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fromHyperallergic
6 days ago

Required Reading

Tania Bruguera's stained glass piece at V&A East Museum emphasizes safety and freedom of expression in civic spaces.
#patent-law
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, April 10: DISH Wins Copyright Appeal Over Arabic TV Retransmissions; Fifth Circuit Awards Google Transfer on Mandamus; and Third Circuit Says Online Publication of Copyrighted Building Codes is Transformative

Intellectual property law
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 week ago

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, April 10: DISH Wins Copyright Appeal Over Arabic TV Retransmissions; Fifth Circuit Awards Google Transfer on Mandamus; and Third Circuit Says Online Publication of Copyrighted Building Codes is Transformative

The article covers significant legal developments in copyright and patent issues, including court rulings and corporate partnerships in the AI sector.
fromKotaku
1 week ago

Cozy RPG Deleted From Steam After Seemingly Ripping Off Tetris

The official X account for Starsand Island stated that the removal was due to 'insufficient verification during the planning stage of a minigame within this game.'
Games
#youtube
fromKotaku
1 week ago
Music production

Silent Hill 2 Streamer Gets Copyright Strikes From Makers Of AI Songs

fromEngadget
2 weeks ago
Intellectual property law

Three YouTubers accuse Apple of illegal scraping to train its AI models

YouTube creators filed a class action lawsuit against Apple for allegedly scraping copyrighted videos to train AI models.
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago
Intellectual property law

Nvidia's DLSS 5 YouTube Reveal Video Hit By Copyright Strike

YouTube faces criticism for copyright abuse as multiple channels, including Nvidia's, receive false claims from La7 for using their own content.
Music production
fromKotaku
1 week ago

Silent Hill 2 Streamer Gets Copyright Strikes From Makers Of AI Songs

YouTube fails to protect creators from false copyright claims, allowing AI-generated content to infringe on original works without accountability.
Intellectual property law
fromTNW | Amazon
1 week ago

YouTubers sue Amazon for allegedly scraping their videos to train Nova Reel

Three YouTube creators filed a lawsuit against Amazon for allegedly scraping their videos to train a generative AI model without consent.
Intellectual property law
fromEngadget
2 weeks ago

Three YouTubers accuse Apple of illegal scraping to train its AI models

YouTube creators filed a class action lawsuit against Apple for allegedly scraping copyrighted videos to train AI models.
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago
Intellectual property law

Nvidia's DLSS 5 YouTube Reveal Video Hit By Copyright Strike

#intellectual-property
#ai-music
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago
Music production

Suno and major music labels clash over AI music sharing

Suno struggles to secure licensing deals with major music labels over user sharing of AI-generated songs.
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago
Music production

Suno is a music copyright nightmare

Suno's copyright filters can be easily bypassed, allowing users to create AI-generated covers of popular songs without permission.
Music production
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

Suno is a music copyright nightmare

Suno's copyright filters can be easily bypassed, allowing users to create AI-generated covers of popular songs without permission.
#ai
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago
Intellectual property law

Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude's Source Code

Intellectual property law
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude's Source Code

Anthropic's copyright takedown request for its AI model's source code highlights hypocrisy in its stance on copyright laws.
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
3 weeks ago

As 'Pro Codes Act' is Reintroduced, Opponents Warn of Threats to Standards Development System

Without effective copyright protections, there is a grave risk that these organizations will no longer be able to produce the high-quality codes and standards that the public and lawmakers have come to rely on.
Intellectual property law
fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

Authors' lucky break in court may help class action over Meta torrenting

Denying the motion to add the contributory infringement claim could potentially harm the interests of the proposed class members. If the class action proceeded without the claim, members would be barred from ever raising it, even if the Entrepreneur Media case ruling went against Meta.
Intellectual property law
Law
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks ago

How Appealing Weekly Roundup - Above the Law

Supreme Court rules in favor of Cox Communications in a copyright case involving pirated music.
US politics
fromAxios
3 weeks ago

White House AI rollout exposes widening rift

Attendees at the Axios AI+DC Summit expressed concerns over copyright clarity and diverging Republican views on AI's impact on children and voters.
Music production
fromThe Verge
4 weeks ago

Google Lyria 3 Pro makes longer AI songs

Google's Lyria 3 music-making AI now creates tracks up to three minutes long with enhanced features for user control and integration with other Google products.
Tech industry
fromArs Technica
4 weeks ago

Disney cancels $1 billion OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans

Disney and OpenAI are exploring partnership options amidst concerns over AI-generated content's impact on traditional filmmaking.
fromHyperallergic
4 weeks ago

DHS Appropriates Japanese Artist's Work in Racist X Post

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is using my artwork without permission ... What should I do ... Since the other party is so large, I'm honestly at a loss.
Arts
#artificial-intelligence
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
2 months ago
Intellectual property law

DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Deny Cert in Thaler's Latest Bid to Copyright Work Created by AI

DOJ urged Supreme Court to deny AI-authored copyright; courts and Copyright Office held that copyright requires a human author and machines cannot own property.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
1 month ago

Patent Law Year in Review: USC IP Institute 2026

The USC Intellectual Property Institute held its annual IP Year in Review session covering major patent law developments, featuring panels on trademarks, publicity rights, and copyright.
#web-scraping
#legal-disclaimer
#disclaimer
#mls
Artificial intelligence
fromAxios
2 months ago

China's AI rise rattles Hollywood

Chinese AI models like Seedance threaten high-cost industries by offering lower cost, faster performance and weaker safety guardrails, sparking copyright and likeness-rights conflicts.
Law
fromPatently-O
2 months ago

"Anonymous Work" and the AI Author Fight

Thaler v. Perlmutter asks the Supreme Court to decide whether AI-generated works can receive copyright protection.
#ai-generated-video
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago
Intellectual property law

Read Netflix's legal letter to ByteDance over a viral AI video tool it calls a 'high-speed piracy engine'

fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago
Intellectual property law

Read Netflix's legal letter to ByteDance over a viral AI video tool it calls a 'high-speed piracy engine'

fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Who Owns This Book? The guide for every designer's worst nightmare: copyright

"There's a tension in the design of the book that I was exploring, between making it feel super contemporary and colorful, and leaning into more traditional aesthetics of archives and historical content. I wanted to honor both," says Michele. "Copyright law can also be kind of intimidating, so I wanted to use the design of the book to make the content more approachable and engaging."
Typography
fromExchangewire
2 months ago

Digest: Disney Takes On Bytedance Over AI Video App; Alliance of Independent Agencies Launches Middle East Chapter

ByteDance has pledged to tighten controls around its AI video generator, Seedance, after facing legal threats from Disney and growing criticism from other Hollywood studios over alleged copyright violations. The latest iteration of the tool, Seedance 2.0, has seen a surge of hyper-realistic AI-generated clips circulating on social media, some appearing to feature characters from major film franchises.
Artificial intelligence
Intellectual property law
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

After spooking Hollywood, ByteDance will tweak safeguards on new AI model

ByteDance is enhancing safeguards for its Seedance 2.0 AI video generator after studios and unions accused it of copyright and likeness infringements.
Photography
fromThe Phoblographer
2 months ago

How Instagram Made You a Terrible Photographer

Posting photographs primarily to Instagram exposes photographers' work to AI exploitation and undermines copyright control and long-term ownership.
Media industry
fromFuturism
2 months ago

New AI Video Generator Is So Impressive That It's Scaring Hollywood

Advanced text-to-video AI generates photorealistic celebrity footage, triggering industry alarm, copyright conflicts, and platform responses to restrict real-person outputs.
#generative-ai
fromEngadget
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Disney accuses ByteDance of 'virtual smash-and-grab' when using copyrighted works to train its AI

fromEngadget
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Disney accuses ByteDance of 'virtual smash-and-grab' when using copyrighted works to train its AI

#patents
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

'Tom Cruise' and 'Brad Pitt' fight over Jeffrey Epstein in a viral AI video created using China's buzzy new Seedance tool

In a new viral AI video, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise pummel each other on a rooftop in a cinematic action sequence. It's not a trailer for a new blockbuster, and it's not actually Pitt and Cruise, though it looks a lot like them. The video is so realistic, in fact, that the clearest sign it's made with AI is the dialogue.
Artificial intelligence
Arts
fromSlate Magazine
2 months ago

I've Lived Long Enough to Hear an A.I.-Generated Bon Jovi Song in Olympic Ice Dancing

Olympic ice dancers used A.I.-generated 1990s-style music to avoid copyright, prompting viewer backlash over authenticity and alleged lyric copying.
#figure-skating
fromConsequence
2 months ago

Jonny Greenwood Demands Phantom Thread Score Be Removed from Melania Documentary

The Melania Trump documentary includes a portion of Jonny Greenwood's Oscar-nominated score to the Paul Thomas Anderson film Phantom Thread. In a new statement released Monday, Greenwood said that while he does own the copyright to the score, Universal Pictures "failed to consult [him] on this third-party use which is a breach of his composer agreement." "As a result Jonny and Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for it to be removed from the documentary," the statement adds.
Film
World news
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

US figure skater Amber Glenn faces backlash over politics and copyright issues after Olympic gold

American figure skater Amber Glenn used Seb McKinnon's song "The Return" without permission during her Olympic free skate, prompting a public copyright objection.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
2 months ago

Government Urges Supreme Court to Deny AI Copyright Case, Emphasizing Narrow Question and Statutory Text

Current statute requires human authorship for copyright; recognizing autonomous AI as an author is unsupported, while human-AI collaboration questions remain unresolved.
fromwww.nature.com
2 months ago

Publisher Correction: Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous

Since the version of the article initially published, the copyright line has been amended to North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and James Napoli, under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Publishers are blocking the Internet Archive for fear AI scrapers can use it as a workaround

"A lot of these AI businesses are looking for readily available, structured databases of content," Robert Hahn, head of business affairs and licensing for The Guardian, told . "The Internet Archive's API would have been an obvious place to plug their own machines into and suck out the IP."
Media industry
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Google's New AI Tool Makes Bad Rip-Offs Of Mario, Zelda Games

Google has just started rolling out access to its new "experimental research prototype" Project Genie, an AI tool powered by Genie 3 and Gemini that allows users to create interactive, explorable worlds with a simple text prompt. Unsurprisingly, someone has immediately used it to generate a bunch of playable Nintendo knock-offs, including a The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild clone, complete with a usable paraglider.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3 billion over 'flagrant piracy'

Music publishers accuse Anthropic of illegally downloading over 20,000 copyrighted songs to train its Claude chatbot, seeking more than $3 billion in damages.
fromKqed
2 months ago

Public Domain Contest Challenges Filmmakers to Remix Betty Boop and more

I wanted to transform the figures and bodies into more dream-like shapes through collage and looping and repetition,
Film
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