Music Technology Policy

As Father Callahan said in today’s homily at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, “it is not in forces that we need to begin our search for a just reward of labor, but in persons, in the rights of persons to property, in the right of persons to acknowledgement of the wor...

The Justice Department has entered the consolidated New York Times v. OpenAI litigation with a remarkable proposition dressed up as an ordinary application of fair use: courts should effectively immunize the copying of copyrighted works for AI training.

The Copyright Royalty Board has received another thoughtful comment on the proposed Phonorecords V Subpart B settlement, this one from the Center for Responsible American Economics (CRAE). It is worth reading because CRAE approaches the proposed settlement from an economic perspective and asks a basic question that should matter whenever private parties propose rates that wil...

C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is a satirical novel framed as correspondence from Screwtape, a senior demon, to his inexperienced nephew Wormwood. Screwtape advises him how to tempt and manipulate an ordinary human. By presenting morality from Hell’s pers...