The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) has sued Roblox for letting users upload music from Ariana Grande, Imagine Dragons, deadmau5, and other artists without paying a licensing fee. But searching for partial terms like “Sheeran” or “Ariana” will pull up tracks labeled with popular songs from both artists.

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2022

The whole scheme might help illustrate why art can’t be reduced to a neat series of copyright licenses — rather than simply showing that “crypto bros aren’t sure how rights work.”. Buying Dune’s script doesn’t give you the copyright — but it earns you lots of publicity. That said, a lot of them probably aren’t.

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2021

The deal extends an existing collaboration that included a 2020 Lil Nas X concert inside Roblox as well as a 2021 virtual dance party with Swedish artist Zara Larsson. Roblox’s popularity has earned it positive and negative attention from the music industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

But companies including OpenAI , Midjourney and Stability AI are currently embroiled in lawsuits over their generative AI technologies, which some accuse of replicating the works of artists without fairly compensating them. They’re largely low-paid, independent contractors to large companies who look to cost-cut, Keyes notes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

No doubt eager to avoiding wading into the copyright controversy around generative AI, Nvidia says that it’s collaborating with another party, Getty Images, to train “responsible” generative text-to-image and text-to-video models.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Assuming Poly broadly catches on, it and its generative AI rivals run the risk of upsetting the artist community — not only because they might threaten livelihoods but because generative AI systems have been shown to regurgitate the data on which they were trained (e.g. ” Image Credits: Poly. existing art assets).

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. In 2011, YouTube started letting people post their videos with Creative Commons licenses. The standard YouTube license is restrictive. CC BY is the most permissive CC license.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The strongest case for copyright protection would be “look and feel” — and Cirulli’s game, with its autumnal palette, was a far cry from Wohlwend’s tri-color animations. When he published 2048 to Github, Cirulli released it under the MIT License , an agreement that allows anyone to use, copy, or sell a work without limitations.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The latest fight over infringing music on Twitch has left streamers stranded on the battlefield Twitch partner Kate Stark was in a meeting when she got an email from Twitch saying some of her videos had copyrighted music in them and had been deleted. And it’s true: Twitch has for years tolerated copyright infringement on its platform.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Now he wanted to license Crypto Painter out, and Backpack Boyz was his first stop. It kind of blew up,” says Lee, a former Hollywood visual effects artist who goes by @cryptopainter online. Oh, and he wants to license his ape to a local political candidate. ETH (about $3,000 USD today). Image: Richard Lee.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Occasionally, some of that trickles back in the form of one-off gallery sales, or copyright royalties. When the online shops were up and running, they’d still need to navigate another problem: only a handful of residents had cars and driver’s licenses, and the nearest full-service post office was over 30 miles away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2006

I really, really, really wanted to put a smile emoticon :-) in the face but damn it isn't licensed under Creative Commons By License. Update: Here's an email response I received from Amalyah who is an IP for museums expert: Munch's works are still protected by copyright, the term of which runs not. is that violating copyright?)

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

August 1, 2023 China requires AI apps to obtain an administrative license Multiple generative AI apps have been removed from Apple’s China App Store ahead of the country’s latest generative AI regulations that are set to take effect August 15. “As Who owns the copyright on ChatGPT-created content or media?

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

As artists fight to protect their works from being used to train AI models, Jack Dorsey wants to eliminate intellectual property (IP) laws altogether. Anderson asked whether OpenAI had a licensing deal with the Peanuts estate. Elon Musk agrees. Elon Musk, the current leader of X, chimed in to comment , "I agree."

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Futurism

MARCH 28, 2025

The viral trend, and OpenAI's chaotic response, reignited a heated debate surrounding copyright and the use of generative AI directly undermining the work of human artists and publishers including the extremely talented animators at Ghibli. But so far, there isn't any legal precedent to determine whether OpenAI broke US copyright law.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

The viral moment quickly turned into questions of copyright infringement and IP theft as users wondered whether OpenAI trained GPT-4o on Studio Ghibli films without permission. The technical distinction that theoretically lets OpenAI off the hook is that ChatGPT can generate "broader studio styles" but not individual styles of living artists.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Those systems can generate new works of authorship, such as software programs, artistic works, and articles and white papers. You must ensure that you have the necessary rights and licenses to use and distribute these works, as well as being transparent about who/what created such works.

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Engadget

APRIL 16, 2025

Like other streaming services, Deezer offers methods for independent artists to upload their own music without having to be part of a larger licensing deal with a record label. While that lowers some barriers, it also leaves the door open for music that isn't made by people at all. Clearly, people are taking advantage of the option.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Its not artificial intelligence, where nobody controls the copyright, says The Bachelor music supervisor Jody Friedman. It can be licensed directly from artists, or from sync agents, production music libraries or a one stop, what supervisors call a company that has the rights to license both the master recording and the composition rights.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“We see the opportunity to make innovations in usability, user experience and expressive power to create tools that professional artists and businesses can benefit from.” ” A separate but related issue pertains to the artists whose artwork was used to train Unstable Diffusion’s models.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

In addition, the startup will release what it calls “benchmark” models under a permissive license that can be used for any purpose — commercial or otherwise — as well as compute to train the models. That will make Stability AI the first to release an image generation model nearly as high-fidelity as DALL-E 2.

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