New York Times: OpenAI’s claim we 'hacked' its products both 'irrelevant' and 'false' Media giant's counterfiling accuses AI darling of 'spin' in copyright infringement case AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 3
Filing NeMo: Nvidia's AI framework hit with copyright lawsuit Claims allegedly pirated content from Books3 dataset trawled by its models AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 8
Microsoft: Copyright law didn't stop the VCR and shouldn't stop the LLM Updated Lawyers argue content used to train LLMs does not 'supplant the market' for news AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 38
OpenAI sued, again, for scraping and replicating news stories The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet want damages and to have their content removed from models AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 17
OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT Super lab alleges 'deceptive prompts' that it happily processed - and may have tracked - weren't fair, so case should be dismissed AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 26
Judge crosses out some claims by writers against OpenAI, lets them have another crack at it Updated Scribes may have a point about unfair competition, direct copyright infringement AI + ML14 Feb 2024 | 12
Thar be safe harbor: Reddit defeats third attempt to unmask digital pirates First Amendment is a rule, not a guideline, says judge Personal Tech13 Feb 2024 | 12
Universal Music accuses TikTok of 'intimidation' and threats to replace humans with AI Made-in-China social network allegedly made lowball licensing offer and abused its platform power AI + ML31 Jan 2024 | 16
Non-profit startup offers certifications for AI models that respect creators' rights 'Fairly Trained', founded by a former AI exec who quit over the issue, hopes consumer activism spurs adoption AI + ML19 Jan 2024 | 5
GitHub Copilot copyright case narrowed but not neutered Microsoft and OpenAI fail to shake off AI infringement allegations AI + ML12 Jan 2024 | 13
OpenAI: 'Impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials' As IEEE study shows super lab's neural nets can emit 'plagiaristic output' AI + ML08 Jan 2024 | 125
What the AI copyright fights are truly about: Human labor versus endless machines Kettle The real beef concerns our future to create and be rewarded for it AI + ML03 Jan 2024 | 42
Science fiction writers imagine a future in which AI doesn’t abuse copyright – or their generosity Association offers utopian vision of authors and model-makers bargaining over the price at which to opt-in for content scraping AI + ML15 Dec 2023 | 67
Getty's image-scraping sueball against Stability AI will go to trial in the UK Computer-generated image maker fails to quash case on its claimed home turf AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 25
Author hopes to throw the book at OpenAI, Microsoft with copyright class action Stop us if you've heard this one before AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 28
Microsoft dials back Bing after users manage to recreate Disney logo in fake AI-generated images AI In Brief Plus: Amazon lays off hundreds of employees working on Alexa, and more AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 38
AI copyright row deepens: Stability VP quits in protest over 'fair use' excuse Refuses to sing from the corporate songbook on the legal grounds for training neural nets on people's work AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 24
To pay or not to pay for AI's creative 'borrowing' – that is the question One that Microsoft and Meta dodged during House of Lords committee AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 54
Google sues scammers peddling fake malware-riddled Bard chatbot download Updated Plus: Chocolate Factory launches second lawsuit against false DMCA takedowns Cyber-crime14 Nov 2023 | 13
FTC interrupts Copyright Office probe to flip out over potential AI fraud, abuse Sir, this is a Wendy's AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 22
Judge bins AI copyright lawsuit against DeviantArt, Midjourney – Stability still in the mix Artists' lawyers vow to fight on AI + ML31 Oct 2023 | 20
Digital Millennium Copyright Act celebrates a quarter century of takedown notices Tracing DMCA's dubious legacy over 25 tech-turbulent years Legal30 Oct 2023 | 8
Martin Goetz, recipient of the first software patent, logs off at 93 Obituary The industry owes him a debt of gratitude Software23 Oct 2023 | 24
Bad Vibrations: Music publishers sue Anthropic AI for using copyrighted lyrics You Can't Always scrape What You Want, even if the lyrics are Blowin' in the (digital) Wind Legal20 Oct 2023 | 19
Google offers some copyright indemnity to users of its generative AI services 'If you are challenged, we will assume responsibility' AI + ML12 Oct 2023 | 8
Getty delivers text-to-image service it says won't get you sued, may get you paid Trained on its own image library that's clear of copyright complications AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 16
Authors Guild sues OpenAI for using Game of Thrones and other novels to train ChatGPT Class action alleges pirated novels were fed into binary brainbox AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 54
Textbook publishers sue shadow library LibGen for copyright infringement Yet another attempt at a permanent takedown – but will it stick? Science18 Sep 2023 | 69
Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon and others sue OpenAI Another would be copyright class action AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 30
Microsoft to shield paid-up Copilot customers from any AI copyright brawls it starts Tough luck, freeloaders: You're on your own AI + ML07 Sep 2023 | 8
Arm wrestles assembly language guru's domains away citing trademark issues Maria Markstedter spent years writing about chip biz's ISA, is a tad miffed by heavy-handed takedown tactics Software31 Aug 2023 | 105
OpenAI urges court to throw out authors' claims in AI copyright battle ChatGPT's prose harvesting protected by fair use, super-lab argues AI + ML31 Aug 2023 | 42
Judge snuffs man's quest to have AI-created art protected by copyright 'A Recent Entrance to Paradise' lost AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 20
Internet Archive sued by record labels as battle with book publishers intensifies Music copyright bomb hits just as other court conflict leads to lending limits Personal Tech14 Aug 2023 | 55
If you're going to train AI on our books, at least pay us, authors tell Big Tech AI in brief Also: OpenAI enters deals with the Associated Press and Shutterstock to license content, and more AI + ML18 Jul 2023 | 19
China sets AI rules that protect IP, people, the planet, and The Party Brainboxes will need a license, but their makers may get to share digital public goods AI + ML14 Jul 2023 | 13
Almost all classic US video games 'critically endangered' Let us borrow titles digitally from libraries like we can books and movies, say 'puter historians Personal Tech11 Jul 2023 | 28
Google says public data is fair game for training its AIs Hey, we're just being honest, says web giant AI + ML06 Jul 2023 | 31
Supreme Court says Genius' song lyric copying claim against Google wasn't smart Website can't use state contract law to police copyrights it doesn't own Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 47
Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 97
Whose line is it anyway, GitHub? Innovation, not litigation, should answer Opinion If Jesus was my Copilot, what would he do? AI + ML19 Jun 2023 | 43
Megaupload programmers cop a plea in New Zealand to avoid extradition Kim Dotcom still fighting decade-long battle to avoid being shipped to US over copyright abuse Legal16 Jun 2023 | 15
Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs Opinion Intellectual property law crushed by zombie horde Software05 Jun 2023 | 111
Meta threatens to pull all news from California rather than pay El Reg a penny And, ahem, other publishers Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 55
OpenAI's ChatGPT may face a copyright quagmire after 'memorizing' these books This top-drawer AI tech has a major science-fiction habit AI + ML03 May 2023 | 91
Publishers land killer punch on Internet Archive in book copyright court battle Analysis Dot-org vows to appeal after judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out isn't fair use Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 49
How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers Updated Digital lending is only fine when we do it Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 112
AI-generated art can be copyrighted, say US officials – with a catch Some non-artificial intelligence needed AI + ML16 Mar 2023 | 36
America: AI artwork is not authored by humans, so can't be protected by copyright Updated Comic sans Midjourney images would be eligible for IP protections AI + ML24 Feb 2023 | 75
Software glitch revokes copyright protection for AI-generated comic book So is AI artwork copyrightable? Not quite as case remains up in the air AI + ML25 Jan 2023 | 16
Midjourney, DeviantArt face lawsuit over AI-made art Updated Lawyer known for GitHub Copilot case to argue artists' legal struggle AI + ML16 Jan 2023 | 61
Belarus legalizes piracy – but citizens will have to pay for it Meanwhile, the regime is angling to pocket the money owed to rightsholders Software10 Jan 2023 | 20
Software company wins $154k for US Navy's licensing breach Court lands on less than the millions asked for after sailors made copies of 3D modeling suite 'hundreds of thousands' of times Legal22 Nov 2022 | 42
How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm Special report AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 75
Indian court directs chat app Telegram to disclose details of copyright infringers Judge says that servers being located in Singapore is not a get-out clause Security02 Sep 2022 | 8
Your AI-generated digital artwork may not be protected by US copyright Do we want to recognise machines as authors? AI + ML14 Aug 2022 | 52
Anti-piracy messaging may just encourage more piracy Behavioral economics study suggests rights holders don't understand psychology Bootnotes02 Aug 2022 | 88
DMCA can't be used to sidestep First Amendment, court rules Anonymous speech protections apply online too, and copyright can't diminish that Legal23 Jun 2022 | 19
US Copyright Office sued for denying AI model authorship of digital image What do we want? Robot rights! When do we want them? 01001110 01101111 01110111! AI + ML07 Jun 2022 | 31
Court erred in Neo4j source license ruling, says Software Freedom Conservancy If decision is upheld, this 'could seriously harm FOSS and copyleft' Software02 Apr 2022 | 30
Russia bans foreign software purchases for critical infrastructure Public agencies told to stop using overseas apps from 2025 as parallel imports approved, too Applications01 Apr 2022 | 64
Russia mulls making software piracy legal and patent licensing compulsory Rule rethink would apply only to those in countries that support sanctions Applications08 Mar 2022 | 124