I just got the printed posters of these and they look FANTASTIC.

So detailed! So giant! So bureaucrat-a-licious!

Order one here:

1201.nyuengelberg.org/burdenofproof/

it really makes a difference!

Is admitting that cleaning my laptop screen makes it feel like I am looking at a whole new computer just an admission of how gross my laptop screen usually is?

Because people should know about clean laptop screens. Real paradigm shift for innovation velocity.

From Messages to Conversations: AI Agents are Changing how we Find Culture The first audience for your art is becoming a machine. The question isn’t just how to optimize for that machine, it’s what you give it to say, and whether what it says is worth a conver…

"The first audience for your art is becoming a machine."

I suspect this phenomenon is way under the radar for most artists/institutions I know...from Douglas McLennan today. (Don't think I see the great opportunities here that he does. But I always support looking for them.)

“If the intended purpose of the law was the protection of creative works in the digital economy, the actual effect of the law is the creation of a bureaucratic sinkhole that draws in public interest organizations, academics, industry organizations, and the public every three years.”

Their ability to just eat it in a supply crisis is giving them all the power to destroy a large portion of the market this year. I don't think a lot of smaller manufacturers will survive this.
Not just Windows fault, nobody can compete on value with this. Their SoCs for this are essentially free.

“the actual effect of the law is the creation of a bureaucratic sinkhole that draws in public interest and industry orgs, academics, and the public every three years.
They must do this, in part, because the gov’t does not see its role as acting on behalf of the public interest itself.”

Enjoy this deep dive into Copyright's most fixed game.

A huge amount of work has gone I to this from all of the team. A lot of improvement under the hood as well. We are getting towards something stable for release!

If there's one type of data I love more than birds it's... bureaucracy!

It was fun working with @michaelweinberg.org on a companion piece for this report on this strange kafka-esque corner of copyright law.

Unbalanced Interests

All this and more in the new report:

www.nyuengelberg.org/outputs/unba...

And third, in 2003 commenters named specific DVDs and albums they owned that were restricted by DRM. Relive the media of that year with the 2003 Media Explorer:

1201.nyuengelberg.org/2003media/

Second, the 1201 process is people. The 1201 leaderboard ranks commenters by the number of comments they have filed since the very beginning:

1201.nyuengelberg.org/leaderboard/

The Burden of Proof Must Be Met Every Three Years With New Evidence A text analysis and visualization of nine triennial rulemaking proceedings under DMCA Section 1201 — mapping more than 55,000 pages of petitions and comments filed since 2000.

DVDs have been a big part of the 1201 process, so this report comes with BONUS CONTENT

First, @jerthorp.bsky.social created Burden of Proof, a massive viz of all of the comments submitted from 2000-2024

1201.nyuengelberg.org/burdenofproof/

(you can buy prints up to 5 feet wide for your office)

All of this work by the public to allow profs to show movie clips, visually impaired people to access ebooks, & people with implanted medical devices access info about their own body just so that an extra claim can be added in a handful of cases that would exist without it

During the last 3 year period, only 12 lawsuits made meaningful use of the provision, always in connection with a © infringement claim.

Unbalanced Interests

NEW REPORT on the 1201(a)(1) process!

(you may know it as the cell phone/mcflurry jailbreaking process)

Every 3 years almost 100 nonprofits & clinics submit >1000 pages of comments asking for an exemption to a law that is almost never used.

For what?

www.nyuengelberg.org/outputs/unba...

I can't believe I am trying to decide if scheduled war crimes means that we should delay the release of a report tomorrow

I'm not totally sure what this does, but the branding on this newly @oshwassociation.bsky.social certified open source hardware is compelling nonetheless trunkcam.seacell.earth

Justices' Cox Decision Fuels Debate Over DMCA's Relevance - Law360 The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision last week shielding Cox Communications from contributory copyright liability and wiping out a massive piracy verdict against the internet service provider h...

A double dose of former EC Fellows in the Law360 Article about the implications for the future of DMCA safe harbors post-Cox, with both @jnvictor.bsky.social & Michael Goodyear taking star turns

www.law360.com/ip/articles/...

Vote for the best of the internet I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

Apropos of nothing, the @neverpo.st episode I wrote about generative AI being (perhaps?) the aesthetic of New American Fascism was nominated for a Webby today.

If you wanted to vote for it, that would be nice.

Every 3D Printable Film Camera, In One Place Hackaday Article

Every 3D Printable Film Camera, In One Place

so proud to launch this toolkit alongside dozens of trailblazing partners mapping the best policies to stop the unaccountable expansion of data centers at the local, state, and federal level. designed for visionaries and policy wonks alike, it answers "so what do we do?" with over 100 recos ✨

I like that response because it leaves room for non-zealous (or at least acceptably zealous) lustfulness. It's important to reserve all possible degrees of lust.

do you have an opinion as to whether "Overzealous" is a modifier (of "lustful" or "content" or something else), or part of a serial list ("lustful, overzealous content")? I couldn't quite decipher the grammar

obviously, you know, not the most important part of the story

New from me over at @404media.co - a look at how the parental rights movement uses digital tools to get more books pulled from shelves using commercial generative AI tools.

I designed and printed this case for an LPDA antenna while I still can.

welp, looks like we will not get a ruling on the copyrightability of design files for 3D printable gun parts

www.courtlistener.com/docket/69134...

If AI makes it easier to reimplement OSS in a way that sidesteps licensing requirements, it basically finds itself in the same IP space as open source hardware: kind of protected by (c), kind of not, with lessons to learn

michaelweinberg.org/blog/2026/03...

No shade to this Victorian chabot effort, but one of the main reasons libraries themselves aren’t doing this left and right is that the general public would be stunned at how casually racist/misogynist/etc every LLM along these lines would be without *extensive* post-training/alignment