Meta’s $17 Billion Escape Hatch – Music Technology Policy
C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is a satirical novel framed as correspondence from Screwtape, a senior demon, to his inexperienced nephew...
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DATA CENTER BACKLASH SITREP 8/5/26 – Music Technology Policy
Texas Transmission Revolt Goes Mainstream as Willie Nelson Joins Opposition “I grew up in Abbott, and I still have a...
AI Music Governance Takes a Step Forward – Music Technology Policy
One of the persistent criticisms of the music industry is that it struggles to reach consensus on difficult issues. That...
National AI Data Center Backlash SITREP—July 13, 2026 – Music Technology Policy
We survey the growing national backlash against hyperscale AI data center development, including transmission infrastructure, eminent domain, secrecy, and local...
The Show-Me State Meets the Ghost in the Meyer AI Machine in the New Safe Harbor Michael Corleone Style – Music Technology Policy
There’s a club in DC that may or may not exist whose members are guys who do things with stuff....
Where Was the Board? – Music Technology Policy
Every now and then you see one of those cases that makes you say which idiot thought it was a...
One More Thing About Perplexity – Music Technology Policy
Perplexity’s motion to dismiss in its defense against the New York Times and Chicago Tribune tries to narrow the cases,...
Trump’s “Ratepayer Protection” Pitch Becomes a Private Power Plan for AI — But Grassroots Revolt Won’t Fade – Music Technology Policy
Across the United States from the Texas Hill Country to Northern Virginia, from Nevada to the Carolinas, communities have been...
The Copyright Restatement Starts to Crumble – Music Technology Policy
Readers will recall that I’ve posted a few times over the years about Pamela Samuelson and her American Law Institute...
Oppression is in the Eye of the Beholder – Music Technology Policy
The current case of Kaiser v. StubHub (No. 1:2024cv00044 (JLR) SDNY 2024) highlights the importance of arbitration clauses in online agreements. This is...
