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Court Rules Against Anna’s Archive for Rampant Book Piracy

Book Piracy, Copyright Infringement / May 20, 2026

A coalition of thirteen major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, has secured a $19.5 million default judgment against Anna’s Archive. The website is a sprawling shadow library that mirrors the catalogs of piracy havens Library Genesis and Sci-Hub. Anna’s Archive hosts roughly 99 million books and academic papers. The ruling was handed […]

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Meta Sued by Publishers for AI Copyright Infringement

A coalition of major publishing houses — including Cengage, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, Macmillan, and Hachette — has filed a federal lawsuit against Meta in Manhattan. They accuse the tech giant of unlawfully harvesting millions of copyrighted works to train its Llama AI models. Author Scott Turow is also among the plaintiffs in the proposed class action.

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Copyright Infringement: The Dictionary Sues OpenAI

Joining an army of other plaintiffs suing OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement, the dictionary has now filed a complaint. Two of the world’s most recognized reference institutions, Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster, have filed a federal copyright lawsuit against OpenAI in Manhattan. It alleges the unauthorized use of their human-researched, fact-checked content to train

AI & Copyright Update: WGA and Celebs in the US and UK

The battle between surging AI development and artist copyright is markedly different from one side of the pond to the other. In the US, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) demands that media companies take action against tech firms using copyrighted content for their training materials. Meanwhile, new copyright laws in the UK aim to

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