George R.R. Martin of A Game of Thrones fame and a group of fellow authors have made substantial progress in their ongoing legal battle against AI giant OpenAI. The authors allege that Sam Altman’s AI giant pirated their books online, trained ChatGPT and other AI models on their works, and then allowed AI to plagiarize their works when answering user queries.
Andrea Bartz, a best-selling thriller writer, played a key role in the largest copyright settlement in history against AI company Anthropic for illegally using authors’ works to train chatbots.
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is demanding that OpenAI must immediately ban the use of copyrighted material to program its new video-generating tool, Sora 2.
Neil Vogel, CEO of People Inc, has criticized Google for being the “worst” offender when it comes to stealing content to train its AI tools, reigniting a long-standing feud between the tech giant and the media industry.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Thursday called for the repeal of a law that provides tech platforms legal immunity from content hosted or created on their platforms, citing the danger of artificial intelligence.
Anthropic, a prominent AI startup has reached a preliminary settlement in a massive class action copyright lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors. The lawsuit had the potential for an astounding $1 trillion verdict against the company.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has prevailed in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors who claimed the company violated their rights by using millions of copyrighted books to train its AI language model, Llama. Although the decision is a win for Meta and other AI giants, the judge stated the decision was more about the plaintiffs’ poor case than about Meta’s approach to AI training.
The left-wing UK Labour government is comprised of “absolute losers” according to Sir Elton John, with the rock legend revealing Sunday he feels “incredibly betrayed” over plans to exempt technology firms from copyright laws.
The U.S. Copyright Office recently published a report that could have significant implications for how Big Tech giants train their AI models, a process notorious for indiscriminately sucking up vast amounts of copyrighted works.
Twitter co-founder and free speech failure Jack Dorsey took to X on Friday declaring, “Delete all IP law,” to which Elon Musk replied, “I agree.” Tech lords are eager to relax copyright and intellectual property laws in favor of AI system vacuuming up the work of humans.
Artists can copyright works they made with the help of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by the U.S. Copyright Office that could further clear the way for the use of AI tools in Hollywood, the music industry, and other creative fields.
Mikey Shulman, CEO and founder of AI music generator company Suno AI, has sparked debate with his recent comments suggesting that the majority of people do not enjoy the process of making music.
Newly unredacted court documents allege that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta secretly used a notorious piracy database to train its AI models. According to plaintiffs, Zuckerberg and Meta used the wide availability of pirated works to be a “get-out-of-jail-free card” during product development work on artificial intelligence.
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer who raised concerns about the company’s AI training practices potentially violating copyright law, was reportedly being considered as a key witness in lawsuits against OpenAI before he was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26.
Craig Peters, the CEO of Getty Images, argues that a nuanced approach to AI and copyright, based on the principles of fair use, can foster innovation while respecting the rights of creators. According to Peters, AI giants try to argue that respecting copyright is an “unsurmountable challenge” as they spend billions on manpower and processors.
Jason Allen, a “synthetic media artist,” is appealing the US Copyright Office’s decision to deny copyright registration for his award-winning AI-generated work “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” claiming that the ruling fails to recognize the human authorship involved in creating the piece.
Three prominent digital media companies including The Intercept have filed lawsuits against AI giants OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement related to the ChatGPT chatbot.
The New York Times has filed a lawsuit Microsoft and ChatGPT developer OpenAI, alleging copyright infringement in a pivotal case that could reshape the boundaries of intellectual property and AI technology.
With several asterisks, qualification and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader of the band of characters, films and books that will become public domain as the year turns to 2024.
A new data “poisoning” tool is reportedly giving artists the ability to fight back against generative AI, causing artificial intelligence training data to become scrambled when tech giants scrape their original work. As one artist explains, “It is going to make [AI companies] think twice, because they have the possibility of destroying their entire model by taking our work without our consent.”
Giant music publishers including Universal Music have taken legal action against artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, accusing it of unlawfully using copyrighted song lyrics to enhance its chatbot technology.
When it comes to Republicans, CNNLOL is acutely aware of how music copyrights work.
Lawyers for the Seattle Seahawks sent a cease and desist letter to Republican Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley.
Russia has reportedly hit on a brutally effective solution to the problem of big-name Western brands like Coca-Cola and McDonald’s pulling out after the invasion of Ukraine: simply allow Russian companies to keep using those valuable brand names without compensating the owners.
A new type of cyber-scam involving false copyright claims on YouTube earned $23 million in ill-gotten gains for two Arizona-based men, Jose Teran and Webster Batista Fernandez, according to a report in Billboard.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is introducing a bill that would strip the Walt Disney Co. of its special copyright privileges, imperiling the company’s control over valuable intellectual property that could include Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has ruled that private user information, including IP addresses, names, and postal addresses can, under certain conditions, be handed over to intellectual property rights holders and other third parties that make copyright claims.
A popular Chinese streaming application that specialized in foreign TV shows and movies was removed from Apple’s App Store on Sunday, reportedly to address problems with “illegal” and “problematic” content.
Social media network Twitter has removed a video from an August tweet by President Trump which featured the popular Eddy Grant song “Electric Avenue” after the musician sued the president’s reelection campaign.
The legal battle between Oracle and Google, which stands accused of stealing technology owned by Oracle for use in Android smartphones, entered its tenth year last week.
Google has deleted “tens of thousands” of links to news stories about topics including child rape, political corruption, and fraud since 2011, often due to bogus copyright complaints filed by people using fake identities, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
The Internet Accountability Project (IAP) filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court on Tuesday for the Oracle v. Google case, contending that Google illegally copied thousands of Oracle’s copyrighted code. IAP senior fellow Rachel Bovard told Breitbart News that this instance serves as a “poster child” for Google’s anticompetitive practices.
Twitter took down a video tweeted by President Donald Trump yesterday due to a copyright claim related to the presence of a 5-second clip from a video by music group Nickelback which had been edited to mock Joe Biden.
Eight people have been charged with conspiring to violate federal copyright law regarding TV show and movie streaming. The indicted individuals have allegedly been running some of the largest pirate streaming sites on the Internet, boasting 100,000 TV episodes and a library described by the DOJ as larger than Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime.
Dave Matthews, Anderson Paak and Maren Morris are forming a new lobbying group to represent artists’ interests across the Internet.
The European Parliament has passed the Copyright Directive, a controversial new law that will make tech companies liable for copyright-infringing content hosted on their platforms, against the warnings of campaigners who say that the law risks chilling free speech online.
A man who uploaded the 2016 movie Deadpool to Facebook could face six months in prison, according to a report.
UKIP Scotland MEP David Coburn branded the EU’s new copyright proposals an “enormous strike against free speech on the Internet” in the European Parliament, before being howled down by establishment politicians and cut off by the parliament’s president.
EU MEPs Vote Against ‘Meme Censor’ Internet Copyright Law
The European Parliament has voted to delay new copyright laws that would have required the monitoring of all online uploads and could have effectively outlawed meme culture.
