Last week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion regarding Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It may be the strongest affirmation to date that the statute does not provide a blanket liability shield for all social platforms regardless of their conduct. Specifically, §230(c)(1) only immunizes platforms for liability that may arise from other parties’ speech, not ...
It is unoriginal to refer to Donald Trump as a useful idiot, but the question as to whose idiot invokes both plausible and fantastical theories combined with sundry lampoons on social media. That Trump is Putin’s lapdog, for example, remains a popular theme, but Gil Duran, writing for The New Republic, makes a solid case that Trumpism, and specifically the ...
Ever since the generative artificial intelligence (GAI) controversy began heating up, I’ve had several conversations with friends and colleagues who are voice actors and have had to disappoint them by repeating the fact that copyright law does not protect a person’s “likeness,” which includes one’s voice. And I’ve had similar conversations with colleagues focused on replication of likeness for the ...
A little-known Senate resolution called the Local Radio Freedom Act (LRFA) is a clever move by whoever thought of it. It has no force of law but instead asks Congress to sign a pledge to enshrine an unfair and unfounded policy whereby terrestrial radio broadcasters shall never pay royalties to musical artists. Why? Because that’s how it’s always been. In ...
On July 11, Senators Cantwell, Blackburn, and Heinrich introduced a bill called the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfake (COPIED) Media Act. One of many AI related bills in Congress, the heart of COPIED is transparency in artificial intelligence through implementation of content provenance information (CPI). COPIED requires development of industry standards to create “machine-readable information documenting ...
