Ghost tickets, predatory resale, and the battle over who controls the live-music experience take center stage at Artist ...
Artist Rights Symposium V connects the fight over data centers, eminent domain and community resources with artists’ fight to ...
In this short video, Gwendolyn Seale and Artist Rights Institute Director Chris Castle preview “The 39 Steps,” a Symposium V ...
Meta’s roughly $17 billion social-media addiction settlement promises sweeping protections for children and teens. But viewed through the inverted moral logic of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, ...
If you’ve been following the Taylor Swift situation with her former label, you’ve probably seen the unsurprising news that Taylor plans to re-record some or all of her prior catalog. This raises the ...
Anyone who lived through the Dot Bomb era is reluctant to be branded a “Luddite” by the same people who were using technology to enrich themselves with one of the great free rides. But the humans who ...
C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is a satirical novel framed as correspondence from Screwtape, a senior demon, to his inexperienced nephew Wormwood. Screwtape advises him how to tempt and manipulate ...
Every now and then you see one of those cases that makes you say which idiot thought it was a good idea to litigate this catastrophe rather than settle? Two juries—on opposite sides of the ...
The Justice Department has a problem with Judge Vince Chhabria’s opinion in Kadrey v. Meta. Actually, it has two problems. First, DOJ likes Judge Chhabria’s conclusion that training a large language ...
The Justice Department has entered the consolidated New York Times v. OpenAI litigation with a remarkable proposition dressed up as an ordinary application of fair use: courts should effectively ...
The data-center backlash has crossed an important threshold. It is no longer principally a collection of zoning disputes, transmission fights, tax-policy arguments, and local environmental campaigns.
Our friend Helienne Lindvall, President of the European Composers and Songwriters Alliance, spoke at on a panel at the ESNS Festival in the Netherlands recently. The topic was “Moneymon: The Streaming ...