Sarah Gilbert — MEI Fellow On September 4, The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York released a press statement announcing the arrest of Michael Smith, a 52-year-old musician, who now faces charges of orchestrating a $10 million AI music streaming fraud. The press statement included the unsealed indictment which included three counts of criminal… Continue reading Inside the AI Streaming Fraud Scandal: Michael Smith’s $10 Million Scheme
Month: October 2024
Lyrics on Trial: A Closer Look into California’s Legislation
Sarah Gilbert — MEI Fellow In the first post in our series on the various RAP Acts around the United States, we analyzed Louisiana’s version which recently was enacted. In this post, we analyze California’s version, which was actually enacted first. In September 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 2799, Jones-Sawyer “Evidence: admissibility of creative expressions,” which had passed both… Continue reading Lyrics on Trial: A Closer Look into California’s Legislation