tech playbook’ (Charting Gen AI/Graham Lovelace)
UK regulators could burst the Google bubble (UnHerd/Andrew Orlowski)
Copyright
Copyright in Congress: 2024 Year in Review (Copyright Alliance/Keith Kupferschmid