EFF to Courts: Don’t Rewrite Copyright Over AI Hype

August 31, 2026 · 7:45 pm 1 sources

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• EFF to Courts: Don’t Rewrite Copyright Over AI Hype
  This article was originally published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (CC BY). · August 31, 2026 19:45
  The history of technology is rife with copyright panics. In the 1980s, major rightsholders ran to Congress and the courts, claiming that videotape recorders (VTR) were “to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone .” Then, the Supreme…