No doubt by this point you have seen the headlines about the U.S. District Court’s June 23rd order (the “June 23rd Order”) in the matter of Bartz v. Anthropic PBC (US Dist. Ct. N.D. California Docket 3:24-cv-05417-WHA). In the abstract, the fact pattern is a familiar one by now for those who are following the copyright related litigation initiated by authors against the artificial intelligence developers: the developer copies legally protected works at scale without any license or payment to the rights holders, and uses those protected works to train software.
The Music Modernization Act Ultimately Benefits Musical Creators
One of the rarest of events happened in Washington, DC: a unanimous Congressional approval of a large piece of legislation: an affirmative 100 - 0 vote in the Senate and a 415 - 0 vote in the House. On October 11, 2018, the Orrin G. Hatch–Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act was signed into law.
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