Newsletter, February 10

Antitrust: Gail Slater Appointed to Antitrust Division

President Trump has made an appointment that has Big Tech panicked (Fox News/Rachel Bovard)

Trump taps Gail Slater to lead DOJ antitrust division (The Hill/Julia Shapero)

Performing Rights Organizations

U.S. Copyright Office: Issues Related to Performing Rights Organizations Comments due April 11.

Careful What You Wish For: Consent Decrees, Compulsory Licenses and the Right to Say No (Artist Rights Watch/Chris Castle)

Artificial Intelligence

The British Public Wants Stricter AI Rules Than Its Government Does (Time/Billy Perigo)

UK Government’s AI Legislation is Defeated in the House of Lords (MusicTechPolicy/Chris Castle)

Trump’s AI ambitions and China’s DeepSeek overshadow an AI summit in Paris (AP/Sylvie Corbet and Kelvin Chan)

Copyright

The Copyright War Was Never Just About Copyright (The Illusion of More/David Newhoff)

@MarshaBlackburn, @RepDarrellIssa, Colleagues Reintroduce American Music Fairness Act #AMFA Ensure Artist Pay For Radio Play #IRespectMusic (MusicTechPolicy/Editor Charlie)

Songwriters Who Unknowingly Signed Away Their Rights Finally Get a Real Second Chance: The Promise of Vetter v. Resnik (Variety/Tim Kappel and Loren Wells

Books

Chaos Under Heaven:Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogan

War Without Rules: China’s Playbook for Global Domination by General Rob Spalding

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