AI Briefing#copyright
The latest AI and developer news about #copyright, with the original source and a short summary.
The latest AI and developer news about #copyright, with the original source and a short summary.
Claude now blocks requests to decompile or clone game code, a move attributed to copyright concerns following a wave of AI-assisted jailbreaks and ports.
Deposition testimony reveals a former Meta researcher downloaded the pirated Books3 dataset, contradicting Meta's earlier claim that it did not obtain the data via BitTorrent.
Amici curiae including the US Government, Authors Alliance, and independent creators argue that using copyrighted works for AI training is transformative and does not cause cognizable market harm.
A federal judge ruled that Anthropic illegally scraped and pirated works from over 10 Stanford professors to train its Claude models, despite a $1.5 billion settlement.
Elvis rights holders sue Anthropic for $48.6M, citing Claude's self-assessment that its output of 274 Presley songs edged into reproducing copyrighted lyrics.
Operators of Open3DLab, SFMLab, and SmutBase reported that a Roblox-affiliated crawler bypassed robots.txt and terms of service to scrape 1,027 files totaling 145.5GB, with 62.6GB comprising adult content.
Legal experts warn that despite removing the word 'train', Meta's updated terms allow scraping of websites associated with business accounts for any 'advertising and business products', potentially superseding robots.txt preferences.
Investigation reveals OpenAI's image generator falsely attributes fake cartoons to at least 15 specific New Yorker artists, including Brendan Loper and Pat Byrnes.
New filings in Authors Guild v. OpenAI include internal communications where executives acknowledged using LibGen and discussed deleting evidence under 'Project Clear'.
Internal papers reveal Oxford University allowed OpenAI to use 125,000 scans of Bodleian Library texts for AI training, a use case not explicitly stated in the original public announcement.
Ed Newton-Rex urged mandatory disclosure of training data, arguing that derived data—where AI rewrites creative works for training—makes detection difficult and circumvents opt-outs.
The mathematics community has raised demands for transparency regarding missing citations in OpenAI's mathematical achievements announcement and whether ChatGPT conversation data was included in training data.
Suno released AI model v6, trained on licensed music from major record labels including Warner and BMG, as part of its response to copyright lawsuits.
In the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright class action, a net settlement of $2,200 per author is scheduled to be paid by November 15, 2026.
Both parties requested a preliminary court ruling by September 4 in the copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI.
Google has proposed AI IP licensing deals averaging $40 million per character to major studios like Disney.
Large-scale purchases of used books and 'destructive scanning' to secure data for AI training are causing controversy.
A German court ruled that Suno's unauthorized use of copyrighted works constitutes copyright infringement.
Google's attempt to use the DMCA to block data scraping was rejected in court.
Warner Music Group's Sureel AI has partnered with Symphonic Distribution to provide independent artists with tracking of AI music usage and management of licensing revenue.
Anthropic has decided to pay a settlement of $1.5 billion over a copyright infringement lawsuit.
The settlement in which Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to authors over a copyright infringement lawsuit has received final approval from the court.
Tidal has introduced a new policy banning monetization of AI-generated music to protect artists.
Europe and the United States are developing in different directions on regulations concerning AI training data copyright and compensation systems.