From the Techdirt Sycophants Department In his post of May 28, Mike Masnick dutifully opened his hymnal and joined the chorus in a rendition of “How to Criticize the CASE Act,” lending his bel canto to the refrain that the new law would create a “copyright trolling court.”  As explained here and here, this is an inscrutable criticism because the ...

“Solicitude for certain current Internet practices fails to acknowledge the troubling effect the server rule has had on creators and copyright owners, particularly photographers, whose works become subject to mass unauthorized and uncompensated exploitation through third-party embedding.  By converting the display right into an atrophied appendage of the reproduction right, the server rule ignores Congress’s endeavor to ensure that the ...

There should be little doubt that the video clip doctored to make Speaker Pelosi look drunk should be seen as a sign of new hazards to come in the digitally-enhanced war on reality.  The video is not even very sophisticated compared to what is actually possible right now with technology like “deepfakes,” and we can expect to see far more ...

Remember when it was considered axiomatic to call the internet is the greatest gift to democracy in history? Not so much … ...

At the same AI and copyright round-table referred to in my last post, Stephen Carlisle of Nova Southeastern University posed this question:  Is the application of “transformative” analysis under the fair use doctrine threatening to extinguish the derivative works right?  This grabbed my attention, partly because it jibed with comments I made in at least two posts about Brammer v. ...

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