Data centers have crossed from local land-use controversy into the 2026 campaign ad war. Candidates in Texas, Ohio, Wisconsin ...

Data center opposition enters a national political phase as ratepayer costs, transmission lines, moratoriums, polling, and electoral pressure reshape America’s AI infrastructure debate.

Multi-generation family farm dispute has become a national property-rights story. I don’t blame them. I wouldn’t want to give up my property either. A Kentucky family is suing to protect its ancestral ...

Every now and then you see one of those cases that makes you say which idiot thought it was a good idea to litigate this catastrophe rather than settle? Two juries—on opposite sides of the ...

If you saw the adverb “forever” in a contract, would it give you pause? It would me—I would wonder who allowed that to slip through. As text-to-audio generative AI models desperately try to normalize ...

The Mechanical Licensing Collective has now said out loud what many assumed was coming. According to a recent communication circulated to stakeholders, the MLC has begun developing the ...

Hank Green’s recent open letter in support of YouTube (that was in response to Irving Azoff’s open and scathing letter against YouTube) deserves a strong response from musicians and other creators. I ...

The order itself is only two pages long and, standing alone, is somewhat opaque. A reader could easily come away without understanding what the settlement actually does. For that reason, we are ...

To my knowledge, the current Phonorecords V proceeding is the first time a voluntary negotiation period at a Phonorecords proceeding before the Copyright Royalty ...

Late last year, thieves disguised as construction workers broke into the Louvre during broad daylight, grabbed more than $100 million worth of crown jewels, and roared off on their motorbikes into the ...

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell’s latest scoop on the Texas AI buildout reads like a local story about cautious legislators and data center growth. It’s actually much more; it’s a preview of a much larger ...

MTP readers may remember the name Christopher Sprigman. Most recently, we have identified him as a counsel to Spotify in the “Nashville cases” brought against his firm’s client Spotify by four ...