A UK High Court judge orders removal of all Wolfoo videos from platforms like YouTube, ruling they illegally copied Peppa Pig audio clips, despite SConnect's claims of third-party error and in-house sound use post-2020.
Sony has filed a new lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, alleging infringement of 30,117 copyrighted recordings, including tracks by major artists like Beyoncé and Michael Jackson. This separate legal action follows a court's rejection of Sony's attempt to add these recordings to an earlier 2024 complaint, with Sony accusing Udio of ripping audio from YouTube for training.
X (formerly Twitter) and a group of music publishers, led by the NMPA, have dismissed their opposing lawsuits concerning copyright infringement and anticompetitive practices. The three-year legal battle concludes without disclosure of the settlement terms.
The New York Times and other US media outlets are seeking sanctions against OpenAI, alleging the AI company is hiding crucial evidence in a landmark copyright infringement trial. The lawsuit centers on whether AI chatbots unfairly compete with news sources by using copyrighted articles for training without compensating creators.
Twitch streamer Kaceytron has been suspended, with the platform citing Community Guidelines violations but offering no specific reason. Online speculation points to a livestream where she was allegedly driving while intoxicated or potential copyright issues, though neither is confirmed.
South Korean Culture Minister Choi Hui-young will meet with copyright protection experts to discuss improvements to the emergency blocking and access restriction system for copyright infringement sites, which have been circumventing current measures.
A 20-year-old poster designer is suing Shopify in Australia, alleging the e-commerce giant hosted "ghost stores" that copied his work. Ryan Billington claims Shopify ignored his copyright infringement notices before he filed a lawsuit in Brisbane.
Shein accuses Temu of copyright infringement, files lawsuit in London High Court, alleging Temu used thousands of Shein's photos to advertise copies of its clothing
Hachette, Macmillan and others allege that Meta pirated millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama modelFive major publishers sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence models.Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill, as well as author Scott Turow, alleged in the proposed class-action complaint that Meta pirated millions of their works and used them without permission to train its Llama large language models to respond to human prompts. Continue reading...
A Tokyo court has sentenced 39-year-old Wataru Takeuchi to 18 months in prison and a 1 million yen fine for running a website that published extensive spoiler content from Godzilla Minus One and Overlord anime. The court ruled that the detailed transcriptions and scene descriptions went beyond fair use, marking a significant legal precedent against so-called spoiler sites that monetize copyrighted material through ads.
