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Intellectual property law
fromThe Verge
11 hours ago

Nintendo Switch modder ordered to pay $2 million in piracy lawsuit

Ryan Daley must pay Nintendo $2 million, stop selling modded Switch consoles, and surrender or destroy devices after a court found products enable large-scale piracy.
fromwww.dw.com
3 days ago

US: Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion in AI lawsuit settlement DW 09/06/2025

"This landmark settlement far surpasses any other known copyright recovery," said plaintiffs' attorney Justin Nelson. "It is the first of its kind in the AI era."
Artificial intelligence
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
3 days ago

Anthropic to pay authors $1.5B to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material

Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it used pirated books to train its chatbot, with about $3,000 per covered book.
#ai-image-generation
fromKotaku
4 days ago
Intellectual property law

WB Sues Midjourney Over Turning Batman And Joker AI Slop

fromKotaku
4 days ago
Intellectual property law

WB Sues Midjourney Over Turning Batman And Joker AI Slop

Real estate
fromwww.housingwire.com
3 days ago

Zillow removes photos at center of CoStar suit from site

CoStar sued Zillow alleging unauthorized use of tens of thousands of CoStar copyrighted listing photos, claiming one of the largest real estate image infringement cases.
Intellectual property law
fromTechCrunch
3 days ago

Warner Bros. sues Midjourney for AI images of Superman, Batman, and other characters | TechCrunch

Warner Bros. sued Midjourney alleging the AI tool enables unauthorized generation of copyrighted characters, seeking damages, profit disgorgement, and an injunction.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
4 days ago

Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating 'countless' copies of its characters

Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney for allegedly generating and distributing unauthorized images and videos of its copyrighted characters.
Video games
fromGameSpot
6 days ago

WoW's Most Ambitious Private Server Is Being Sued By Blizzard

Blizzard sued Turtle WoW creators for alleged large-scale copyright infringement and for efforts to cannibalize and disrupt World of Warcraft's player community.
fromCreative Bloq
6 days ago

Urban Revivo faces accusations of copying independent artist's illustrations

Her vibrant 2D illustrations appear daily alongside the The New York Times' Strands Sidekick feature and have also featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Anorak Magazine. Celine made a post on Instagram showing items of clothing sold by Urban Revivo that appear to feature images heavily inspired by her own illustrations. Specifically, designers appeared to have taken liberal inspiration from the artist's illustrations of a heart and a bird with skeletons way back in 2021.
Intellectual property law
#illegal-streaming
fromIrish Independent
6 days ago
Intellectual property law

Major enforcement operation targets retailers selling access to illegal streaming services in nine counties

fromIrish Independent
6 days ago
Intellectual property law

Major enforcement operation targets retailers selling access to illegal streaming services in nine counties

#fair-use
fromPatently-O
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

Anthropic Settles the Authors' Class Action on Training Data: What It Means for Fair Use, Compensation, and Competition

fromPatently-O
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

Anthropic Settles the Authors' Class Action on Training Data: What It Means for Fair Use, Compensation, and Competition

fromFast Company
1 week ago

Can artists really stop AI from stealing their work?

Misshapen eyes and hands with too many fingers once made AI-generated art easy to spot. Now, as the technology advances, it's becoming harder to tell human work from machine-made creations. With some fearing the replacement of human creatives, AI-generated art has plenty of detractors. "Algorithm aversion," the bias against AI-created work, seems to only be growing, and just 20% of U.S. adults think AI will have a positive impact on arts and entertainment.
Intellectual property law
Media industry
fromBusiness Matters
1 week ago

Financial Times owner Nikkei sues Perplexity AI over copyright infringement claims

Nikkei and The Asahi Shimbun sued Perplexity AI for alleged large-scale copyright infringement and uncompensated use of paywalled journalistic content, seeking injunctions and damages.
fromExchangewire
1 week ago

Digest: Trump Warns Tariffs on Nations 'Discriminating' Against US Tech; Elon Musk's xAI Sues Apple & OpenAI for Monopoly Practices - ExchangeWire.com

Trump has warned tariffs on countries imposing digital taxes on US tech firms. He said measures such as the UK's digital services tax and similar rules in France, Italy and Spain discriminate against companies like Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple. Trump said he will add tariffs on exports and restrict technology sales if those policies stay in place.
US politics
Video games
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer's Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill

Developers face significant challenges in removing clone games, which siphon attention and resources from original titles.
fromInsideHook
1 month ago

AI-Generated Books on Amazon Are Hurting Authors and the Publishing Industry

British comedian Rhys James announced that ahead of the release of his memoir, he found a plethora of AI versions circulating on Amazon.
Books
Music
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Sony Music Sues Napster Over Missed Royalty Payments

Sony Music Entertainment is suing Rhapsody for $9.2 million in licensing fees and $36 million in damages for copyright infringement.
Video games
fromGadgets 360
1 month ago

Sony's Lawsuit Says Tencent's Light of Motiram Copied Horizon Games

Sony has sued Tencent over copyright infringement, claiming Tencent's game closely resembles its Horizon franchise.
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Anthropic will face a class-action lawsuit from US authors

Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson allege that Anthropic downloaded up to seven million copyrighted works unlawfully, building a multibillion-dollar business on stolen books.
US news
#ai-training
fromArs Technica
4 months ago
Intellectual property law

Judge on Meta's AI training: "I just don't understand how that can be fair use"

The judge expressed skepticism over Meta's claim of fair use for AI training data.
US politics
fromIrish Independent
1 month ago

'Sylvanian Families' toy firm in settlement talks with Kildare TikTok star over parody videos featuring Japanese company's dolls

Epoch Company sues Thea Von Engelbrechten for copyright infringement over her use of Sylvanian Families dolls in promotional videos.
#supreme-court
fromThe IP Law Blog
1 month ago
Intellectual property law

The Briefing: The Supreme Court Dodges the Discovery Rule Question-What That Means for Copyright Enforcement

The Supreme Court has avoided addressing long-standing copyright infringement claims, leaving uncertainty in copyright law.
fromPatently-O
3 months ago
Intellectual property law

USDOJ: Contributory Infringement Requires Conscious and Culpable Acts

The Supreme Court is set to clarify ISP liability in copyright infringement cases, particularly regarding contributory and vicarious liability.
fromThe IP Law Blog
1 month ago
Intellectual property law

The Briefing: The Supreme Court Dodges the Discovery Rule Question-What That Means for Copyright Enforcement

Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
3 months ago

USDOJ: Contributory Infringement Requires Conscious and Culpable Acts

The Supreme Court is set to clarify ISP liability in copyright infringement cases, particularly regarding contributory and vicarious liability.
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Settlement may spell end to Rimini Street, Oracle legal saga

Rimini Street has entered into a confidential settlement agreement with Oracle, which may resolve their long-standing legal dispute dating back to 2010.
Software development
fromTechSpot
2 months ago

YouTube hosts thousands of pirated films and TV shows at any given moment

Adalytics identified over 9,000 alleged copyright violations on YouTube, including full-length Hollywood films, Netflix exclusives, and popular television shows, accumulating 250 million views.
US politics
#openai
fromFuturism
2 months ago
Privacy professionals

Judge Rules That Newspaper Is Allowed to Search Through Users' ChatGPT Logs

fromFuturism
2 months ago
Privacy professionals

Judge Rules That Newspaper Is Allowed to Search Through Users' ChatGPT Logs

fromHackernoon
1 year ago

Judge Rules Anthropic's Use of Books for AI Training Was Legal, but Pirated Copies Raise Liability | HackerNoon

The copies used to train specific LLMs were justified as fair use. Every factor but the nature of the copyrighted work favors this result. The technology at issue was among the most transformative many of us will see in our lifetimes.
Intellectual property law
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Lululemon claims Costco knocked off its designs. Online, the big-box retailer has already won

Lululemon takes issue with a number of Costco products that it says are intended to mimic its popular designs, including the $128 Define jacket and $118 Scuba oversize half-zip hoodie.
E-Commerce
fromPatently-O
2 months ago

Supreme Court Grants Cert in First (and only) IP Case of 2024: Billion-Dollar ISP Copyright Contributory Liability Case

Cox Communications was sued by record companies for copyright infringement, focusing on when internet providers can be held liable for user piracy.
US politics
#artificial-intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Group of high-profile authors sue Microsoft over use of their books in AI training

Authors accuse Microsoft of using 200,000 pirated books to train its AI, raising copyright infringement concerns.
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago
Intellectual property law

Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney over 'bottomless pit of plagiarism'

Disney and Universal's lawsuit against Midjourney highlights concerns over copyright infringement in the generative AI landscape.
#ai-technology
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

In first-of-its-kind lawsuit, Hollywood giants sue AI firm for copyright infringement

Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney for copyright infringement over AI-generated content.
This lawsuit marks a significant legal action from major entertainment firms against AI technology.
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago
Intellectual property law

Disney and Universal say these images show how the AI tool Midjourney steals their famous characters

Disney and NBCUniversal have sued Midjourney for copyright infringement over unauthorized copies of their characters.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

In first-of-its-kind lawsuit, Hollywood giants sue AI firm for copyright infringement

Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney for copyright infringement over AI-generated content.
This lawsuit marks a significant legal action from major entertainment firms against AI technology.
Intellectual property law
fromArs Technica
3 months ago

ISP settles with record labels that demanded mass termination of Internet users

The Trump administration supports ISPs' lack of liability for customer copyright infringement.
Record labels are pressing ISPs for more action against repeat copyright infringers, but ISPs resist terminating accounts.
Chicago Bulls
fromPitchfork
3 months ago

Beastie Boys Settle Lawsuit Against Chili's Owner Over "Sabotage" Ads

Beastie Boys are settling a lawsuit against Chili's for copyright infringement over an ad that parodied their "Sabotage" video.
Independent films
fromNew York Post
3 months ago

Dave Franco and Alison Brie sued for alleged copyright infringement over 'blatant rip-off' horror film 'Together'

Brie and Franco face a lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement for their film 'Together', based on similarities with a previous script they declined.
fromDigiday
4 months ago

As AI lawsuits mount, publishers still struggle to block the bots

"The average publisher is trying to compete against a $300 billion company [OpenAI]. It's hard to invest in the level of 'bot-walling' or 'bot prevention technology..."
Artificial intelligence
fromTheartnewspaper
4 months ago

Leading Indian artist Anita Dube accused of 'intellectual theft' after using protest poem in Delhi gallery show

This is my poem, written in velvet cloth, another carved in wood, hung inside a commercial white cube space, renamed, rebranded, and resold at an enormous price without ever telling me... This is not conceptual borrowing. This is theft.
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