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Creator Spotlight with YouTuber and Artist Tarra Lu April 10, 2025
This week, we’re pleased to introduce you to YouTuber and Artist Tarra Lu. After reading her spotlight blog, subscribe to her YouTube channel and follow her on Instagram. What was the inspiration behind becoming a creator? […] The post Creator Spotlight with YouTuber and Artist Tarra Lu appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
March 2025 Roundup of Copyright News April 1, 2025
In March, the Copyright Office launched its study of the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) while in the courts, key copyright and AI cases continued to move forward. Here is a […] The post March 2025 Roundup of Copyright News appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
The Global Creative Community Stands Unified Against Unchecked AI Use March 27, 2025
Generative AI (GenAI) has ignited a revolution in content creation, enabling anyone to generate images, music, text, and videos with just a few prompts. While this innovation offers exciting possibilities, […] The post The Global Creative Community Stands Unified Against Unchecked AI Use appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

Amazing Artists and Cultural Destinations in Sperryville, Virginia April 2, 2025
Measured by population, Sperryville, VA, is a tiny town of around 350 people. Measured by creativity per capita, Sperryville is a terrific place that pretty much anyone would be thrilled to visit. Francis Thornton, Jr., founded the Piedmont town in 1820, after inheriting land that an ancestor had acquired from the Northern Neck Land Proprietary... […]
Exciting News from Slamdance 2025! March 19, 2025
This year marked an important milestone for Slamdance, the beloved festival for indie films with budgets under $1 million. Since its founding as an alternative to Sundance in 1995, Slamdance had also been held in Park City, Utah. But on its 30th anniversary, Slamdance relocated to a new home, Los Angeles. As CEO Peter Baxter... […]
How Animator and Storyboard Artist Jackson Read Conquers the “Blank Page” March 12, 2025
Across all creative disciplines, artists are faced with the same obstacle at the beginning of their projects: the blank page. For many of us, there is nothing more daunting than staring at a sheet of paper and wondering: “How do I begin?” For animator and storyboard artist Jackson Read, this step is half of the... […]

First Round of AI Fair Use Fight Goes to the Copyright Owner – But Will It Stick? February 28, 2025
On February 11, 2025, a Federal Judge issued summary judgement in one of the plethora of cases involving Artificial Intelligence, copyright infringement and fair use. The case, Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH v. Ross Intelligence, Inc., involves the use of artificial intelligence to train a legal database, using copies of some 25,000 “headnotes” from the […]
The “Art of No Deal” Will Cost Trump Plenty in Copyright Infringement Case September 20, 2024
On September 13, 2024, a Federal Court Judge issued summary judgement against Donald Trump and his campaign in the long running copyright infringement dispute with Barbadian based musician Eddy Grant over the Trump campaign’s use of Grant’s song “Electric Avenue” in a Trump campaign video. To anyone who read the Judge’s initial ruling denying Trump’s […]
Appellate Court Rules That “Sophisticated Plaintiffs” Are Entitled to Equal Protection Under the Copyright Laws August 29, 2024
It’s one of those principles that should not need to be debated: people are entitled to equal protection under the law. Yet strangely, one Federal Court went out of its way to penalize a litigant, because they were a “sophisticated copyright litigator” causing the dismissal of the case. Now, the Second Circuit has weighed in […]

The US National Trade Estimates (NTE), Trump’s “Reciprocal” Tariffs and IP/Cultural Industries April 11, 2025
Image: Shutterstock On so-called “Liberation Day”, April 2, a day that, to echo FDR, will live in infamy, (the day the world trading system was turned upside down and the US shot itself in the foot, or head) Donald Trump unveiled a limited list of “reciprocal” tariffs in a Rose Garden game show format. Like […]
The Resilience of Independent Bookstores (My Visit to Livraria Lello, Porto) April 6, 2025
Photo: Author Much has been written about the decline or even the imminent demise of independent bookstores, yet most of them continue to survive, even thrive. In the same vein as the comment famously attributed to Mark Twain (“the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”), so too have independent bookstores survived the onslaught of […]
Copyright, Cultural Issues and Canada’s General Election, 2025 March 29, 2025
Image: Shutterstock (AI generated) As we complete the first few days in what is the shortest election campaign in Canadian history, the minimum 37 days required by law, where do the copyright and cultural industries stand with respect to electoral platforms and public consciousness? Given the overwhelming focus on dealing with economic and even potential […]

Entertainment Law Update Episode 176 is now live! January 29, 2025
This month, we’re covering the Supreme Court’s ruling on the TikTok ban, major works entering the public domain, M. Night Shyamalan’s copyright victory, the latest in AI copyright disputes, and more! Don’t miss out—listen now at https://entertainmentlawupdate.com/176. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - […]
The Prince Files May 24, 2023
The Latest episode of my Entertainment Law podcast, Entertainment Law Update, is now available for your enjoyment. Listen here, or subscribe and download in your favorite podcast listening app. Show notes are located at http://entertainmentlawupdate.com/157 In this episode: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - […]
Metabirkins, Everly Bros., Gonzales v. Google, and more. February 23, 2023
The Latest episode of my Entertainment Law podcast, Entertainment Law Update, is now available for your enjoyment. Listen here, or subscribe and download in your favorite podcast listening app. Show notes are located at www.entertainmentlawupdate.com/154 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - […]

FADPA Site Blocking bill introduced in US February 6, 2025
US Rep Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California, has introduced H.R. 791, the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (or FADPA) to prevent foreign-run pirate websites from operating in the US by […]
Global sports streamer buys Foxtel January 3, 2025
The global sports streaming service DAZN has agreed to buy a majority stake in the Australian pay-TV giant Foxtel and its subsidiary streaming services Kayo, Binge and Hubbl. The $3.4bn deal, which […]
Major sports piracy ring shut down by ACE January 3, 2025
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has shut down an illicit sports streaming site which logged 812 million visits over the past 12 months. ACE’s sporting members, including beIN […]

Meta AI ‘Piracy’ Lawsuit: Publishers and Professors Challenge Fair Use Defense April 14, 2025
As Meta defends its AI training practices in court, major publishers and copyright law experts are weighing in against the company. An amicus brief from publishers highlights Meta's alleged reliance on pirated book archives including Anna's Archive and Z-Library. Separately, a brief from law professors argues that Meta's unauthorized copying to train Llama is an […]
Block Mirror: Dystopian Site-Blocking Triggers Circumvention Innovation April 13, 2025
Site blocking and similar censorship measures are vulnerable to circumvention, helping to popularize VPNs and other encrypted solutions all over the world. That includes Spain, where LaLiga is ramping up its pirate site blocking efforts and at the same time (and with the court's blessing) rendering thousands of innocent sites inaccessible due to overblocking. People […]
Domain Registry Investigates Spain’s Piracy Overblocking Damage April 12, 2025
Under a court order obtained by LaLiga and Telefonica, Spanish ISPs now conduct broad blocking of live pirated sports streams. These measures target shared Cloudflare infrastructure and have many third-party intermediaries concerned due to widespread overblocking. The Catalan (.cat) domain registry is actively monitoring domains for fallout and says it reserves the right to take […]