Copyright Law

[Under construction: this page is a collection of posts about copyright law]

Recent Blog posts about Copyright Law

Competition from AI music, Country Girls Make Do (October 15, 2025) – some brief thoughts on competition from AI music.

Skater Beagle and the Puzzle of AI Creativity – a mid length essay that explains where the apparent creativity in generative AI outputs comes from, with implications for copyright law.

Piracy, Proxies, and Performance: Rethinking Books3’s Reported Gains – explaining why a recent article claiming that access to pirated books improves large language model “performance” should not be taken at face value.

Copyright and the AI Action Plan – my March 2025 comments in response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy in relation to the “AI Action Plan”

Copyright Law Textbook

You can download the 2025 edition of my textbook here: Copyright Law in the Age of AI