The government’s lawsuit against REPS & Company exposes an alleged industrial-scale ticket scalping operation. But who ...

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 ...

Late last year, thieves disguised as construction workers broke into the Louvre during broad daylight, grabbed more than $100 million worth of crown jewels, and roared off on their motorbikes into the ...

On April 14, 2026, federal District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in Southern District of New York handed down one of the most significant copyright rulings in recent memory, ordering the shadow library Anna’s ...

In a recent post I argued that California’s speculative ticketing bill, AB 1349, represents an important step toward restoring basic honesty to the ticket resale market. The bill targets a practice ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a lot of discussion at the moment about a business scheme called “speculative ticketing” sometimes called “take order” tickets (compared to “in hand” tickets). The Government Accountability ...

If you saw the adverb “forever” in a contract, would it give you pause? It would me—I would wonder who allowed that to slip through. As text-to-audio generative AI models desperately try to normalize ...

The Copyright Royalty Judges have announced that the new COLA-adjusted minimum statutory mechanical royalty rate for 2026 is 13.1¢ for physical and downloads, up ...