The US House of Representatives' Committee on Administration has marked up legislation H.R. 6028, known as the 'Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act', that proposes the make the Librarian of Congress appointed by Congress and the position of Register of Copyrights by the White House. Currently, the Librarian of Congress is a Presidential appointee, while the Register of Copyrights is appointed by the Librarian of Congress, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Bill follows atte...

The Calcutta High Court has found in favour of the Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) by dismissing telecom provider Vodafone Idea's appeal of a lower court decision which ruled that a separate license from IPRS is required for underlying music and lyrics from recordings when they are communicated to the public. IPRS Chairman Javed Akhtar welcomed the ruling. “We are delighted with this decision and thank the Hon’ble Court for this stellar Judgement," said Akhtar. "It is a landmark moment wh...

Book publishing houses Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishing Group and McGraw Hill, alongside author Scott Turow, have filed a putative class action lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against Meta and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for willful copyright infringement of millions of textual works, including literature, educational works, and scholarly articles, that have allegedly been used to develop Meta’s Llama large langu...