Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the TechMeme Right Home podcast.

I'm your host, Brian McCullough, as always.

We are going to do something today that is probably long overdue.

We've been talking about it so much, the legality of AI around copyright and things like that that I thought today we talked to an expert on these sorts of things.

We're going to be talking to Rob Rosenberg, who is the principal of teleride legal strategies.

Rob, thanks for coming on the show.

Thanks for having me.

Forgive me for being this blunt about it, but give us your bona fides, uh, briefly, if you

could, so that we understand, um, your, your background in this area.

Sure. I'm an attorney. I've been practicing, uh, 30 plus years. I am formerly the Executive Vice President General Counsel

of Showtime networks. And since leaving Showtime about two years ago, I've been running my

legal and consulting practice, Telluride Legal Strategies.

So let's start really high level first, okay?

What is the state of copyright law in this country?

Like, I mean that in the sense of, is it settled law, like settled going back to

English common law, or is it something that has been in flux in recent years because of

technological advances? Yeah, I think, you know, Choice B is definitely much closer to reality.

We are, you know, we, we as a nation and with the technology that is changing constantly on us, I think there's a lot

unsettled at the moment. There are certain concepts within copyright law with certain uses,

certain exclusive rights to copyright owners that are well settled and well established,

and it enables people to exploit and merchandise their creative works.

They register them for copyright,

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