Market dilution: the theory Kadrey left open
Meta won summary judgment on an expressly thin record while the court signalled that market-dilution evidence could change the result. This is unsettled.
Meta won summary judgment on an expressly thin record while the court signalled that market-dilution evidence could change the result. This is unsettled.
The US has no federal right of publicity, so likeness exposure follows the subject and the audience. How to set a governing-law posture that actually holds.
Copying a style that reproduces no protected work is largely lawful in the US. Replicating a specific person's face or voice is where liability starts.
CDPA s.9(3) is the reason people assume the UK grants copyright in AI output. It is also untested against generative models, and betting on it is a gamble.
The March 2026 report abandoned the broad text-and-data-mining exception with rightsholder opt-out. Here is the UK status quo that actually applies now.
Final approval landed 20 July 2026, but a settlement creates no precedent. The ruling underneath it split lawful acquisition from training.
Blanket no-AI clauses are usually aimed at a risk you are not creating. A decision tree for complying, negotiating a scoped exception, or declining.
US federal law is moving toward treating likeness as a licensable right, not just a tort you sue over after the fact. What that shift means for consent.
Face-matching likeness detection exists and is improving. For a creator whose recognisable asset is their voice, not their face, none of it applies yet.