Good morning and welcome to Supreme Court Brief! The justices announced they will resume reading summaries of their decisions from the bench for the rest of the term, but live audio will be restricted to oral arguments. Remarkably, no opinions have yet been released in the current term, and the justices won't be back on the bench until Jan. 9. This week we take a look at a trio of tech-related cases that the justices acted on this week.  We also take a peek at some Supreme Court books expected to hit the market in 2023. Plus, scroll down to read what the Justice Department told a judge who wanted to hire a historian to help him apply the justices' latest Second Amendment decision.

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Lyric-Scraping & Hacking 

The tech world made its appearance in a big way in the last two orders lists by the justices when the court granted review in two cases and asked for the views of the solicitor general in a third.

First, the CVSG case, ML Genius Holdings v. Google is a copyright preemption case with so-called lyric scraping as the backdrop. Genius built an internet platform that publishes and annotates song lyrics.  Genius holds no copyright on the content. Instead, it negotiates licenses to transcribe and display the lyrics. To protect its investment, it conditions free access on a visitor's promise not to collect Genius's content and use it for competing commercial purposes.