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 Journal May 1, 2026 HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR COPYRIGHT LAW TO CATCH UP WITH TECHNOLOGY? SOME DATA POINTS FROM THE MUSIC INDUSTRY 73 J. Copyright Soc'y 213Download Bill Rosenblatt, Howie Singer Creativity & Technology Collide Creativity, Culture & the Arts Music, Musicals & Performing Arts Technology, Innovation & the Future Journal May 1, 2026 TRAINING ON TRIAL: INSIGHTS FROM BARTZ AND KADREY 73 J. Copyright Soc'y 261 (2026)Download Barbara Bruni AI & Copyright Journal May 1, 2026 THE UNEASY NEW (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) RELATIONSHIPS: TECH, PUBLISHERS, AND AUTHORS IN ACADEMIC PUBLISHING 73 J. Copyright Soc'y 299 (2026)Download Agnes Gambill West AI & Copyright Keeping Up With Copyright Preservation, Archives & Memory