TikTok may be the perfect crucible in which to exploit the frailties of negative body image and then breed scammers who con millions from people looking to obtain drugs for weight-loss. According...
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has prefaced a renewed interest in site-blocking legislation to combat piracy. Will things be different this time? When the internet industry killed the antip...
https://illusionofmore.com/site-blocking-can-the-u-s-finally-get-it-done/
The Authors Guild, of which I am a member, has filed an amicus brief asking the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm a lower court ruling that Iowa’s book ban law is unconstitutional. And ...
https://illusionofmore.com/book-bans-deserve-opposition-but-not-debate/
About 25 years ago, when my first child was a little kid, I predicted to a friend that by the time that boy was an adult, higher education in the United States would be in crisis—both financial...
https://illusionofmore.com/as-course-materials-prices-drop-dept-of-ed-proposes-a-risky-rule-change/
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselv...
https://illusionofmore.com/pass-the-tiktok-legislation-and-then/
It was hard not to dismiss the headline posted by The Verge: How AI copyright lawsuits could make the whole industry go extinct. The article summarizes a new Decoder podcast hosted by Nilay Pat...
https://illusionofmore.com/decoder-podcast-ai-could-go-extinct-because-fair-use-is-whimsical/
On March 17, Rolling Stone published an article featuring a song called “Soul of the Machine.” Sounding like blues of the early 20th century, the “voice” sings the lyric, “I’m just a ...
Last week, Tennessee passed the ELVIS Act to expand its statutory right of publicity (ROP) law to include voice as a protected aspect of an individual’s “likeness.” In response to artificia...
https://illusionofmore.com/human-voice-gaining-protection-in-confronting-generative-ai/
If it can be difficult to keep up with artists’ rights in the news, that goes double for music. Fortunately, there are some incredible artists who devote as much energy and passion to rights ad...
https://illusionofmore.com/podcast-artists-rights-with-musician-blake-morgan/
Publishers File Brief in Response to Internet Archive Appeal On Friday, the publishers in Hachette, et al. v. Internet Archive filed their response brief opposing the archive’s appeal of its lo...