Court documents from Bartz v Anthropic PBC reveal Anthropic's 'Project Panama', an initiative to destructively scan physical books to train its Claude AI model, raising legal and cultural questions about fair use and the preservation of human-authored texts.
Shanghai-based company MiniMax has restricted free access to its model weights in the US, EU, UK and South Korea, citing regulatory uncertainties and ongoing copyright legal proceedings.
The UK creative industry grapples with AI's impact on copyright and originality, as the government aims to foster AI growth while protecting creators. Adobe executives and a young designer highlight AI's potential to enhance creativity and efficiency, but emphasize the need for modernized legal frameworks to safeguard artists' rights.
The Munich Regional Court ruled that US-based Suno AI violated copyrights by training its models on unlicensed music, ordering damages and disclosure of illicit revenues. Germany's licensing agency GEMA initiated the lawsuit, which is a globally significant test of copyright law for AI music. Suno plans to appeal the decision.
A German court ruled against AI music startup Suno, finding it violated copyright by using GEMA's catalog to train its AI and reproduce protected works without a license. Suno disputes the ruling, citing a misunderstanding of its technology and considering an appeal.
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.
ISBNdb offers AI developers up to one million physical book titles, including non-digitized, rare, and out-of-print material, for destructive scanning, echoing a 2025 court ruling that supported replacing purchased books with digital scans under fair use, provided the original was discarded, thus maintaining the library's copy count unchanged.
Despite perceived decline, the 2020s have seen significant innovation in cinema, driven by YouTube creators achieving box office success, the emergence of copyright expiry films, and unprecedented audience influence on film production and marketing, as seen with *Sonic the Hedgehog* and *Barbenheimer*.
US officials have escalated accusations that Chinese AI labs are "stealing proprietary US technology" through distillation, a common industry practice. However, AI experts, including Moonshot AI's Randy Xian, have dismissed these claims as "political" and "reckless," arguing that an AI model's output is not copyrighted.
A draft bill to amend the 2014 copyright law has been completed by the House of Representatives, proposing that AI-assisted works receive copyright protection only with human involvement. The bill also mandates compensation from tech platforms for using news content for aggregation, republishing, link-previewing, or AI training.
Bloomsbury, publisher of Harry Potter, will receive a multimillion-pound payout from a $1.5bn copyright settlement between AI startup Anthropic and thousands of authors. The settlement addresses the use of protected work to train AI chatbots, with Bloomsbury expecting around $19m.
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement where AI company Anthropic will pay authors about $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train its Claude chatbot. This is the largest known copyright recovery in history.
US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and authors, ending the largest copyright class-action. The judge reduced lawyers' fees and lead plaintiffs' awards, while denying most late opt-out requests.
A federal judge has approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the AI company of using copyrighted books for training. The settlement offers authors approximately $3,000 per allegedly pirated book, making it the largest known copyright recovery in history.
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement, requiring AI company Anthropic to compensate thousands of authors whose pirated works trained its Claude chatbot. The agreement mandates payments of about $3,000 per book and the destruction of pirated files.
A federal judge in San Francisco approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement for an AI copyright lawsuit filed by writers, who accused the company of using their pirated work to train its Claude AI models. The deal, initially rejected, covers over 480,000 works, with some authors opting out for separate lawsuits.
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.
A federal judge has granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement in a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors and publishers. The payout covers 500,000 works, but the core legal question of AI training on copyrighted text as fair use was decided in Anthropic's favor, a significant precedent for the AI industry.
Australia is grappling with the profound societal and economic impact of artificial intelligence, prompting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to outline a national strategy focused on protecting sovereignty, fostering job creation, and avoiding past mistakes amidst global investment and ethical debates.
A new era of content discovery, AI Optimization (AIO), is emerging as AI models like ChatGPT and Perplexity become primary search tools. This shift requires content creators to optimize for AI-generated responses, distinct from traditional SEO, to capture growing organic traffic.
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.
Australia grapples with balancing AI investment and copyright protection. Tech giants lobby for exemptions to train AI models, while creatives fear a "betrayal" if protections are weakened. Government ministers are divided on the approach.
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.
The New York Times and The Daily News allege OpenAI lied about its ability to search customer chat logs for copyrighted material, escalating a two-year copyright lawsuit. OpenAI previously claimed such searches were burdensome and raised privacy concerns, but a deposition revealed internal searches and a database of de-identified conversations were already in use.
