At the start of the year, a class-action copyright lawsuit on behalf of almost 500,000 authors alleged that the AI company Anthropic pirated millions of copyrighted books to train its AI model, Claude. The case was first filed on August 19, 2024, by three authors—Andrea Bartz, Kirk Wallace Johnson, and Charles Graeber. A judge delivered […]
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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
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A coalition of major music publishers, led by Universal Music Publishing Group alongside Concord Music Group and ABKCO Music, has filed a sweeping second copyright lawsuit against AI giant Anthropic, seeking over $3 billion in statutory damages for the alleged infringement of more than 20,000 songs. The filing, submitted January 28 in the Northern District
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Anna’s Archive, a decentralized piracy collective formerly known as the “Pirate Library Mirror,” made waves when it announced it had scraped roughly 86 million music files and metadata for 256 million tracks directly from Spotify. The open-source search engine described it as the largest publicly available music metadata database ever assembled. The group planned to
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Major entertainment companies including Disney, Netflix, and Crunchyroll have launched a coordinated legal campaign against VidSrc, a prominent piracy platform. This action builds on a September operation that successfully blocked over 248 piracy domains, targeting anime sites such as AnimeKai, Anyboy, and AnimesHeaven. Massive Copyright Lawsuit Brings Together Heavy Hitters The lawsuit brings together an
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U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger has allowed a copyright infringement lawsuit against X (formerly Twitter), brought by the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), to proceed, after dismissing some of their claims. The judge ruled that the primary question is whether and to what extent the social media platform is liable for acts of copyright infringement
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Sony Music has filed a lawsuit In New York federal court against video-sharing application Triller, alleging copyright infringement and breach of contract. The company is asking for millions of dollars in compensation. Sony claims that since March 2022, Triller has not paid its licensing fees, and yet continues to allow songs by Sony Music artists
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A judge in the U.S. has given Ed Sheeran his second copyright trial victory, awarding him with more than $1.1 million in costs. This amount covers 90 percent of his copyright lawsuit legal bill. Judge Antony Zacaroli explained in his judgment that it was his task to determine the winners and losers in the case.
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FreedomNews.TV has accused Snoop Dogg of stealing and posting an “exact copy” of their video which shows a man falling to the ground while trying to scale the JPMorgan Chase Bank’s New York City headquarters. This incident in April was part of an organized demonstration by people who the New York Post described as being
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