• USCO Rejects Registration of AI Generated Work

    USCO Rejects Registration of AI Generated Work

    The U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) will NOT allow registration of AI-generated images as part of larger graphic novel registration. The generative works were not properly disclaimed, and therefore the USCO is reissuing a certificate to fix and limit the original registration. “We conclude that Ms. [sic] Kashtanova is the author of the Work’s text as…

  • Oral arguments take place today in Twitter v. Taamneh. Here’s why it matters for creators and the creator economy…

    Oral arguments take place today in Twitter v. Taamneh. Here’s why it matters for creators and the creator economy…

    It’s day two! Today, February 21, 2023, oral arguments take place in Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh. Here’s why this matters for creators and the creator economy… The second of two cases before the Supreme Court is Twitter v. Taamneh.  Twitter v. Taamneh goes beyond Section 230 (and yesterday’s Gonzalez v. Google case) and implicates Section 2333 of the…

  • Oral arguments take place today in Gonzalez v. Google. Here’s why it matters for creators and the Creator Economy…

    Oral arguments take place today in Gonzalez v. Google. Here’s why it matters for creators and the Creator Economy…

    Today, oral arguments take place in Gonzalez v. Google LLC. Here’s why this matters for creators and the creator economy… Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act became law in the 1990s and specifically provides a liability shield for internet service providers, which includes platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and Meta, from being publishers of user-generated content. The first of two…

  • Digital Services Act (DSA) Drops… VLOPs numbers and more!

    February 17, 2023, marked the end of the 3-month deadline for social media platforms operating in the EU to report the number of active end users on their websites, a requirement under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). Based on the reported user numbers, the Commission will make an assessment as to whether a platform…

  • Exploring the EU’s 4-part AI Human Authorship Test

    How will the U.S. Copyright Office decide to handle AI-assisted works of authorship? The EU’s 4-part test may provide some guidance… In November 2020, the EU published a final report “Trends and developments in artificial intelligence – Challenges to the intellectual property rights framework : final report”. The report examines copyright and patent protection in Europe for…

  • EU Transparency Centre’s Insights into Social Media Misinformation…

    How effectively are social media platforms combatting misinformation content? We now have the data to find out… The EU’s Transparency Centre is now live with a dashboard to explore reports from 30 major online platform signatories (including Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok, Twitter). The reports include loads of data to unpack, such as: 🔥 Google indicates…

  • Creator Economy Law – Issue #20

    Creator Economy Law – Issue #20

    Legal resources for podcasts, Meta’s scared of Apple (for multiple reasons), TikTok v Kia, Google’s pre-bunking efforts, AI developments, and more! This is Creator Economy Law, a newsletter dedicated to exploring and analyzing the legal issues surrounding the creator economy, creators, and internet platforms. If you enjoy what you’re reading, share with friends, and invite…

  • Creator Economy Law – Issue #19

    Creator Economy Law – Issue #19

    AI has arrived, except at the Copyright Office, what the TikTok ban would actually mean, Meltwater’s Global Digital Report, and more! This is Creator Economy Law, a newsletter dedicated to exploring and analyzing the legal issues surrounding the creator economy, creators, and internet platforms. If you enjoy what you’re reading, share with friends, and invite…

  • So TikTok gets removed from app stores… then what?

    U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) called on Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet Inc. and Google CEO Sundar Pichai to remove TikTok from their app stores immediately given its unacceptable risk to U.S. national security. A copy of the letter is below. How would this play out? The move would be the most direct method of cutting off the U.S. population from the…

  • Creator Economy Law – Issue #18

    Creator Economy Law – Issue #18

    UK halts broad AI copyright exception, New digital economy taxes, Social media brand usage guide, Copyright infringement settlement checklist, + more! This is Creator Economy Law, a newsletter dedicated to exploring and analyzing the legal issues surrounding the creator economy, creators, and internet platforms. If you enjoy what you’re reading, share with friends, and invite…