Topic: fair use
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The AI Terms That Dominated 2025
Distillation is a key AI technique where a large "teacher" model transfers its knowledge to a smaller, more efficient "student" model, enabling sophisticated AI to run on devices with limited power. The rise of AI-generated "slop"—low-quality, mass-produced content—and issues like sycophancy in c...
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Why I Changed My Mind About Getting Paid by Anthropic
Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement for authors whose copyrighted books were used without permission to train its AI model Claude, with authors potentially receiving at least $3,000 per affected book. The settlement raises the ethical question of whether AI firms should compensate creat...
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Judge Halts Anthropic's $1.5B Book Piracy Settlement
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and authors, citing concerns that authors felt pressured to accept terms negotiated without sufficient transparency. The judge questioned the fairness of the deal and demanded clearer data on the number of books i...
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AI Can Recreate Entire Novels from Training Data
New research shows advanced AI models can be prompted to reproduce entire copyrighted books from their training data, directly challenging industry claims that models do not retain copies and undermining a key defense in ongoing lawsuits. Studies reveal sophisticated language models memorize far ...
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News Outlaws Win Access to 20M ChatGPT Logs, Demand More
A federal judge has ordered OpenAI to provide news organizations with access to 20 million de-identified ChatGPT user logs, rejecting the company's privacy objections and marking a significant legal setback. The plaintiffs, including major publishers, need the full dataset to assess OpenAI's fair...
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Record Labels Sue Suno AI for Allegedly Stealing Songs from YouTube
Major record labels have escalated their lawsuit against AI startup Suno, accusing it of pirating music from YouTube to train its AI models through unlawful "stream ripping." The lawsuit alleges Suno violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by circumventing YouTube's encryption technology, w...
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People CEO Accuses Google of Stealing Content, Calls It a 'Bad Actor'
The CEO of People, Inc. accuses Google of using a single crawler to both index content for search and scrape material for AI products without compensation. This practice has led to a significant drop in search referral traffic for publishers while enabling Google to use their content to train com...
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Anthropic to Pay Authors $1.5B in AI Copyright Deal
Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit over copyright infringement, setting a major precedent for AI companies and compensating authors approximately $3,000 per work. The settlement applies to an estimated 500,000 works and may expand, with Anthropic n...
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Anthropic's $1.5B Copyright Deal Shortchanges Writers
A $1.5 billion settlement will pay at least $3,000 each to half a million writers, resolving a class action lawsuit against Anthropic for using copyrighted books without permission. The settlement penalizes Anthropic for sourcing books through piracy rather than purchase, but does not address the...
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Anthropic Settles AI Copyright Lawsuit with Book Authors
Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a major class action lawsuit over AI copyright infringement, avoiding potentially catastrophic financial damages. The lawsuit originated from authors accusing Anthropic of unlawfully using their copyrighted books to train AI models, with a judge r...
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Anthropic Settles AI Copyright Lawsuit With Authors
Anthropic has confidentially settled a class action lawsuit with authors over the use of copyrighted books to train its AI models, ending a legal battle that raised questions about fair use and intellectual property. The lawsuit, Bartz v. Anthropic, centered on whether using books for AI training...
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Perplexity AI Partners with Getty Images in Major Licensing Deal
Perplexity AI has secured a multi-year licensing deal with Getty Images, allowing legal use of its image library to enhance AI-driven search platforms and address past content scraping concerns. The partnership legitimizes Perplexity's prior use of Getty's imagery, which had faced plagiarism accu...
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Disney & OpenAI: A Game-Changer for AI Copyright
Disney and OpenAI have formed a strategic partnership, granting OpenAI a license to use Disney characters in its Sora video model while Disney receives a financial stake and internal access to the technology. This collaboration represents a pragmatic shift for Disney, which historically litigates...
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New York Times Sues Perplexity Over Copyright
The New York Times has sued AI company Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging its products use and repackage Times content without permission or payment, substituting for the newspaper's own offerings. The lawsuit, part of a broader industry campaign, aims to pressure AI firms into forma...
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Is Art Dead? How Sora 2 Impacts Your Rights & Creativity
Advanced AI video generators like Sora 2 are raising significant legal and ethical questions about intellectual property rights and creative authenticity, challenging the definition of art in the digital age. The rapid adoption of Sora 2 has led to widespread misuse, prompting legal actions and p...
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Disney Sues Google Over AI Copyright Infringement
Disney has issued a cease-and-desist letter to Google, alleging its AI models (like Veo and Gemini) have engaged in widespread copyright infringement by generating Disney characters and stories without permission. Disney accuses Google of willfully leveraging its market dominance to profit from t...
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MPA Slams OpenAI for Sora 2 Copyright Opt-Outs
The Motion Picture Association demands OpenAI take immediate action against copyright infringement involving its Sora 2 video tool, criticizing the opt-out system for unfairly burdening creators. OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has promised updates to give copyright holders more control but has not commi...
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Warner Bros. Sues Midjourney Over AI-Generated DC Characters
Warner Bros. is suing Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging the AI company allows users to generate unauthorized images of characters like Superman and Batman. The lawsuit claims Midjourney knowingly removed safeguards against copyright infringement to maximize profits, despite being aw...
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Instagram ordered to stop using 'PG-13' teen accounts
The Motion Picture Association has demanded Meta stop using its "PG-13" trademark to describe content restrictions for teen Instagram accounts, calling the comparison inaccurate and misleading. The MPA argues that Meta's use of the rating threatens public trust in its established system and did n...
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YouTube Now Detects Likeness for All Monetized Creators
YouTube is expanding its likeness detection feature to all YouTube Partner Program creators, enabling them to identify unauthorized AI-generated videos using their face. Eligible creators must verify their identity via a mobile device and ID scan to access a dashboard that flags matching videos, ...
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AI Musician Lands Multi-Million Dollar Record Deal
A human artist secured a $3 million record deal for her AI-generated persona, Xania Monet, whose song topped the R&B chart, showcasing the convergence of human creativity and AI in the music industry. The AI platform used to create Monet's music is facing a major lawsuit for copyright infringemen...
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Jack Dorsey Backs diVine: A Vine Reboot With Original Archive
diVine, a new app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, revives the six-second looping video format with over 100,000 archived Vine clips and allows users to create profiles and upload new videos, while actively blocking AI-generated content to ensure authenticity. The project was funded by D...
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