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Amid a wave of lawsuits targeting how AI companies use copyrighted works to train large language models that generate new works, a peculiar provision of copyright law is suddenly in the spotlight: Section 1202 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Section 1202 restricts intentionally removing or changing copyright management information (CMI), such as a signature on a painting or attached to a photograph. Passed in 1998, the rule was supposed to help rightsholders identify potentially infringing uses of their works and encourage licensing. Open AI and Microsoft used code from Github as part of the training data for their LLMs, along with billions of other works. A group of anonymous Github contributors sued, arguing that those LLMs generated new snippets of code that were substantially similar to theirs—but with the CMI stripped. Notably, they did not claim that the new code was copyright infringement—they are relying solely on Section 1202 of the DMCA. Their problem? The generated code is different from their original work, and courts across the US have adopted an “identicality rule,” on the theory that Section 1202 is supposed to apply only when CMI is removed from existing works, not when it’s simply missing from a new one. It may sound like an obscure legal question, but the outcome of this battle—currently before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals—could have far-reaching implications beyond generative AI technologies. If the rightholders were correct, Section 1202 effectively creates a freestanding right of attribution, creating potential liability even for non-infringing uses, such as fair use, if those new uses simply omit the CMI. While many fair users might ultimately escape liability under other limitations built into Section 1202, the looming threat of litigation, backed by risk of high and unpredictable statutory penalties, will be enough to pressure many defendants to settle. Indeed, an entire legal industry of “copyright trolls” has emerged to exploit this dynamic, with no corollary benefit to creativity or innovation. Fortunately, as we explain in a brief filed today, the text of Section 1202 doesn’t support such an expansive interpretation. The provision repeatedly refers to “works” and “copies of works”—not “substantially similar” excerpts or new adaptations—and its focus on “removal or alteration” clearly contemplates actions taken with respect to existing works, not new ones. Congress could have chosen otherwise and written the law differently. Wisely it did not, thereby ensuring that rightsholders couldn’t leverage the omission of CMI to punish or unfairly threaten otherwise lawful re-uses of a work. Given the proliferation of copyrighted works in virtually every facet of daily life, the last thing any court should do is give rightsholders a new, freestanding weapon against fair uses. As the Supreme Court once observed, copyright is a “tax on readers for the purpose of giving a bounty to writers.” That tax—including the expense of litigation—can be an important way to encourage new creativity, but it should not be levied unless the Copyright Act clearly requires it.

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Is Darius Rucker insisting that the show must go on… even after losing his voice? Last weekend, the “Alright” singer was performing in Atlantic City, New Jersey on a stop along his Darius Rucker Live Tour when his voice gave out only a few songs into the concert. Rucker had only gotten through three songs in his set when he realized he wouldn’t be able to go on with the performance. You’ll see in the video that Darius was a bit shaken and visibly upset about the sudden loss of his voice, and he even said it was the first time that it had ever happened in his career as an artist. Rucker also added that he’d play one more song – which ended up being “Wagon Wheel” – and that he’d make it up to everyone that was there: “Y’all I can’t sing anymore. I will play one more song. I promise you we’re going to figure this out. You’re gonna get your money back. We’re gonna figure this out. I just can’t sing. I’ve never done this before. This is the first time this has happened in my 40-year career. This has never happened. I physically can’t sing, and I promise you on everything that I stand for, I will make this up to you.” @carotheblondie Darius had to end the Atlantic City show a few songs in. Feel better Darius we love you!!!!#dariusrucker #wagonwheel #atlanticcity ♬ original sound – carotheblondie Tough to find out that the concert you paid for – and potentially traveled for – was called off, only to then get serenaded with “Wagon Wheel.” The day after Darius Rucker walked off the stage in Atlantic City after profusely apologizing, the country artist cleared up just how he was going to make it up to all of the concert goers. Though he explored rescheduling the tour date, he and his team ended up deciding to just offer refunds to those who were in attendance. Rucker made the announcement via his Instagram story, saying: “Atlantic City… thank you so much for coming out Saturday night. I feel awful and I’m so sorry — I have never lost my voice in all my years of performing. We looked at every option to reschedule, but unfortunately, it’s just not possible this year, so we’re issuing full refunds. The venue will send details to you directly. Thank you so much for all your kind messages wishing me well. Love y’all and see you soon!” That’s a bummer for fans in Atlantic City. And when this all went down, I looked at Darius Rucker’s tour schedule and noticed that he didn’t have much time to recuperate between that canceled show and his next scheduled date on Darius Rucker Live Tour in Hollywood, Florida. The New Jersey show was on July 12, and back-to-back Florida shows were staring Darius down on July 19 and 20. That’s not a lot of recovery time, and the situation was made all the more challenging by having two shows in two nights on the schedule. And I haven’t even mentioned the fact that Rucker was only three concerts into his tour that features over 40 total dates (across three different countries) when his voice gave out on him for the very first time. I've been waiting for this moment… we're back baby!! Can't wait to hear all of you singing!! What show are you going to? https://t.co/b7MErJ3OiE pic.twitter.com/5mn9xeqNxL — Darius Rucker (@dariusrucker) July 10, 2025 But it appears that there’s good news on the Darius Rucker voice front. When reached out to for comment on whether or not the 59-year-old country music star would continue on his Darius Rucker Live Tour,  his Nashville-based publicist Ebie McFarland relayed this message to USA Today: “There is no further interruption in his touring schedule. Following vocal rest, Darius has been cleared to resume shows.” There you have it. Darius Rucker is rested up and ready to get back out on stage. Hopefully all goes well the rest of the way for Rucker. He’ll undoubtedly be taking his Florida shows very seriously (in terms of preparation), and I’d imagine he’ll have some sort of system in place to potentially ensure that what happened to him in Atlantic City won’t happen to him again. Wonder if he’ll open the next concert with “Come Back Song?”The post Darius Rucker Clears Up The Future Of His Tour After Losing His Voice At Recent Concert first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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Considered one of the greatest musicians of all time, David Gilmour helped take Pink Floyd to another level with his incredible ability to translate emotion through the notes that came out of his guitar. It was the perfect match for Roger Waters' brilliant lyrics, Nick Mason's drumming and Richard Wright's fantastic keyboards and piano. Over the decades, Gilmour didn’t speak much about other artists who began their careers around the same time as him, but one musician he did share his thoughts on was the legendary Neil Young. What is David Gilmour's opinion on Neil Young Like his former bandmate Roger Waters, David Gilmour is also a big fan of Neil Young and praised him a couple of times. One of his favorite songs of the musician's career is "A Man Needs a Maid" from the 1972 album "Harvest". He mentioned that song when he was part of BBC's Desert Island Discs in 2003. Show interviews musicians and asks them to pick songs they would take to a desert island. "'A Man Needs a Maid' by Neil Young," he said. Then the interviewer commented: "Which is a deeply politically incorrect (one)". Gilmour replied: "Oh, I'm being non-gender specific of course when I'm on my desert island. It could be a man friday. It's Neil Young, it's very beautiful. It's a particularly beautiful instrumental orchestral passage in the middle, which is the bit we're leading into," David Gilmour said. The piano and vocals on that track were recorded by Young and the strings were performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. It’s interesting to see that David focused on the musical aspects of the song rather than the lyrics. Because he has always been more of a music writer than a lyricist. Roger Waters, on the other hand, was always more interested in what Young had to say in his lyrics. David Gilmour thinks Young was important to Crosby, Stills & Nash Neil first achieved fame as a member of Buffalo Springfield and then started his successful solo career. But he was also an important member of the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The Pink Floyd member is also a big fan of them and in an interview with BBC's “Tracks Of My Years” in 2006, he listed their song "Ohio" as one of his favorites. (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage) “We were on tour in America when this came out. There was all this thing about the Kent State University. The four kids who got killed there in the rioting, the demonstrations against the Vietnam war. So it’s just a great song. They were always fantastic with that added to a little bit of Neil Young strength with the whole thing with Crosby, Stills & Nash great voices. Still a big fan,” David Gilmour said. The song was written by Neil Young and released as a single in 1970. It became one of the most influential protest songs of all time. During his 2006 concert at the Royal Albert Hall, which later became the DVD "Remember That Night", he had David Crosby and Graham Nash as special guests. They performed with Gilmour the tracks they were part of from the album "On an Island", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and CSNY's "Find The Cost of Freedom", which was the short song on the other side of the "Ohio" single. Another interesting Neil Young and Pink Floyd connection is that fans often points Young's song "Down By The River" (From "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - 1969) as an influence to "Breathe', released on their 1973 album "Dark Side of The Moon". Gilmour continues to follow Neil Young's career https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uiVpxDuAhc&pp=ygUUZGF2aWQgZ2lsbW91ciBjcm9zYnk%3D The Pink Floyd singer and guitarist is still interested in what artists like Neil Young are doing nowadays. He was asked by Classic Rock what kind of music he was listening to at the moment and he said: "I always listen to a new Bob, Neil or Leonard record. But I don’t listen to much new music. When I have the radio on it all sounds dreadfully formularised to me, but I’m not its audience. When you get to sixty-nine you’re not spending every day seeking out new pop music." "Obviously there are whole layers of music away from what we get on the radio and telly. It’s like that thing they say about rats: ‘You’re never more than six feet away from a rat in London’. You’re probably never more than a hundred yards from someone doing a great gig somewhere. But I’m just not aware of it. If a new Pink Floyd came along now I wouldn’t know it had happened," Neil Young said. Born in Toronto, Canada in 1945, Neil Young is one year older than Gilmour and started his career in 1963. Since then he has released 45 solo studio albums, besides the ones with Crosby, Stills & Nash, Buffalo Springfield and the several other projects he had over the decades. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo act in 1995.The post David Gilmour’s opinion on Neil Young appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.