Publishers File Brief in Response to Internet Archive Appeal On Friday, the publishers in Hachette, et al. v. Internet Archive filed their response brief opposing the archive’s appeal of its loss in district court. IA maintains that its practice of “Controlled Digital Lending” is not copyright infringement under the doctrine of fair use despite the lower court’s fast and resounding ...

I met Bill Westwood last year when he contacted me to very kindly ask if I would like to speak to the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) about copyright and artificial intelligence. I was aware of medical illustration as a specialized field but didn’t know much about it until I drove up to Albany to visit Westwood at his studio. ...

Thus ends the 12th Annual Fair Use Week, and after the Warhol decision, it must be asked whether the parties who invented this holy week of the copyleft intend to continue the farce much longer. As a refresher, the fair use doctrine has been part of the U.S. Copyright Act since 1976 and a subject of judge-made law since at ...

When Internet Archive lost resoundingly in the Hachette (book publishers) case, the court rejected its cockamamie legal theory called controlled digital lending (CDL). Then, when a group of record labels (UMG et al.) filed suit against IA for infringing reproduction, distribution, and performance of sound recordings, I wrote at the time that there’s no way IA has an unfounded theory ...

As the Super Bowl approached and passed, it seemed that one faction of Americans was accusing Taylor Swift of practicing witchcraft on the NFL while another was slagging her for the carbon output of her private jet—reportedly about 8,300 tonnes of CO2e in 2022. And although it is fair to expect owners of private aircraft to fly responsibly, I must ...

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