Happy New Year and welcome to this month’s copyright reads. We will be looking at the Public Domain Day 2025, copyright trials, Meta and TikTok’s woes, AI and copyright and intangible cultural heritage.

Happy reading!

Public Domain Day 2025

Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well

IP is back in fashion or, rather, fashion is back in IP!

Copyright and AI training data—transparency to the rescue?

The dubious utilitarian argument for granting copyright in AI-generated works

‘Servant’ Copyright Trial Begins for Apple, Shyamalan: What to Know

The elephant in the room of EU copyright originality: Time to unpack and harmonize the essential requirement of copyright

UK government’s copyright overhaul ‘will enable artistic vandalism’ | Meta’s Zuckerberg allegedly approved AI training on pirated books | Apple pledges AI update, but journalists want it withdrawn

The Lore of the CREATe Tartan and Contemporary Developments in Intangible Cultural Heritage Law

The Global Impact of a US TikTok Ban 

‘TikTok refugees’ flock to another (heavily censored) Chinese app