The MPA plans to collaborate with Congress on piracy website-blocking legislation
The MPA CEO called pirates "real-life mobsters" who engage in child pornography
OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train its LLMs, Google engaged in same practice
Meta reportedly considered equally shady tactics, too
The New York Times issues DMCA takedown requests against Wordle imitators
The Times bought Wordle in 2022
Yuzu developer pays Nintendo $2.4 million to settle lawsuit, ceases all Switch and 3DS emulator operations
Nintendo got what it wanted, as usual
Data Governance and Provenance: Two words that are critical to the future of generative AI
Using "borrowed" material for training. Fair use or not?
Three more publishers sue OpenAI over ChatGPT copyright infringement claims
The New York Times is in the middle of a similar lawsuit against OpenAI
OpenAI accuses New York Times of paying someone to "hack" ChatGPT
A questionable use of the word "hack"
Nintendo aims to shut down popular Switch emulator Yuzu through lawsuit
Nintendo says Yuzu is "facilitating piracy at a colossal scale"
The Pokémon Company is investigating Palworld and the potential for IP violation
The second game to ever reach 2 million concurrent players on Steam
GTA 5 Michael actor Ned Luke slams AI chatbot that uses his voice without permission
He also reveals that clones of his voice were used in racist rants
Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it
The company is preparing a fair use-based defense after using copyrighted material
OpenAI to regulators: Training AI models without copyrighted material is "impossible"
Can companies use publicly available data to train LLMs?
The New York Times files copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft
The Times makes plenty of damning claims in its suit
Dbrand takes legal action against Casetify for allegedly stealing its Teardown designs
Hard to argue with this evidence
Fake Disney posters prompt Microsoft to reprogram Bing Image Creator
Or why we will never have true artificial intelligence
Nintendo's updated social media guidelines target modified games, leaks from data mining
Nintendo constantly finds new ways to annoy people
A Florida company called "X" is suing Elon Musk's X over trademark infringement
It's unlikely to be the only one
The UFC, NBA, and NFL ask the government for "instantaneous" DMCA takedowns of illegal streams
The leagues say processing current DMCA takedown requests takes too long
Judge rules that AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted
Humans must be involved in the creation process
The Internet Archive reaches an agreement with publishers in digital book-lending case
A hot potato: The Internet Archive is a digital library founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996 around the idea of "universal access to all knowledge." The Archive provides free, worldwide access to countless movies, music, software, video games, internet websites, and books. Publishers don't like that, as the IA is seemingly infringing their copyright.
Music publishers sue Twitter for $250 million over copyright infringement claims
They cite Musk's description of DMCA as a "plague on humanity"
Music company wants Google to delist a Wikipedia page about YouTube rippers
Overstepping the mark a little?
Dolphin emulator's Steam launch blocked by Nintendo DMCA notice to Valve
It's a me, the lawyer
Dbrand's message to Nintendo over Zelda-clone decals: "Go f*** yourself lawyers"
Nintendo loves to sue, but Dbrand says bring it on