New year, new map of AI copyright lawsuits! All 38 of them. For PDF with links to each docket, visit here: chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/01/03/upd…

Court rejects James Howell’s lawsuit seeking to allow him to excavate landfill that allegedly has the hard drive he mistakenly threw away in 2013 with keys to access his 8,000 bitcoin, now worth $765 million. Tragic. bitcoiniseatingtheworld.com/2025/01/11/how…

Huge legal decision today: the SEC under Gary Gensler acted arbitrarily in denying Coinbase’s petition for rulemaking on cryptocurrency. SEC must explain its position more. Judge Bibas warns SEC in his concurrence of potential violation of Constitution in failing to give people

Judge Bibas rebukes SEC under Gary Gensler for lack of transparency re cryptocurrency treatment. Link to concurrence in Coinbase v SEC: bitcoiniseatingtheworld.com/wp-content/upl…

Saylor alert ‼️ Wall Street Journal has a long feature story on the one and only Michael Saylor Are you bullish? 🐂 wsj.com/finance/curren…

Ok expect big news from Michael Saylor on Monday…

Did you watch the Crypto Summit? Pres. Trump gave the funniest line: "From this day on, America will follow the rule, ... Never sell your Bitcoin... "That's a little phrase they have. I don't know if that's right or not. Who the hell knows , right." [APPLAUSE.]

Pres. Trump jokes about whether it’s actually true you should never sell your Bitcoin. Who knows? Full video : bitcoiniseatingtheworld.com/2025/03/07/at-…

If the Copyright Office can issue its report on fair use in pre-publication form, I’ll do the same with my article, “Fair Use and the Origin of AI Training.” Forthcoming in Houston Law Review 2025. My article shows why Copyright Office is wrong about fair use. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Updated my article to respond to the Copyright Office’s endorsement of copyright dilution as market harm under Factor 4 of fair use. It’s not only “uncharted territory,” it’s unconstitutional. Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Should Dr. Ben Zhao be disqualified as an expert from the Andersen v Stability AI, given his deployment of adversarial tools to poison image data that might be used to train diffusion image models? chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/06/06/sar…

Lots of new AI research on memorization by models. I weigh in on how courts should treat unintentional memorization of content from training datasets. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/06/08/sch…

We prepared an infographic to diagram $MSTR strategy for raising capital to fund its Bitcoin purchases. What do you think? Let us know if we are missing something or something is off. Thx.

We came up with this infographic to show Strategy’s business model as a Bitcoin treasury. Welcome any comments or suggestions for edits. Thanks 🙏🏽

Updated map of AI copyright lawsuits. 42 lawsuits with Disney v Midjourney. Download the PDF with links to each docket below: chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/06/12/upd…

Third Circuits accepts interlocutory appeal of Judge Bibas’s decision rejecting fair use in Thompson Reuters v ROSS Intelligence. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/06/17/thi…

Midjourney launches video generator. But it enabled me to create video with characters of Disney or Universal. Risky business? Full story: chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/06/20/a-w…

Judge Alsup gives split decision: Anthropic AI training copies were fair use, exceedingly transformative. But Anthropic’s pirated books to build a permanent library are infringing. Trial on damages, including willfulness!

I also spoke yesterday on AI national priority before Senate subcommittee hearing here, citing David Sacks

Pres. Trump supports fair use in AI training. Notes the national interest and how China won’t require copyright licenses for training data.