Techdirt reports that copyright is being abused to censor Albania's Flamingo Revolution. The article frames this as part of a wider pattern in which copyright law, intended to protect creators, is instead used to silence political expression.
The piece also places the Albanian case within the copyright world's recent struggles with generative AI. It notes that for the past couple of years, copyright has faced what it calls the greatest challenge to its foundations since the arrival of the internet, with AI at the centre of that upheaval.
By connecting the two, the article suggests that the same legal mechanisms are being stretched in both contexts: as copyright faces new technological pressures, it is also being repurposed as a censorship tool against protest movements like the Flamingo Revolution.