Copyright

Appeals court blocks Trump bid to ax top copyright official in AI spat

It all started with a May report saying that some bot training may need licensing or permission

Legal11 Sep 2025 | 14

Asahi, Nikkei sue AI search outfit Perplexity for copyright infringement

Tokyo filing adds to mounting actions against startup

AI + ML26 Aug 2025 | 3

No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockers

UPDATED Could tinkering with a site’s code to hide ads count as infringement?

Legal15 Aug 2025 | 137

AI data-suckers would have to ask permission first under new bill

If it passes, the law would redefine the boundaries of fair use

AI + ML24 Jul 2025 | 10

EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute

Just because a student reads a book doesn't mean Midjourney gets to eat Disney

AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 40

Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her

Shira Perlmutter lost her job after her office published report on generative AI and fair use limits

AI + ML04 Jul 2025 | 63

Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers

ai-pocalypse The bargain between content makers and crawlers has broken down

AI + ML01 Jul 2025 | 21

More trouble for authors as Meta wins Llama drama AI scraping case

Updated Authors are having a hard time protecting their works from the maws of the LLM makers

AI + ML27 Jun 2025 | 20

LLMs can hoover up data from books, judge rules

Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copies

AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 63

Paul McCartney, Elton John, other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping

Musicians, artists, writers, actors urge government to protect copyright

AI + ML12 May 2025 | 42

US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

Some see an action to benefit Elon. The White House sees an agency obsessed with DEI

AI + ML12 May 2025 | 113

AI training license will allow LLM builders to pay for content they consume

Updated UK org backing it promises 'legal certainty' for devs, money for creators... but is it too late?

AI + ML24 Apr 2025 | 45

Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back

Opinion I was into Adversarial Noise before they were famous

AI + ML22 Apr 2025 | 71

It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter

Opinion Miyazaki, copyright protection and the 'insult to life itself' of AI images

AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 82

Meta's AI, built on ill-gotten content, can probably build a digital you

Column Llama 4 Scout is just the right size to ingest a lifetime of Facebook and Insta posts

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 28

Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it

Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come for a feast

AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 35

On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia

Opinion Think tank report backs data mining for machine learning, leaving artists and rights holders behind

AI + ML03 Apr 2025 | 44

Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it

Interview 'There needs to be a better economic as well as copyright framework', Thomson Reuters CPO tells us

AI + ML01 Apr 2025 | 21

Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content

Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet

AI + ML21 Mar 2025 | 49

Do AI robo-authors qualify for copyright? It's still no, says appeals court

Updated Computer scientist Stephen Thaler again told his 'Creativity Machine' can't earn a ©

AI + ML18 Mar 2025 | 30

We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is

Indie browser maker asks judge for legal shield against copyright threats over AI summaries

AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 44

Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder

Facebook giant allegedly didn't want neural networks to emit results that would give the game away

AI + ML11 Mar 2025 | 24

A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap

You gotta fight ... for your Reuters ... to party

AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 34

Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data

But 'original sin' has already been committed, shrugs industry

AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 50

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 | 8

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