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Paul Sweeting
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Journalist & analyst specializing in the intersection of media, technology & public policy. Director of the RightsTech Project. https://www.linkedin.com/in/psweeting/
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Trying to decide who has the more punchable face, Scott Bessent, or Kevin Hasset. Both could use some fist-al stimulus.
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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For copyright nerds out there (and you know who you are), my latest.
Chamber Made: The Long Shadow of 'Bartz v. Anthropic' open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
Chamber Made: The Long Shadow of 'Bartz v. Anthropic'
Settlement in the class action lawsuit unsettles tech-world
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November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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So they were right!
October 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Settling Up: The First AI v. Copyright Dominoes Fall
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Settling Up: The First AI v. Copyright Dominoes Fall
Authors and Anthropic come to terms but raise as many questions as they resolve
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August 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Searching Under the Covers
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Searching Under the Covers
What are your intentions?
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August 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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It's 187 degrees or thereabouts here in DC. Bought 2 bottles of wine on way home and put them in passenger seat. When I went around to open that door when I got home, they rolled out, hit the curb & shattered. Got a bad feeling about this weekend.😬
July 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Access Denied: A New Model For AI Data Licensing
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Access Denied: A New Model For AI Data Licensing
Cloudfare's pay-per-crawl approach could bypass the AI-copyright divide
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July 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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New from me.

AI, Search, And the Price of Monopoly open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
AI, Search, And the Price of Monopoly
As traditional search falls victim to AI, its dependents feel the pain
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June 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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A Cartoon from The New Yorker buff.ly/CPA8BSH
June 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Reddit v. Anthropic; Disney & Universal v. Midjourney: Reshaping the AI Battlefield. My latest open.substack.com/pub/rightste...
Reddit v. Anthropic; Disney & Universal v. Midjourney: Reshaping the AI Battlefield
Rights holders try to avoid the fair use quagmire
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June 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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After The Money's Gone: AI, Antitrust, and Big Tech
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After The Money's Gone: AI, Antitrust, and Big Tech
For Google, Holy Week became an unholy tsuris. Just days before hearings were set to begin in federal court in the remedies phase of the antitrust case it lost last year over its search monopoly, a se...
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June 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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On AI & Copyright, No Fair Use, Or Fair Play (Updated)
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On AI & Copyright, No Fair Use, Or Fair Play (Updated)
Mother's Day Massacre in the Madison Building
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June 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Reddit v Anthropic Is One to Watch
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Reddit v Anthropic Is One to Watch
Creating an AI licensing system based on access rather than use
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June 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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AI Regulation: Harder Than It Looks
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AI Regulation: Harder Than It Looks
No one thought, or should have thought, that devising and implementing a coherent and workable regulatory regime for artificial intelligence would be easy, or without controversy.
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June 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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That giant sucking sound you hear is capital fleeing America.
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Bond Rout Stirs Broader Fears About Market Strains
Treasurys, normally a haven, have sold off sharply this week.
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April 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Funny how the ban was passed by congress, signed by president and upheld by SCOTUS, and everyone just pretends like none of that happened
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Trump Delays TikTok Ban Deadline Again, Saying Deal ‘Requires More Work’
TikTok has been painted as a national security threat to the U.S. by many American lawmakers because of its ownership by China's ByteDance.
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April 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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You know a technology has arrived when it's being used for porn
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People Are Choosing AI Sex Workers Over the Real Thing
Creators of AI influencers and sex workers can earn a ridiculous amount of money, without ever stepping in front of a camera.
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April 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Breaking the News: Google Says It Can Do Without It
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Breaking the News: Google Says It Can Do Without It
Facing pressure from policymakers and news publishers in the EU as it works to comply with a provision of the 2019 Copyright Directive requiring payment to news outlets for displaying excerpts in sear...
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March 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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OpenAI Calls Fair Use A Matter of National Security In New Filing
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OpenAI Calls Fair Use A Matter of National Security In New Filing
Haunted by specter of DeepSeek and a Red under the AGI bed
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March 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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AI, Copyright and Piracy: An Open and Cloze Case
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AI, Copyright and Piracy: An Open and Cloze Case
New study brings a bit of empiricism to the debate
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March 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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LyricFind Sues Rival Musixmatch Over 'Fractional' Monopoly
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LyricFind Sues Rival Musixmatch Over 'Fractional' Monopoly
Music lyric provider LyricFind filed an antitrust lawsuit against its main rival Musixmatch and its private equity parent TDG Global in U.S.
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March 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Meta Dodges a Bullet, But Still Under Fire in AI Copyright Case
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Meta Dodges a Bullet, But Still Under Fire in AI Copyright Case
Week of Feb. 24: Amazon Partners with Suno, Billionaires Battle the EU, and More
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February 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Crawling From the RAGage
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Crawling From the RAGage
Chegg Challenges Google Overviews Over Antitrust
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February 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Maybe if we let Elon have another toy he would leave the rest of us alone.
February 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I'm more worried about the 19 yr old college dropout transferring all our tax return data directly to Elon Musk. I don't have to use DeepSeek but I have to pay taxes.

DeepSeek coding has the capability to transfer users' data directly to the Chinese government news.google.com/rss/articles...
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February 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM