Justin Hendrix

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman delivers the keynote address during the OpenAI developers conference at Fort Mason on September 29, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Friends of the Court Flock to the OpenAI Copyright Fight

Maria Buza

Aishwarya Vaithyanathan

Image of map and computer language over binary codes on server racks in server room.

Global Digital Policy Roundup: July 2026

Tyler Whitmer

Ben Rashkovich

A blurred black-and-white portrait of a man on the left, with the xAI company logo displayed on a screen to the right against a black background.

What Data Was Your AI Trained On? xAI Doesn't Want You To Know

Thomas W. Malone

Frank Pasquale

March 10, 2026: The London Book Fair (LBF) at Kensington Olympia. Names of authors in an otherwise blank book titled Don't Steal This Book protesting against AI companies taking authors’ works. (Matthew Chattle/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

March 10, 2026: The London Book Fair (LBF) at Kensington Olympia. Names of authors in an otherwise blank book titled 

 protesting against AI companies taking authors’ works. (Matthew Chattle/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Copyright Law Wasn’t Built for the AI Era. We Need ‘Learnright.'

Martha Dark

LONDON, UK—NOVEMBER 15, 2025: Panorama of Google logo sign on door of HQ building in Kings Cross.

The UK Just Said No to Google's AI News Grab. Who's Next?

Laurel Kilgour

Illustration of a human head with a black hole inside it.

The Founders’ Case for Human Authorship in the Age of AI

James Ball

The logo of Anthropic is displayed on a smartphone screen in front of another of the company's logos in Creteil, France, on March 27, 2026. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via AP)

Anthropic Code Crisis Creates Copyright Contradiction

Brad Carson

President Donald Trump arrives for the White House AI Summit at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., on July 23. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

President Donald Trump arrives for the White House AI Summit at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., on July 23. (

Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian

How the AI Framework Breaks Trump's Promise to Kids, Artists and Communities

Ben Lennett

Trump and GOP Lawmakers Push for New National AI Legislation

James Paisley

An anonymous figure examines handwritten notes overlaid with a blue light projection resembling a virtual reality interface. The projection brings the notes to life, highlighting details such as a reference to the intricate ceiling of King’s College Chapel and a diagram of a man encircled by a series of numbers, blending historical imagery with futuristic technology.

Detail from Puppeteering Virtual Reality by Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund / 

AI and the Future of Artistic Labor

Luke Hogg

Nick Garcia

An older black woman in a leather jacket and short hair is laughing with her friend, an older white woman in a zebra print blouse with bobbed hair and sunglasses on her head are both laughing. They are standing in front of a display of past technological inventions - a computer server, a telephone and a wireless radio. The white woman is holding a mobile phone, chat ChatGPT is loaded on the screen. The women are comparing ChatGPT to previous technological breakthroughs.

New and unprecedented, is it? by Ada Jušić & Eleonora Lima (KCL) / 

Copyright and AI Policy Needs Precision, Not Panic

Robert Diab

A black keyboard at the bottom of the picture has an open book on it, with red words in labels floating on top, with a letter A balanced on top of them. The perspective makes the composition form a kind of triangle from the keyboard to the capital A. The AI filter makes it look like a messy, with a kind of cartoon style.

The Missing Fair Use Argument in the Copyright Battle Over AI Summaries

Daphne Keller

A stylized collage-style graphic showing a halftone hand holding a smartphone. Around it are red speech-bubble shapes, small black quotation-mark icons, and abstract design elements such as grid patterns, torn paper textures, and a red lightning-bolt symbol.

How the Meaning of 'Publicly Accessible' Shapes Researcher Data Rights Under the DSA

Giovana Fleck

A tic-tac-toe board with human faces as digital blocks, symbolizing how AI works on pre-existing, biased online data for information processing and decision-making.

Amritha R Warrier & AI4Media / Better Images of AI / tic tac toe / CC-BY 4.0

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