An artist is suing an AI meme generator for selling his viral comic as ad templates
The "Running Away Balloon" comic went viral for its simplicity, making it easy for others to remix and share
Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors wins final court approval
The deal covers nearly 500,000 books obtained from pirate libraries
Dbrand kills its Portal-inspired Companion Cube case after admitting it never asked Valve for permission
"Unfortunately, being proud of the thing we made did not give us the right to make it"
Old-school crime: man gets suspended jail sentence for burning and selling pirated CDs
Streaming may have replaced discs, but selling pirated CDs can still carry serious consequences
Samsung put Dua Lipa's face on TV boxes without asking. Now she's suing for $15 million
Samsung denies "intentional misuse"
X is using a Supreme Court ruling to try to kill a $250 million music copyright lawsuit
Musk's company says the ruling wipes out the lawsuit's key surviving claim
AI can clone open-source software in minutes, and that's a problem
By simulating "independent" code creation, AI may commercialize community projects without giving back
Patreon rejects "fair use" claims for AI training, calls for creator compensation
CEO Jack Conte says AI firms already pay major publishers but not other independent creators
The US Supreme Court is not interested in enforcing copyright for AI-generated images
Human authorship is still a requirement to put a copyright symbol on some digital content
Sony's new system can identify original tracks inside AI-generated music
Attribution tech could help artists claim compensation
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generator sparks Hollywood outcry after viral clip
ByteDance has announced it will strengthen safeguards
Tencent's Horizon clone Light of Motiram pulled from Steam and Epic after Sony lawsuit ends
The lawsuit has been settled
Fans attempt to resurrect Sony's shooter Concord, but lawyers are already shooting off takedowns
Reverse engineering server code is hard, fighting Sony lawyers is likely impossible
Meta denies torrenting 2,400 porn movies for AI training – says they were for "personal use"
The company behind Vixen, Tushy, Blacked, and Deeper wants $359 million in damages
Sony slams Tencent's "nonsense" defense in Horizon clone lawsuit over Light of Motiram
Sony says Light of Motiram jeopardizes Horizon's expansion plans
OpenAI no longer required to store all users' deleted ChatGPT logs after court ruling
Some user logs will still be kept
Disney sends cease and desist to Character.ai over unauthorized use of its characters
Character.ai responded by removing the disputed bots
Tencent's Light of Motiram lawsuit response: Horizon Zero Dawn isn't original, Sony seeks game genre monopoly
Unsurprisingly, Light of Motiram's Steam page has changed
Reddit, Yahoo, and other publishers roll out licensing protocol, pressuring AI companies to pay for scraped data
The days of free web scraping for AI training may be over
YouTube copyright fight: Rick Beato warns UMG claims over short music clips could end his channel
"We have successfully fought thousands of these now. But it literally costs me so much money to do this"
Anthropic reaches settlement with authors in landmark copyright case
Using copyrighted works for AI training can qualify as fair use, but how those works are acquired is key
Universal Pictures adds a warning to its movies: "do not use to train AI"
Will AI companies even care?
Sony sues Tencent over blatant Horizon Zero Dawn clone, Light of Motiram
Sony is demanding damages and destruction of the game
Europe's AI code urges companies to disclose training data and avoid copyright violations
AI Act fines could reach 7% of revenue for noncompliance
Landmark deepfake law aims to give Denmark's citizens rights over their image, voice, and likeness
The law would levy strict penalties on platforms that refuse to remove fakes