The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has launched a request for comments as part of the annual 2025 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy (known as the Notorious Markets List). 
The USTR is seeking to identify online and physical markets to be considered for inclusion in the Notorious Markets List that reportedly "engage in or facilitate substantial copyright piracy or trademark counterfeiting."
Since 2006, USTR identified notorious markets in the annua...

The proposal from Australia's Productivity Commission’s to introduce a new fair dealing exception in the country's Copyright Act for text and data mining for AI models has been rejected by the country's creative sector.
The idea of new exception was floated in the 'Harnessing Data and Digital Technology' Interim Report issued by the Productivity Commission, following an inquiry request from the Australian government on the impact of AI on the local economy.
The Australian Recording Industry Ass...

Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chris Coons (D-DE), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Adam Schiff (D-CA) introduced a discussion draft of the Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block BEARD) Act of 2025, a bipartisan legislation that would allow copyright owners to seek US federal court orders against foreign websites dedicated to digital piracy, preventing them from making stolen content accessible to American households
The legislation would "amend title 17, United States Code, to per...