Newsletter, February 10
Antitrust: Gail Slater Appointed to Antitrust Division
President Trump has made an appointment that has Big Tech panicked (Fox News/Rachel Bovard)
Trump taps Gail Slater to lead DOJ antitrust division (The Hill/Julia Shapero)
Performing Rights Organizations
U.S. Copyright Office: Issues Related to Performing Rights Organizations Comments due April 11.
Careful What You Wish For: Consent Decrees, Compulsory Licenses and the Right to Say No (Artist Rights Watch/Chris Castle)
Artificial Intelligence
The British Public Wants Stricter AI Rules Than Its Government Does (Time/Billy Perigo)
UK Government’s AI Legislation is Defeated in the House of Lords (MusicTechPolicy/Chris Castle)
Trump’s AI ambitions and China’s DeepSeek overshadow an AI summit in Paris (AP/Sylvie Corbet and Kelvin Chan)
Copyright
The Copyright War Was Never Just About Copyright (The Illusion of More/David Newhoff)
@MarshaBlackburn, @RepDarrellIssa, Colleagues Reintroduce American Music Fairness Act #AMFA Ensure Artist Pay For Radio Play #IRespectMusic (MusicTechPolicy/Editor Charlie)
Songwriters Who Unknowingly Signed Away Their Rights Finally Get a Real Second Chance: The Promise of Vetter v. Resnik (Variety/Tim Kappel and Loren Wells
Books
Chaos Under Heaven:Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogan
War Without Rules: China’s Playbook for Global Domination by General Rob Spalding
