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fromFuturism
1 day ago

Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

"Make your own prompts" isn't advice. It's basic integrity.I'm honestly fed up.Changing a few words, renaming the prompt, or slightly rephrasing it doesn't make it yours, the idea is still the same, the vibe is the same, and the results are obviously similar.And no, this...- Amira Zairi (@azed_ai) January 6, 2026
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Atlantic
2 days ago

AI's Memorization Crisis

In fact, when prompted strategically by researchers, Claude delivered the near-complete text of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Great Gatsby, 1984, and Frankenstein, in addition to thousands of words from books including The Hunger Games and The Catcher in the Rye. Varying amounts of these books were also reproduced by the other three models. Thirteen books were tested.
Intellectual property law
#antitrust
fromBoston Condos For Sale Ford Realty
4 weeks ago
Real estate

Biggest Real Estate Story Of 2025 - Zillow Legal Woes Boston Condos For Sale Ford Realty

Zillow faces antitrust, copyright, and consumer lawsuits alleging anti-competitive deals, widespread copyright misuse, and RESPA violations tied to agent incentive programs.
fromwww.housingwire.com
2 months ago
Real estate

Inside Zillow's legal storm: From RESPA to job discrimination

Multiple competitors sued Zillow alleging its listing access policy and image practices stifle competition and infringe copyrights, prompting injunction motions and expedited discovery.
Music
fromPitchfork
2 days ago

Salt-N-Pepa's Lawsuit Against Universal Music Group Dismissed

A judge ruled that Salt-N-Pepa never owned their masters, and the court dismissed the duo's lawsuit against Universal Music Group.
#public-domain
fromFortune
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

Betty Boop and Blondie join Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain | Fortune

fromFortune
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

Betty Boop and Blondie join Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain | Fortune

#generative-ai
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
6 days ago

AI isn't stealing your traffic. It's stealing your authority

Allowing AI to index media content preserves visibility and authority in AI-generated summaries while blocking risks ceding narrative control to competitors.
#trademark
fromThe IP Law Blog
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

The Briefing - New York Times v. Perplexity AI: Copyright, Hallucinations, and Trademark Risk

The New York Times alleges Perplexity AI copied its journalism and used Times trademarks to attribute fabricated content, raising trademark liability for AI hallucinations.
fromTheregister
2 months ago
Intellectual property law

Getty loses UK copyright battle against Stability AI

UK High Court dismissed most Getty Images claims against Stability AI, allowing only a trademark claim over watermarks; UK copyright claims failed.
fromThe IP Law Blog
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

The Briefing - New York Times v. Perplexity AI: Copyright, Hallucinations, and Trademark Risk

#mls
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 week ago

Site Blocking Laws Will Always Be a Bad Idea: 2025 in Review

More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA-two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites based on allegations of piracy. The backlash was massive. Internet users, free speech advocates, and tech companies flooded lawmakers with protests, culminating in an "Internet Blackout" on January 18, 2012. Turns out, Americans don't like government-run internet blacklists. The bills were ultimately shelved.
US politics
#ai-generated-content
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago
Books

ChatGPT came up with a 'Game of Thrones' sequel idea. Now, a judge is letting George RR Martin sue for copyright infringement.

fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago
Books

ChatGPT came up with a 'Game of Thrones' sequel idea. Now, a judge is letting George RR Martin sue for copyright infringement.

#fair-use
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 month ago
Intellectual property law

Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, and the Fight for User Rights: 2025 in Review

Court and policy rulings on copyright and fair use for AI training will determine whether AI stays open, competitive, beneficial or becomes concentrated and restricted.
fromLawSites
1 month ago
Intellectual property law

Film Studios, News Media and Even Competitor LexisNexis Among the Nine Amicus Briefs Supporting Thomson Reuters' Copyright Case Against ROSS

The Third Circuit will decide whether Westlaw editor-created headnotes are copyrightable and whether ROSS's copying of them constituted non‑fair use.
fromLawSites
1 month ago
Intellectual property law

Film Studios, News Media and Even Competitor LexisNexis Among the Nine Amicus Briefs Supporting Thomson Reuters' Copyright Case Against ROSS

#intellectual-property
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
2 weeks ago
Intellectual property law

The IP Protecting the Hottest Gifts of 2025: Labubu Dolls, Fidget Toys and Lilo & Stitch Puppetronics

Effective intellectual property protection enabled Pop Mart's Labubu franchise to grow globally, driving massive sales and prompting enforcement actions against counterfeits.
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 month ago
Intellectual property law

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, November 14: WIPO Study Shows IP Awareness Growing in Asia-Pacific; EPO Says Influencers Respect IP But Fear Open Discussions; CNIPA Patent Filings Increase Nearly 10% in 2024

A roundup of recent global intellectual property developments, including patent licensing revenues, court rulings on AI and patents, trademark disputes, and influencer IP study.
#ai-training-data
fromLawSites
1 month ago
Intellectual property law

Thomson Reuters Tells Appeals Court: ROSS's Copying Was 'Theft, Not Innovation'

fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Studio Ghibli and other Japanese publishers want OpenAI to stop training on their work | TechCrunch

fromLawSites
1 month ago
Intellectual property law

Thomson Reuters Tells Appeals Court: ROSS's Copying Was 'Theft, Not Innovation'

fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Studio Ghibli and other Japanese publishers want OpenAI to stop training on their work | TechCrunch

Tech industry
fromComputerworld
2 weeks ago

Google sues data scraping company

Google is suing Serpapi for allegedly using fake queries to bypass protections, scrape copyrighted search-result content, and resell it; Serpapi denies the claims.
#ai-music
fromFortune
1 month ago
Intellectual property law

What Warner Music's settlement with Suno says about the AI bubble | Fortune

fromFortune
1 month ago
Intellectual property law

What Warner Music's settlement with Suno says about the AI bubble | Fortune

Information security
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results 'at an astonishing scale'

SerpApi circumvents Google's SearchGuard by masking hundreds of millions of automated queries to appear as human users, thereby violating federal law.
#ai-generated-music
Intellectual property law
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

5 predictions for AI's growing role in the media in 2026

AI is rapidly reshaping media and news businesses, with copyright, content licensing, AI-generated content, and newsroom adoption driving major industry tensions and changes.
#ai-training
fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

Microsoft takes down mod that recreated Halo 3 in Counter-Strike 2

Modder Froddoyo introduced Project Misriah on November 16 as "a workshop collection of Halo ported maps and assets that aims to bring a Halo 3 multiplayer-like experience to Counter-Strike 2." Far from just being inspired by Halo 3, the mod directly copied multiple sound effects, character models, maps, and even movement mechanics from Bungie and Microsoft's popular series.
Video games
fromBoston Condos For Sale Ford Realty
4 weeks ago

Boomerang Housing Boston Condos For Sale Ford Realty

© 2025 MLS Property Information Network, Inc. (MLSPIN). All rights reserved. The property listing data and information, or the Images, set forth herein were provided to MLS Property Information Network, Inc. from third-party sources, including sellers, lessors, landlords, and public records, and were compiled by MLS Property Information Network, Inc. The property listing data and information, and the Images, are for the personal, noncommercial use of consumers having a good faith interest in purchasing, leasing
Real estate
Gadgets
fromZDNET
4 weeks ago

How I download YouTube videos for free - 2 easy and reliable methods to do it

ClipGrab and WinX/MacX are recommended free tools for downloading YouTube videos, while YouTube Premium provides legal, account-tied ad-free downloads; respect copyright.
#real-estate-listings
#disney
fromEngadget
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Disney's deal with OpenAI is about controlling the future of copyright

fromFortune
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI and Disney just ended the 'war' between AI and Hollywood with their $1 billion Sora deal-and OpenAI made itself 'indispensable,' expert says | Fortune

fromEngadget
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Disney's deal with OpenAI is about controlling the future of copyright

fromFortune
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI and Disney just ended the 'war' between AI and Hollywood with their $1 billion Sora deal-and OpenAI made itself 'indispensable,' expert says | Fortune

fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

I Am Time Magazine's Person of the Year

For the past two years, my colleague Alex Reisner has investigated precisely how tech companies use massive data sets to train their LLMs. He has repeatedly found that so-called architects of AI have relied heavily on enormous databases of copyrighted work to create chatbots and other programs, and has also found that this work is generally taken without the consent or awareness of its creators: musicians, filmmakers, YouTubers, podcasters, illustrators, writers.
Artificial intelligence
Real estate
fromBoston Condos For Sale Ford Realty
1 month ago

2026 Boston Condo Buyer Design Trends Boston Condos For Sale Ford Realty

MLS Property Information Network provides third-party compiled property listings and images strictly for personal, noncommercial prospective-purchaser, lessee, or renter use and disclaims accuracy warranties.
Intellectual property law
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

India proposes charging OpenAI, Google for training AI on copyrighted content | TechCrunch

India proposes mandatory blanket-license royalties requiring AI companies to pay rights holders for using copyrighted works to train commercial models.
US politics
fromAxios
1 month ago

Santa hats and tanks: Trump's deportation agenda adopts Christmas memes

DHS and the White House used AI-edited holiday imagery and copyrighted materials in deportation-related posts, prompting legal threats and backlash from religious leaders and officials.
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Jorja Smith's record label hits out at 'AI clone' song

The team behind the song have admitted using AI during its creation. Producer and songwriter Harrison Walker said the original vocals were actually his own, but were heavily manipulated using music-generation software Suno - sometimes called the "ChatGPT for music". Meanwhile, the second producer Waypoint, real name Jacob Donaghue, confirmed on social media that AI was used to "give our original vocal a female tone".
Music
#lawsuit
#artificial-intelligence
US politics
fromTheregister
1 month ago

MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers

Conservative MAGA leaders urge DOJ and White House to reject weakening copyright protections for AI, citing harms to workers, US soft power, and national security.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Supreme Court weighs copyright fight between music industry and internet providers

The Supreme Court will decide whether internet providers can be held liable for users' copyright infringements in a billion-dollar case between music labels and Cox.
Intellectual property law
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Researchers build a better AI model memory probe

A new agentic pipeline, RECAP, enables more effective extraction of memorized copyrighted content from large language models, aiding copyright verification and regulatory oversight.
fromBoston Condos For Sale Ford Realty
1 month ago

How The 4 D's Impact The Boston Condo For Sale Market Boston Condos For Sale Ford Realty

The property listing data and information, and the Images, are for the personal, noncommercial use of consumers having a good faith interest in purchasing, leasing, or renting listed properties of the type displayed to them and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties which such consumers may have a good faith interest in purchasing, leasing or renting.
Real estate
#ai
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot

OpenAI released GPT‑5.1, faces European copyright and safety lawsuits, and pursues consumer health tools while reaching one million business clients.
Intellectual property law
fromThe IP Law Blog
1 month ago

The Briefing: Reboot or Not? The Battle Between ER's Creator and Warner Bros Hits the Court of Appeal

Warner Bros. appealed after losing an anti-SLAPP motion in Roadrunner JMTC LLC v. Warner Bros., raising First Amendment and derivative-work disputes over The Pitt and ER.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
1 month ago

If AI won't follow the rules, should the media even try?

Publishers must adapt content strategies to cope with AI systems that ingest and summarize web content, reducing site traffic amid legal and technical disputes.
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

AI is stealing search traffic: here's how publishers can fight back

It's been accepted wisdom that traditional publishers play a pivotal role in the digital media landscape, with standout editorial content serving as a rich source of premium inventory for advertisers. But that view is increasingly being challenged by the growing impact of AI search, whether it's Perplexity, ChatGPT, or Google AI Overviews. Only last month, Google expanded AI mode to more than 40 new countries and 35 new languages.
Artificial intelligence
fromPitchfork
2 months ago

Bob Dylan's Publisher Seemingly Responsible for Takedown of Zohran Mamdani's "Times They Are a-Changin'" Ad

On the eve of his New York mayoral election victory, Zohran Kwame Mamdani posted an ad on social media soundtracked by Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'." The video, like much of Mamdani's campaign, went viral, as its "New York is a-changin'" slogan rapidly spread across social media. By the following morning, however, it had been removed from X with a takedown notice: "This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright holder."
US politics
Law
fromAbove the Law
2 months ago

Expert Sues Jan. 6 Lawyers For Attaching Her Publicly Filed Report Without Paying $30K - Above the Law

A paid expert report entered the public docket, losing exclusivity and prompting reuse by lawyers and subsequent copyright lawsuits over its public posting.
fromSocial Media Today
2 months ago

Getty Loses Legal Case Over Generative AI Copyright Infringement

Getty had accused Stability AI of using its images to train its Stable Diffusion system, which generates images from text inputs. The case itself is actually technically straightforward: Getty claimed that URLs of Getty images were included within Stability AI's LAION dataset, which is the training model that powers its "Stable Diffusion" v1 and v2 image generation tools.
Intellectual property law
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android

OpenAI has brought its AI video app, Sora, to Android. The app, which lets you create, share, and remix AI-generated videos, is now available on the Google Play Store in the US, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, according to an announcement on Tuesday. OpenAI launched Sora on iOS in September, with the app accumulating more than 1 million downloads in the five days following its launch.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Studio Ghibli Demands That OpenAI Stop Ripping Off Its Work

The group, called the Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), said that it had determined Sora 2 is able to generate outputs that "closely resembles Japanese content or images" because this content was used as training data. Therefore, in cases "where specific copyrighted works are reproduced or similarly generated as outputs," CODA said, it "considers that the act of replication during the machine learning process may constitute copyright infringement."
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Grokipedia is such a mess even Grok thinks its untrustworthy

Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, which copies many Wikipedia articles and uses AI to generate additional, often questionable content, creating copyright and accuracy concerns.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Lock Company Sues Man Who Picked Its Lock, Gets Horribly Humiliated

The whole thing began in March of this year, when Proven blasted a 90 second promo clip called "YOU GUYS KEEP SAYING YOU CAN EASILY BREAK OFF OUR LATCH PIN LOCK." In the video, detailed by Ars Technica, a guy in a bald cap takes a sledgehammer to the company's $130 trailer hitch lock, hollering that he will "prove a lot of you haters wrong."
Information security
fromKotaku
2 months ago

YouTuber Who Trolled Nintendo Now Owes $17,500 In Switch Piracy Lawsuit

The Court issues an injunction preventing Defendant from infringing Nintendo's copyrighted works, including by streaming, and from trafficking in Switch emulators, Nintendo's proprietary cryptographic keys, or other software or technologies that circumvent Nintendo's technological protective measures," U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher wrote in an order issued earlier this week (via TorrentFreak). The only thing the judge didn't grant Nintendo was its request to confiscate and destroy any tools Keighin had used to pirate Switch games.
Intellectual property law
Intellectual property law
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Studio Ghibli And Japanese Game Publishers Demand OpenAI Stop Using Their Content In Sora 2

CODA demanded OpenAI stop using its members' copyrighted Japanese works to train Sora 2 and respond to infringement claims.
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Perplexity strikes multi-year licensing deal with Getty Images | TechCrunch

AI search startup Perplexity has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Getty Images, which gives it permission to display images from Getty across its AI-powered search and discovery tools. The deal marks a notable shift for the company, which has been hit by allegations of content scraping and plagiarism, and signals an effort to establish more formal content partnerships. Perplexity and Getty have been working together for more than a year, a source familiar with the deal told TechCrunch.
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