Artist Rights Symposium V connects the fight over data centers, eminent domain and community resources with artists’ fight to ...

Ghost tickets, predatory resale, and the battle over who controls the live-music experience take center stage at Artist ...

In this short video, Gwendolyn Seale and Artist Rights Institute Director Chris Castle preview “The 39 Steps,” a Symposium V ...

Deadline for SXSW Panel Picker is today! Please vote for my creator and startup licensing panel at SXSW.EDU. If the latest Spotify litigation shows anything it’s the importance of licensing education.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

I was grateful to Hypebot for publishing my 2026 music‑industry predictions, which focused on the legal and structural pressures already reshaping the business. For regular readers, I’m reposting ...

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 ...