Where IP, platforms,
and AI meet the
law that governs them.

Notes on copyright, platform regulation, and the legal questions technology and media keep raising faster than the law can answer.

Rania, author of Beats and Bots

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Latest Can I See Some ID? The EU Kids Act and the Age-Checked Internet
Platforms & speech Sep 29, 2026

Can I See Some ID? The EU Kids Act and the Age-Checked Internet

A fourteen-year-old in Paris opens her favourite app at midnight. Under a new EU proposal, she couldn’t have an account of her own at...

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Beats & Bots, Revisited: Should AI Music Be Copyrighted?
Media & IP Sep 26, 2026

Beats & Bots, Revisited: Should AI Music Be Copyrighted?

In 2025 I presented research at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research under the title Beats & Bots: Should AI Music Be Copyrighted? It...

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Who Pulls the Plug? Parliament and the Push to Ban Superintelligence
AI & regulation Sep 25, 2026

Who Pulls the Plug? Parliament and the Push to Ban Superintelligence

This month, parliament was told that the chief executives at top AI companies themselves put the chance that AI ends all human life between...

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The Claude watermark, and the authorship question nobody asked for
Media & IP Aug 20, 2026

The Claude watermark, and the authorship question nobody asked for

You must have seen it. Everyone is asking about the supposed ‘Claude watermark’ and what it means for them. My social media has been...

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What this blog covers

  • AI & regulation

    How the law is racing to catch up with generative AI.

  • Platforms & speech

    The rules platforms set, and the ones governments do.

  • Data & privacy

    Who owns your information, and what happens when it moves.

  • Media & IP

    Ownership, authorship, and the business of content.

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Written by a law and tech nerd with a music habit

I'm Rania, a First Class LLB graduate (University of Sussex) specialising in IP, technology, and platform law. Before law, I spent years in music and documentary photography which is where the questions behind this blog started.

My research on generative AI and music ownership, funded through a Junior Research Associate project, was presented at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research 2025. I've since worked across ad policy and platform compliance during a placement year at TikTok, alongside experience at The Guardian and Hogan Lovells, and I write here to keep pulling on that thread.

Best Essay Prize, Internet Law & Regulation TikTok Ad Policy placement BCUR 2025 presenter Sussex Law School