RightsTech Extra

Unresolved: Did the Bartz v. Anthropic Settlement Actually Settle Anything?

We could know more this week

Sep 22 • 

Paul Sweeting

August 2025

Settling Up: The First AI v. Copyright Dominoes Fall

Authors and Anthropic come to terms but raise as many questions as they resolve

Aug 27 • 

Paul Sweeting

Searching Under the Covers

What are your intentions?

Aug 12 • 

Paul Sweeting

July 2025

Access Denied: A New Model For AI Data Licensing

Cloudflare's pay-per-crawl approach could bypass the AI-copyright divide

Jul 8 • 

Paul Sweeting

June 2025

AI, Search, And the Price of Monopoly

As traditional search falls victim to AI, its dependents feel the pain

Jun 30 • 

Paul Sweeting

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Split Decision: Court Rules AI Training Is Fair Use, But Consider The Source

Anthropic both wins and loses in books case

Jun 25 • 

Paul Sweeting

Reddit v. Anthropic; Disney & Universal v. Midjourney: Reshaping the AI Battlefield (Updated)

Rights holders try to avoid the fair use quagmire

Jun 17 • 

Paul Sweeting

Reddit v Anthropic Is One to Watch

Creating an AI licensing system based on access rather than use

Jun 10 • 

Paul Sweeting

AI Regulation: Harder Than It Looks

No one thought, or should have thought, that devising and implementing a coherent and workable regulatory regime for artificial intelligence would be…

Jun 2 • 

Paul Sweeting

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May 2025

On AI & Copyright, No Fair Use, Or Fair Play (Updated)

Mother's Day Massacre in the Madison Building

May 12 • 

Paul Sweeting

Big Tech's Delicate Alliance With Trump

AI and copyright in the balance in Europe

May 2 • 

Paul Sweeting

April 2025

After The Money's Gone: AI, Antitrust, and Big Tech

For Google, Holy Week became an unholy tsuris. Just days before hearings were set to begin in federal court in the remedies phase of the antitrust case…

Apr 23 • 

Paul Sweeting