The Permissions Company LLC

05/20/2026

Formed just a few years ago, the Copyright Claims Board is intended to help streamline smaller (under $30000) copyright disputes.

Copyright Claims Board Homepage

04/23/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ts2KGuUh1/

Judge Breyer denied the motion to dismiss the Plaintiffs’ Second Amended Complaint in In re Mosaic LLM Litigation. Databricks and Mosaic argued that the complaint failed to state a claim of i…

02/28/2026

Am headed to the AWP Conference in Baltimore tomorrow. If you are going, please stop by my Booth 121--there will be new coffee mugs to hand out!

Also, I've got a booth and so have plenty of room for a small press to share the space. DM me if interestested.

01/24/2026

Looking forward to going to Baltimore for the AWP Conference in March.

We'll be at Booth 121, and am hopeful we'll have new coffee mugs this year!

01/21/2026

Bernard DeVoto wasn't wrong in the letter linked below.

to Mr. Woodford April 3, 1950 Dear Mr. Woodford: Of course you have my permission to use the quotation from The Year of Decision you ask for. Incidentally, I solicit you not to assist the growing c…

12/09/2025

https://authorsguild.org/news/claimshero-and-anthropic-settlement-what-authors-need-to-know/

In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litigation experience in federal court—is using online ads and other means […]

11/19/2025

Copyright analysis of works is often as much a creative act as the works themselves.

In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. I. The artist formerly known as Prince It was 1981, […]

08/09/2025

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

06/25/2025

Not sure that I agree with the article's title here--the problem was not that the company's *output* was itself a copyright violation, but that the *input* of millions of downloaded books is. And it is that input which is going to get them into trouble.

A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late on Monday that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under U.S. copyright law.

05/16/2025

So pleased to welcome New Directions Publishing Corp as a client.

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.