Stories tagged “Copyright.”
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Japan's Cabinet Office has proposed a revised Principle-Code for generative AI businesses that sets out principles on intellectual property protection, including avoiding crawling pirate sites, respecting access restrictions, and increasing transparency around how busines…
The legality of training AI models on copyrighted books is complex, with recent court rulings distinguishing between lawful AI training and the illegal acquisition of data, while also grappling with outdated copyright laws.
Weak copyright protection could undermine Nigeria’s N1.97 trillion creative economy – Experts
Experts warn that Nigeria's N1.97 trillion creative economy is at risk due to weak intellectual property protection and rampant copyright infringement, hindering young creatives from building sustainable careers.
A mysterious trend is happening in the used book market. Over the past few months, used book sellers have noticed a peculiar pattern of large orders for novels, which are then shipped to distant warehouses. This has left many wondering if the reason behind this surge is a…
Independent booksellers are reporting a surge in bulk purchases of secondhand books, often shipped to warehouses, leading to suspicions that AI companies are acquiring them for training. This trend is linked to a US court ruling that deemed using purchased books for AI tr…
AI-generated song service Suno is implementing audio watermarking, fingerprinting, and updated community guidelines to combat misuse and copyright infringement, amidst multiple lawsuits from music labels and artists.
Disney and TikTok have partnered to allow creators to legally use clips from Disney's vast film and TV library in their videos, which will also be shared on Disney's Verts platform. This aims to boost fan engagement and creator content.
Sinach wins ₦5 billion ‘Way Maker’ copyright battle as court dismisses producer’s suit
A Federal High Court in Lagos dismissed a ₦5 billion copyright lawsuit against gospel singer Sinach over her global hit "Way Maker." The court ruled that producer Michael "Maye" Oluwole failed to prove co-authorship or co-ownership of the song.
A German court ruled against AI music startup Suno in a copyright lawsuit brought by music rights organization GEMA. The court found that Suno violated copyright law by using music from GEMA's catalog to train its AI models and by reproducing protected works without a lic…
Major record labels, including Universal, Sony, and Warner, have proposed new rules to prevent AI-generated music from being eligible for international charts, requiring songs to be "substantially human made."
AI companies are anonymously buying physical books in bulk and destroying them after scanning them for AI training. This has raised fears that rare books are disappearing, and a federal judge has ruled that destructive scanning of legally purchased books can qualify as fa…
Artists across various disciplines are filing lawsuits against major AI companies like Google, Meta, and Anthropic, alleging copyright infringement and terms of service violations for using their work to train AI models.
The Delhi High Court has held that internet service providers (ISPs) and domain name registrars (DNRs) cannot determine whether a website is a 'rogue website' and block it at the request of copyright owners. Instead, they may only carry out a technical verification to con…
A high-quality copy of Christopher Nolan's new film, The Odyssey, was reportedly viewed by millions on X (formerly Twitter) before being taken down. The leak occurred despite the director's emphasis on a large-screen cinematic experience.
The Delhi High Court denied an interim injunction to Asian News International (ANI) in its copyright infringement suit against OpenAI, ruling that ANI failed to establish a prima facie case. The court found OpenAI's use of copyrighted material for training likely falls un…
A federal judge approved Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors over allegedly pirated books used for AI training.
China's AI models have Trump's AI world at war with itself. The launch of Kimi, a free, open-source model from Chinese AI company Moonshot, has revived calls for restrictions on Chinese AI models. The Trump administration is weighing a ban on Chinese AI models, but offici…
The US Justice Department has seized over 1,000 websites and blocked 1,970 domains used to stream FIFA World Cup 2026 matches without authorization.
Sony has filed another lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, accusing it of infringing on copyrighted works on a massive scale. The new lawsuit involves 30,117 recordings that Udio allegedly used without permission to train its models.
A federal judge has approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement in a class action copyright lawsuit, allowing the AI lab to compensate authors and publishers for illegally downloaded books.
Sony Music Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of over 30,000 of its songs. The lawsuit claims that Udio 'copied and ingested' these songs into its generative AI models.
A US judge has approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its AI chatbot Claude.
X and major music publishers have settled their three-year-long legal battle over copyright infringement. The terms of the settlement remain undisclosed.
A public interest litigation has been filed before the Delhi High Court alleging that organised syndicates are filing fabricated copyright complaints against Instagram creators to trigger automated account suspensions, then demanding lakhs of rupees to withdraw them.
Hacked files reveal AI music generator Suno was trained on millions of songs scraped from platforms like YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius, fueling ongoing copyright lawsuits.
The Delhi High Court has directed Meta to take down multiple Facebook URLs allegedly hosting Zee's copyrighted content without authorisation. Zee argued that several Facebook pages were illegally streaming clips from its television programmes, allowing users to watch the …
A case before the Delhi High Court alleges that Meta's automated copyright enforcement system can be manipulated to remove creators' videos. Financial educator Pushkar Raj Thakur claims that bad actors exploited a loophole in Meta's system by uploading unrelated content a…
A group of news publishers led by The New York Times has asked a US federal court to sanction OpenAI, accusing the company of misleading the court about its ability to search for copyrighted news content used to train its AI models and of deleting or making billions of Ch…
The New York Times and The Daily News claim that OpenAI has been lying about its ability to search customer chat log data and training datasets for their copyrighted works. OpenAI has argued that it lacked the ability to search its own training corpus, but the outlets sou…
AI-related copyright losses cost celebrities up to ¥4.5 billion, study says
A study by the Japan Publicity Right Protection Organization found that over 43,000 AI-generated deepfakes using celebrities' likenesses without consent led to copyright losses of up to ¥4.5 billion. The study also found that only 28% of companies were aware of the full s…