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At present, the Register of Copyrights is appointed by the Librarian of Congress and answers to that office. H.R. 6028 would break that link. The bill would remove the US Copyright Office from the Library of Congress‘s supervisory authority. The Register would instead be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, serving a term of 10 years with the option of reappointment.

Source: A bill moving through Congress could change who controls the US Copyright Office

The US Register of Copyrights has continued the designation of The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) as the statutory collective responsible for administering the blanket compulsory mechanical license for eligible streaming and download services in the United States. The decision follows the Register‘s first periodic review of The MLC‘s designation, as required by the Music Modernization Act (MMA).

Source: Copyright Office reups The MLC’s designation as the statutory Mechanical Licensing Collective

Google has processed billions of DMCA takedown requests during the first months of the year. Reporting agency Link-Busters remains the top sender. While its dominance remains, the company appears to have hit a takedown ceiling of roughly 70 million URLs per week. Google won’t confirm whether there’s a limit on the notices it processes and says that trusted parties “can submit the quantity they need.”

Source: Google’s Top DMCA Sender Plateaus at 70 Million Takedowns Per Week

The “Cox effect” continues to ripple across the music industry litigation landscape. In the latest development, Anthropic has shrugged off vicarious liability in the newer copyright infringement suit it’s facing from major music publishers including Concord. Judge Eumi K. Lee just recently signed a related order, thereby approving the publisher plaintiffs’ voluntary dismissal of a vicarious infringement claim without prejudice.

Source: Anthropic Brushes Off Vicarious Infringement Claims In Music Publishers’ Copyright Suit

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, accused Perplexity of scraping more than 17,000 CNN stories, photos, videos and other content and using that to train its products. The complaint is the network’s first legal case against an AI company seeking to protect its copyrights — and is believed to the first litigation in this area by a TV network,

Source: CNN Sues AI Firm Perplexity, Alleging It Engaged in ‘Massive Copyright Infringement’

Sony Music Entertainment has asked a federal court for permission to expand its copyright infringement lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, seeking to add over 30,000 copyrighted sound recordings to its complaint. The motion, filed on Friday (May 22) in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, says Sony identified the additional works after gaining access to Udio‘s training data during the discovery process.

Source: Sony Music moves to add more than 30,000 copyrighted recordings to its lawsuit against Udio