Journal Home Browse Issues Search Articles Submissions About the Journal Copyright Fixation Podcast Subscribe Go back to Issues MY BLANKET AND ME: BLANKET LICENSING FOR GENERATIVE AI 71 J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y 374 (2024) Dave Davis Calliope Networks, co-founder and CEO Rachel Fertig DLA Piper, Partner Umair Kazi The Authors Guild, Director of Policy & Advocacy Roanie Levy Copyright Clearance Center, Legal Advisor Phil Sherrell Bird & Bird, Head of London office Abstract This first panel reflects parallels that the current AI era has with the development of interactive streaming two decades ago: the potential need for online services to take licenses to “all” content of a given type, and thus the need for mechanisms to enable such licensing on a massive scale. Solutions to this problem for streaming developed exclusively in the market until a statutorily mandated solution – for music, in the form of the Music Modernization Act – appeared in 2018. Analogously, this panel discussed various companies’ efforts to build blanket licensing platforms for AI uses in advance of any substantive results from courts or Congress. Full Article 71(3) Copyright and Tech_My Blanket and MeDownload Related Content Event Mar 4 Is It Fair Use to Use Pirated Materials for AI Training? This panel will discuss the current controversy over whether the use of “pirated” datasets in training AI models overcome claims… Live CLE Credit AI & Copyright AI in the Courts Journal December 21, 2025 C+T Panel 2 - A THOUSAND TIMES NO: THE PRACTICALITIES OF OPT-OUT FOR AI TRAINING 72 J. Copyright Soc'y 1023 (2025)Download AI & Copyright Copyright + Technology Conference Creativity & Technology Collide Technology, Innovation & the Future Journal December 21, 2025 C+T Panel 4 - MY OWN THREE HANDS: AI CONTENT CREATION TOOLS AND COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION 72 J. Copyright Soc'y 1071 (2025)Download AI & Copyright Copyright + Technology Conference Creativity & Technology Collide Technology, Innovation & the Future