Copyright

Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content

Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader?

Legal10 Jan 2025 | 26

3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error

Worker copy-pasted wrong YouTube URL, says ChainPatrol

AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 57

Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain

Opinion It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want

AI + ML22 Dec 2024 | 143

Pirate programmer walks the plank for role in massive TV streaming operation

US considers the cases concerning Jetflicks to be the largest of their kind

Personal Tech18 Nov 2024 | 32

Canada passes new right to repair rules with the same old problem

No mention of how to get the tools to bypass software locks means owner still legally beholden to OEMs

Personal Tech12 Nov 2024 | 10

Judge tosses publishers' copyright suit against OpenAI

Raw Story and AltNet allowed to amend complaint

AI + ML08 Nov 2024 | 25

iFixit to the rescue: McDonald's workers can rescue their own ice cream machines

Burger me! Partial success in chipping away at insane DMCA rules

Software29 Oct 2024 | 59

OpenAI to reveal secret training data in copyright case – for lawyers' eyes only

Counsel for aggrieved authors will view info in a secure room, without internet access, and no devices present

AI + ML26 Sep 2024 | 16

Of course the Internet Archive’s digital lending broke the law, appeals court says

Sorry, no, you can’t just digitize, share copyrighted books without permission

Personal Tech05 Sep 2024 | 93

Shein, Temu escalate epic e-commerce squabble

Chinese fast fashion slingers get their Spider-Man meme moment

Legal21 Aug 2024 | 45

Writers sue Anthropic for feeding 'stolen' copyrighted work into Claude

Another day, another lawsuit over how AI lands training sets

AI + ML20 Aug 2024 | 35

Big Music reprises classic hit 'ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we'll sue'

Stop us if you think you've heard this one before: Legal supergroup demands billions from Verizon

Personal Tech16 Jul 2024 | 86

Breaking the rules is in Big Tech's blood – now it's time to break the habit

Opinion Microsoft: All your data are belong to us? World: That's so last century

AI + ML08 Jul 2024 | 39

Nintendo sues alleged Switch pirate pair for serious coin

And if court finds for gaming giant? It's-a me! Bankruptcy!

Legal02 Jul 2024 | 20

Microsoft CEO of AI: Your online content is 'freeware' fodder for training models

Unless you've got a lawyer, that is

AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 60

Snowflake breach snowballs as more victims, perps, come forward

Infosec in brief Also: The leaked Apple internal tools that weren't; TV pirate pirates convicted; and some critical vulns, too

Security24 Jun 2024 | 9

Adobe users just now getting upset over content scanning allowance in Terms of Use

Updated Update that triggered web rage didn't really change much – Photoshop slinger has always been able to scan your stuff

AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 57

Gentoo and NetBSD ban 'AI' code, but Debian doesn't – yet

Comment The problem isn't just that LLM-bot generated code is bad – it's where it came from

AI + ML18 May 2024 | 45

UK inertia on LLMs and copyright is 'de facto endorsement'

Lords committee slams government response to complaints from creators

AI + ML03 May 2024 | 29

MPs ask: Why is it so freakin' hard to get AI giants to pay copyright holders?

Agreement on consent and compensation has failed to materialize

AI + ML11 Apr 2024 | 58

US House mulls forcing AI makers to reveal use of copyrighted training data

Proposed law doesn't include any ban on use of such stuff to build models, mind you

AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 16

Bon Jovi, Billy Eilish, other musicians implore AI devs to think of humanity

Using copyrighted material to train models affects artists' livelihoods, says open letter

AI + ML03 Apr 2024 | 45

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 | 126

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 | 7

Martin Goetz, recipient of the first software patent, logs off at 93

Obituary The industry owes him a debt of gratitude

Software23 Oct 2023 | 23

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