A trio of critical issues primed to dominate the copyright landscape in 2026 will test music-piracy liability, President Donald Trump’s authority, and the evolution of artificial intelligence.
The US Supreme Court could provide decisive answers to questions about what internet service providers must do to help police online music piracy in a case between music publishers and Cox Communications Inc. that was argued in December. But even that billion-dollar case could be eclipsed by the economic impact of the sprawling, contentious litigation prodding how copyright law applies to the training of the models that power generative AI.
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