Internet Archive ends effort to overturn defeat in digital book lending case
There will be no Supreme Court review, but the Archive's fight is far from done
OpenAI hit with billion-dollar lawsuit from Canadian publishers over content abuse
OpenAI must have world's busiest lawyers
Streamer faces $7.5 million lawsuit from Nintendo over alleged piracy, leaking unreleased games
Jesse Keighin taunted Nintendo with defiant responses to legal actions
Broken McDonald's ice cream machines could become a rare sight after Copyright Office ruling
Rejoice, McFlurry fans
What just happened? Few things in life stay the same, but one reassuringly familiar sight is the broken ice cream machine in your local McDonald's. However, that looks set to change after the US Copyright Office granted an exemption that gives restaurants the right to repair the machines.
Nintendo, famed for hating emulation, likely using Windows PCs to emulate SNES games at its museum
Nintendo only hates third-party emulators, it seems
YouTuber claims another channel used AI to clone his voice without consent
Jeff Geerling's voice was allegedly stolen for some tutorial videos
The Internet Archive loses appeal over e-book lending case
Court determines that the free digital lending system doesn't fall under fair use
The Pirate Bay TV series set to premiere in Sweden this November
Get ready to "steal" this show
Authors sue Anthropic for allegedly using pirated copyrighted work to train Claude
"Anthropic's model seeks to profit from strip-mining the human expression"
Kim Dotcom loses extradition battle but refuses to leave New Zealand
"I love New Zealand. I'm not leaving"
Nvidia says scraping 80 years' worth of videos daily to train its AI models is in "the spirit of copyright law"
YouTube seems to disagree
A hot potato: Once again, it's been revealed that a company has been scraping data from the internet to train its AI models using a questionable interpretation of copyright law. On this occasion, Nvidia has been downloading videos from YouTube, Netflix, and other platforms to gather data for its commercial AI products.
AI companies to music labels: scraping copyrighted tracks on the internet to train algorithms is "fair use"
Udio and Suno say you can't own styles or genres
Apple, Nvidia, and others trained their AI on YouTube content without user consent or knowledge
Just another case in a long line of IP theft by Big AI
YouTube unveils AI-powered tool to cleanly remove copyrighted music
Less time fighting claims, more time creating fresh content
Even staunch fans are calling out Apple's less-than-transparent AI training data harvesting
It claims most training samples are Apple-owned, but what about the rest?
Microsoft AI CEO: Content on the open web is "freeware" for AI training
The BS claim stirs a hornet's nest of copyright concerns
This $1 billion AI chatbot has been accused of stealing content and lying
Critics say Perplexity makes 'facts' out of thin air
Publishers' lawsuit leads to removal of 500,000 books from Internet Archive
The organization has called on publishers to "let readers read"
Adobe clarifies vague 'terms of use' changes in wake of user backlash
Adobe promises that it is not out to steal your creative work
Adobe can scan user-generated content stored in its cloud, and users aren't happy
The scanning practice has been going on for years, Adobe confirmed, so no need to freak out now
Define irony: OpenAI, sued repeatedly for copyright infringement, files claim against subreddit before backing down
Even Musk thought it was hypocritical
Nintendo DMCA lawyers shut down everything Mario on Garry's Mod
Some Nintendo add-ons have been around of nearly 20 years without being bothered
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
A hot potato: Charles Rivkin, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association isn't a fan of pirates. He says many of those who operate piracy websites are "real-life mobsters" who engage in child pornography, drug trafficking, and other crimes. He has also announced that the MPA plans to work with Congress to introduce legislation that blocks pirate websites in the United States.
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