TechSpot

DECEMBER 8, 2023

One of the groups at the forefront of this fight is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which has filed an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court providing an overview of the copyright trolling problem. Read Entire Article The filing is part of the Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy case, which does not.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It's no secret that LLMs use swaths of information from the internet as training data, but the NYT claims in its copyright infringement lawsuit that its content has been given "particular emphasis." Read Entire Article The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, claims that the companies "seek to free-ride on the Times's massive.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 15, 2025

The publishers argue that OpenAI's practices amount to copyright infringement on a massive scale, potentially threatening the future of journalism. Read Entire Article The case has merged lawsuits from three publishers: The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

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Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

Hollywood studios would not enforce copyright on these videos. This article originally appeared on Engadget at [link] As it turns out, major movie studios have actually been making money from the videos, according to reporting by Deadline. The scheme worked sort of like a mob shakedown.

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TechSpot

JUNE 16, 2023

The Tennesse lawsuit alleges that Twitter "fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions, violating Publishers' and others' exclusive rights under copyright law." Read Entire Article

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Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

The trend had raised concerns, yet again, about the legality of using copyrighted work as training data for artificial intelligence. pic.twitter.com/fnen1aDjNZ OpenAI (@OpenAI) March 25, 2025 This article originally appeared on Engadget at [link] "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself," the director said.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Howell upheld the finding by the US Copyright Office that a piece of AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, writes the Hollywood Reporter. Read Entire Article United States District Court Judge Beryl A. The agency had refused to grant a patent to Stephen Thaler, who wanted an AI-generated image he produced with the Creativity.

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TechSpot

MARCH 12, 2025

Meta openly admitted to using the Book3 dataset, a well-known 37GB compilation of 195,000 copyrighted books used by developers to train LLMs. Read Entire Article In January 2024, a group of writers filed a lawsuit in California against Meta for using their works to train various versions of the Llama large language model.

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TechSpot

MARCH 18, 2025

Read Entire Article Over 400 actors, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and more signed the letter sent to the White House, including Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo, Cate Blanchett, Paul McCartney, and Ron Howard, reports The Wrap.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Read Entire Article , features recordings of empty studios and performance spaces. Organizers say this represents the potential impact on artists' livelihoods, and creativity in general, should the government's plans go ahead.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Researchers gathered more than a thousand training examples from the models, which ranged from individual person photographs to film stills, copyrighted news images, and trademarked firm logos, and discovered that the AI reproduced many of them almost identically. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The US Copyright Office has dealt a significant blow to video game preservation efforts by denying a request for a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) exemption, allowing libraries to provide remote access to preserved video games. The decision, announced last week, marks the fourth time since 2015 that the copyright.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 10, 2024

OpenAI recently told members of the House of Lords that it is "impossible" to train large language models (LLMs) without using copyrighted material. Read Entire Article The claim was in response to the UK's Communications and Digital Select Committee, which is looking into the legal issues involving current AI systems.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 21, 2024

Read Entire Article Writers and journalists Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson brought the lawsuit, which seeks class action status.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Judge Bibas rejected Ross Intelligence's fair use defense, a key argument used by AI companies in copyright disputes. Read Entire Article The case, filed in 2020, accused Ross Intelligence of reproducing materials from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw legal research database to build a competing AI-powered legal platform.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 16, 2025

Stanford law professor Mark Lemley represented Meta in a 2023 copyright case in which the company used a data set containing copyrighted e-books to train its LLMs, something it says should be considered fair use. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Read Entire Article According to internal Slack chats, emails, spreadsheets, and several other sources obtained by 404 Media, Nvidia asked workers to download videos from various online platforms to compile data to train its Omniverse, autonomous vehicles, and digital human products.

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TechSpot

MARCH 25, 2025

The file sharing service made it trivially easy for the average Joe to share and download copyrighted music with others online, threatening the livelihood of artists and record labels. Read Entire Article Legal issues proved to be Napster's undoing, with the service.

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TechSpot

MARCH 26, 2025

The lawsuit claimed Anthropic was violating US copyright laws with its actions. Read Entire Article UMG, Concord and ABKCO sued Anthropic in 2023 over claims that it used lyrics from at least 500 songs by musicians including Beyonce, the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys, to train Claude without permission.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When they break, and they break often, understanding the error codes and accessing the secret, locked service menu requires calling an expensive ($315 per 15 minutes, Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and its close collaborator (and investor), Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content.

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TechSpot

APRIL 11, 2024

Copyrighted material is off limits, as is footage containing nudity or other inappropriate or offensive content. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

MAY 14, 2024

Things got off to a rocky start after an app called iGBA was pulled from the App Store less than a week after its debut over violating spam and copyright violations. Read Entire Article The next app to try its luck, an emulator known as Delta, did things the right way and quickly.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 19, 2025

According to Japanese media, this marks the first arrest in the country for circumventing the portable device's copyright protection. Read Entire Article A 58-year-old man from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, was arrested for selling modified Nintendo Switch consoles designed to play pirated games.

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TechSpot

JULY 10, 2024

Generative AI's true value remains uncertain, and controversies over reliability and copyright haven't faded. Read Entire Article Despite the resources tech giants have recently poured into AI PCs, IDC data suggests their spread into the market will take years, and developers are slow to utilize them.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Monday night, Congress approved an over $2 trillion government spending and coronavirus relief package that included a handful of controversial copyright and trademark measures. The news circulated all across the internet; in a poorly headlined Hollywood Reporter article, tweets, and YouTube videos. Copyright is messy.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 29, 2025

Read Entire Article The symposium brought together prosecutors, industry representatives, and anti-piracy experts to discuss the latest piracy trends and potential solutions. TorrentFreak reports that when it came to new measures, site blocking was heavily pushed as an effective remedy that the US has been lacking.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

At the same time, many generative video tools also highlight questions and challenges around content ownership and copyright. Read Entire Article Some of these have become a key part of larger discussions on the development and evolution of AI-powered tools.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The NYT sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December for using millions of its articles to train their systems without permission or compensation. The suit states that millions of the Times' copyrighted news pieces, in-depth investigations, opinion features, reviews, how-to guides, and more were used to train the chatbots, which now.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The European Union Intellectual Property Office's most recent biannual report on copyright infringement in the UK and Europe makes for some interesting reading. Read Entire Article Based on data from MUSO, a UK tracking firm, the years-long decline in piracy traffic has reversed since the start of 2021.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In its suit filed in US federal court, Nintendo alleges that Yuzu violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Read Entire Article

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MARCH 21, 2007

Interesting article over at the icommons.org site called CC Licensing Practice Reviewed Alek Tarkowski, ccPoland It mentions an experiment in a dutch town where they removed the traffic signs or the rules. As noted in the article, Once rules are removed, people become considerate. iron cage of copyright???

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TechSpot

MARCH 17, 2025

Flash's ability to remove watermarks from licensed work, a practice that is deemed illegal by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Read Entire Article Social media is abuzz with Gemini 2.0 Such images litter stock photography services although in many cases, an identifying logo, text, or pattern is used to discourage unauthorized use.

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TechSpot

MARCH 5, 2024

It alleged that the Yuzu emulator violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and that it is primarily designed to break the several layers of Switch encryption so users can. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JANUARY 13, 2024

A group of authors filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging the unlawful use of copyrighted material in developing its Llama 1 and Llama 2 large language models. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Internet Archive was recently found guilty of copyright infringement in a case related to its Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) service, which provides users with free access to a digital library of books. US District Judge John Koeltl decided that the IA infringed the copyright of four publishers when it. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Bungie launched its lawsuit against cheat seller AimJunkies.com and the alleged creators of the Destiny 2 hack software, Phoenix Digital Group, in 2021, alleging copyright and trademark infringement. Read Entire Article

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