Reporting, analysis and practical guides connected to copyright.
Denmark is amending its Copyright Act to give every person a consent-based, copyright-style right over AI-generated imitations of their face and voice, enforced via the EU DSA and expected to take effect in July 2026. Critics warn that using copyright, an alienable economic right, to protect identity risks commodifying likeness.
A breakdown of California's AB 2013 training-data law and xAI's constitutional lawsuit to overturn it.
AI search engines are facing a wave of copyright litigation. The New York Times and CNN have sued Perplexity over scraping and verbatim reproduction, including paywalled content its Comet browser reads past client-side walls. The .5B Bartz v. Anthropic settlement showed piracy carries huge consequences, and Perplexity's Comet Plus revenue-share program concedes that web content was never free.
Reddit sued Perplexity and three scraping firms (Oxylabs, SerpApi, AWMProxy) in October 2025, alleging they bypassed access controls to harvest Reddit content from Google search results. Crucially, Reddit leans on the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision (17 U.S.C. 1201) rather than copyright, sidestepping fair-use defenses. A win could force platforms industry-wide to wall off user content and pursue licensing.
