David Newhoff

Publishers Strike Back Against Google in Infringement Suit In a new filing, the Association of American Publishers rebuts Google’s efforts to prevent two publishers, Hachette Book Group and Cengage, from joining a class action copyright suit first brought by ...

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Big Tech Gets AI Executive Order for Christmas - The Illusion of More Trump's Executive Order on artificial intelligence is a gift to Big Tech just in time for Christmas. Will it mean anything other than chaos?

"I don’t know how many headlines I’ve read, including quotes by lawmakers in both parties, articulating some variation on the theme that 'we should not make the mistake with AI that we made with social media.'" illusionofmore.com/big-tech-get...

Americans Won’t Thank Washington for Protecting Big Tech in the NDAA - The Illusion of More Big Tech's effort to attach a moratorium on state regulation of AI to the NDAA is politically naive and bad for Americans.

“National defense is a geographic, economic, intellectual, cultural, technological & political consideration in which the greatest strength is also the greatest weakness—that it can only truly be eroded from within.”
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What happens when you kick millions teens off social media? Australia’s about to find out | CNN In the next two weeks, social media platforms will start deactivating accounts for children under 16 in Australia under new laws designed to reduce harm online. Other countries are watching, but some ...

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"The question is not whether AI companies can innovate. The question is whether that innovation requires erasing the rights of everyone whose work makes that innovation possible."
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Why I Am Resigning A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.

"What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Thaler Asks the Court to Make Copyright Policy - The Illusion of More In asking the Supreme Court to hold its petition for certiorari, Dr. Thaler seeks to distract from the legal question presented.

"... the human authorship doctrine, which Thaler seeks to erase, is not a philosophy unique to the views of Director Perlmutter..."
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

In light of Big Tech's legacy of disdain for human rights and human dignity, it may be fair to wonder whether chatbot-assisted suicide is not seen by developers as a feature rather than a bug. When does this end? www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself? ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.

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We should be talking about "Kavanaugh Abductions."

U.S. citizens are disappearing into detention.

Dr. Thaler Asks SCOTUS to Decide the GAI Authorship Question - The Illusion of More Dr. Stephen Thaler wants SCOTUS to agree that humans are not necessary for copyright to attach to works of expression.

"If the Supreme Court agrees to review the case, I hope it will not be distracted by the selection and arrangement of precedent employed in the sleight of hand at work in Thaler’s arguments—all true out of context, all fatal in context."
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Rescuing Democracy from Democratization - The Illusion of More Regarding intellectual property and artificial intelligence, it is essential to rescue democracy from democratization.

“With generative AI, Big Tech—again with the help of many in IP academia—now promotes the alleged value of ‘democratizing’ the production of works, finally revealing democratization as the anti-humanist and, therefore, anti-democratic term that it truly is.”
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Rescuing Democracy from Democratization - The Illusion of More Regarding intellectual property and artificial intelligence, it is essential to rescue democracy from democratization.

That word "democratization" should be rejected by anyone who cares about democracy.
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Rescuing Democracy from Democratization - The Illusion of More Regarding intellectual property and artificial intelligence, it is essential to rescue democracy from democratization.

"...we confront an authoritarianism that we recognize from history paired with a threat of technological feudalism that is unprecedented."
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"We don't need to guess what happens without meaningful oversight. We're living with the consequences right now. The question is what we do differently this time. Real accountability should mean independent safety testing before deployment.."
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On AI Removing Creative Constraints - The Illusion of More Notwithstanding some valuable applications of GAI, the idea that artistic expression functions without constraints is misguided.

Limiting constraints in the creative process has its pros and cons. illusionofmore.com/on-ai-removi...

On AI Removing Creative Constraints - The Illusion of More Notwithstanding some valuable applications of GAI, the idea that artistic expression functions without constraints is misguided.

"... GAI...reframes the question of what it means to create works of expression in the first place. And this includes the question as to whether removing “constraints” is either conducive or harmful to the creative process."
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#Photographers, We're hosting a free #copyrirght webinar for members of Photographic Society of America. Tomorrow 6p ET. Join us! psaphotoworldwide.org/Login.aspx

I genuinely wonder how #TemuGoebbels thinks this going to end. The real Goebbels ended his story murdering his 5 kids in Hitler’s bunker before shooting his wife, then himself & had their bodies burned so the people couldn’t abuse their corpses for revenge like they did w Mussolini.
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Are AI Outputs Protected Speech? - The Illusion of More AI companionship has already led to the death of teens and causes psychological harm. Can developers argue that the bot's outputs are speech?

As tragic cases like Garcia v. Companion AI and Raine v. Open AI proceed, expect to see the defendants argue the speech right to avoid liability. Some discussion...

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Kid Rock. Fashion critic.

Republicans now apply the anti-vax model across the board: Something (vaccines, basic government functioning, the economy) works well enough for so long that they start to blame the thing itself for often imaginary problems. They break the thing. And now we wait for the consequences.

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

"But Sam is post-rights. The question is: if he’s post creative rights, can we honestly believe he isn’t effectively post other kinds of rights?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI Works Do Not “Compete” with Works of Authorship - The Illusion of More Claims that AI outputs "compete" with works of authorship are meant to undermine market dilution as a consideration under fair use.

"Many arguments advocating the view that AI training does not conflict with copyright rights share a common fallacy, namely that AI outputs represent “competitive” works that copyright law was intended to promote." illusionofmore.com/ai-works-do-...

RightsClick, Inc is looking forward to hosting this webinar for members of the Photographic Society of America. lnkd.in/e_k37iZn

Sound AI Policy Demands Protecting Diverse Expression - The Illusion of More Contrary to the claim that copyright rights cannot be allowed to stymie AI development, protecting diverse expression is essential.

"Simply put, if development of AI severely degrades the incentive of people to create new works, then both the creative economy and the AI models will collapse."
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Sound AI Policy Demands Protecting Diverse Expression - The Illusion of More Contrary to the claim that copyright rights cannot be allowed to stymie AI development, protecting diverse expression is essential.

"...policymakers should take note that America’s diversity of expression is a critical advantage in developing world-class artificial intelligence (AI)." illusionofmore.com/sound-ai-pol...

Hegseth is by far the worst in his job in history. And that’s including the three months when Rutherford B. Hayes mistakenly named a walrus in a top hat the Secretary of War.

Are AI Outputs Protected Speech? - The Illusion of More AI companionship has already led to the death of teens and causes psychological harm. Can developers argue that the bot's outputs are speech?

"If the tone of the senate hearing and the opinion of the court so far in the Garcia case are any indication, Big Tech may not so easily shape-shift its way around AI product liability as it has with the harm caused by social media." illusionofmore.com/are-ai-outpu...

Public Knowledge Post on AI & Fair Use Misses the Mark - The Illusion of More Public Knowledge issues a PR statement disguised as a copyright argument claiming that AI training is per se fair use.

The argument that AI training is per se fair use is wishful thinking. It would also be bad law. illusionofmore.com/public-knowl...