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OpenAI has been accused by many parties of training its AI on copyrighted content sans permission. Now a new paper by an AI watchdog organization makes the serious accusation that the company increasingly relied on non-public books it didn’t license to train more sophisticated AI models. AI models are essentially complex prediction engines. Trained on a lot of data — books, […]
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Channel 4’s Alex Mahon told MPs: ‘The creative industries account for 6% of the UK’s GVA and is growing 1.5 times faster than other sectors.’ Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian Government plan over copyright-protected work would put industries in ‘dangerous position’, Alex Mahon tells MPs The chief executive of Channel 4 said that artificial intelligence companies are “scraping the […]
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The visual apocalypse is probably nigh, but perhaps seeing was never believing. A trio of AI-generated images created using OpenAI's 4o Image Generation model in ChatGPT. Credit: OpenAI The arrival of OpenAI's DALL-E 2 in the spring of 2022 marked a turning point in AI, when text-to-image generation suddenly became accessible to a select group […]
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It’s only been a day since ChatGPT’s new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away.” In the last 24 hours, we’ve seen AI-generated images representing Studio […]
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A federal judge today denied OpenAI’s motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit by The New York Times, a major development in a closely watched case that will test the limits of what AI firms can use, and how, to train their large language models. “The Court hereby denies (1) OpenAI’s motions to dismiss the direct infringement claims involving […]
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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic convinced a California federal judge on Tuesday to reject a preliminary bid to block it from using lyrics owned by Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), opens new tab and other music publishers to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude. U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee said that the publishers' request was too broad and that they […]
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Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab has asked a U.S. court to rule that it did not violate copyright law when it used books by writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, comedian Sarah Silverman and others to train its artificial intelligence system. Meta told a federal judge, opens new tab in San Francisco on Monday that it made "fair use" of […]
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Peter Kyle promises government will ‘prioritise . . . forward movement’ over plans that have enraged creative industries UK technology secretary Peter Kyle has urged opponents of a new artificial intelligence copyright regime not to “resist change”, as he prepares to rule on proposals that have enraged British musicians and filmmakers. Thousands of people working in the British creative […]
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OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in Europe over its viral AI chatbot’s tendency to hallucinate false information — and this one might prove tricky for regulators to ignore. Privacy rights advocacy group Noyb is supporting an individual in Norway who was horrified to find ChatGPT returning made-up information that claimed he’d been convicted for murdering two of his […]
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Helen Brocklebank, head of Walpole, which represents companies in fashion, design and hospitality, urges the government to rethink its plan Walpole’s members say AI tools trained on copyright-infringing material can be used to replicate designs Britain’s biggest brands have said Labour’s plan to overhaul copyright law to benefit AI companies is the “wrong approach” and […]
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On March 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed decisions by a lower court and the United States Copyright Office that human authorship is required to obtain copyright protection in the United States, thereby foreclosing copyright registration for content solely generated by AI. As many expected, the […]
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When it comes to A.I. authentication, the importance of good data means cases are rarely cut and dry. A version of Rubens's composition The Bath of Diana from a private collection in France. Image courtesy Art Recognition. A new artificial intelligence analysis has reignited debate over the authenticity of The Bath of Diana (ca. 1635), a painting long believed […]
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Alexa’s integration with Suno misses the whole point of music. Suno wasn’t supposed to be an important part of Amazon’s Alexa Plus presentation. The AI song generation platform was a minor demonstration of how Alexa Plus could integrate into other apps, sandwiched between other announcements. But it caught my attention all the same — because whether Amazon […]
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"America loses, as does the success of democratic AI." OpenAI says the US will lose the AI race if it's unable to scrape copyrighted materials — and its favorite bogeyman, China, will take the crown instead. As Ars Technica reports, the Sam Altman-led company is begging president Donald Trump to instate federal regulations defining "fair use," the thorny […]
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In a statement, 35 signatories from dance, theatre and music industries express concern about ‘fragile ecosystem’. More than 30 performing arts leaders in the UK, including the bosses of the National Theatre, Opera North and the Royal Albert Hall, have joined the chorus of creative industry concern about the government’s plans to let artificial intelligence companies use artists’ work […]
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Users on social media have discovered a controversial use case for Google’s new Gemini AI model: removing watermarks from images, including from images published by Getty Images and other well-known stock media outfits. Last week, Google expanded access to its Gemini 2.0 Flash model’s image generation feature, which lets the model natively generate and edit image content. […]
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Google says regulators are too worried about risk. In spite of sky-high costs and little in the way of profits, generative AI systems continue to proliferate. The Trump administration has called for a national AI Action Plan to guide America's burgeoning AI industry, and OpenAI was happy to use that as an opportunity to decry the […]
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Watch out, fiction writers. OpenAI may have you in its crosshairs. In a post on X on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company has trained a “new model” that’s “really good” at creative writing. He posted a lengthy sample from the model given the prompt “Please write a metafictional literary short story about AI […]
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A federal judge is allowing an AI-related copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward, although he dismissed part of the suit. In Kadrey vs. Meta, authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates have alleged that Meta has violated their intellectual property rights by using their books to train its Llama AI models, and […]
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Label uses scale of problem to argue against UK government’s proposed loosening of rules Sony Music has revealed the scale of its battle with artificial intelligence fakes of its artists by saying it has taken down more than 75,000 examples of AI-generated material featuring its biggest stars, including Harry Styles. The company, one of the […]
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It comes after stars backed a campaign calling for plans to allow firms to use online material for AI without paying the creators to be changed.Sir Cameron Mackintosh (Ian West/PA) (PA Archive) West End impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh has said the Government’s proposed changes to amend copyright law around artificial intelligence (AI) would be an “idiotic and undemocratic […]
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Data licensing can support a thriving ecosystem for tech firms and creators For a still nascent technology, generative artificial intelligence already has an impressive resume. It can compose music, summarise wads of legal documents in seconds and generate television adverts based on minimal descriptive input. To become even cleverer, weed out errors and broaden its […]
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Exclusive: Authors asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’ system Australian writers, literary agents, and the industry’s peak body have expressed concern after Black Inc Books asked its authors to consent to their work being used to train artificial intelligence. The Melbourne publisher, […]
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TUC says proposals on copyright and AI framework must go further to stop exploitation by ‘rapacious tech bosses’ Action is needed to protect workers in creative industries amid huge changes in technology and artificial intelligence, unions have urged. The TUC said there was an urgent need to put in place “proper guardrails” for workers ranging from artists, writers […]
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Kate Bush, Damon Albarn and Annie Lennox are among a thousand musicians who've released a silent album to protest against artificial intelligence laws. Artists have warned government plans to change copyright law to allow AI models to train using songs could damage the sector. The record - called Is This What We Want? - features […]
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AI music generator Suno has been making a lot of big headlines in recent months. Just last month, the $500 million company was sued for copyright infringement by GEMA, the German collection society and licensing body. In June, Suno was sued by the major record companies, along with fellow AI firm Udio, for allegedly training their systems using the majors’ recordings without permission – […]
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‘Sora would not exist without its training data,’ said peer Beeban Kidron, citing ‘another level of urgency’ to debate. The artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT has launched its video generation tool in the UK amid a deepening row between the tech sector and creative industries over copyright. Beeban Kidron, the film director and cross-bench peer, said the […]
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Controversial government proposals to amend copyright law to allow access by developers of artificial intelligence systems have been cautiously welcomed by the Law Society. However practical adoption of the government’s proposed 'opt-out' model for data-mining will require careful consideration and must be underpinned by greater openness from developers, Chancery Lane said.  The Society was responding […]
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Exclusive: partial climbdown over use of work protected by copyright considered after intense lobbying by top artists Ministers are planning to offer key concessions to their plans to make it easier for artificial intelligence companies to use copyright-protected work, in a partial climbdown after weeks of lobbying from some of the world’s most famous artists. Sources […]
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Alleged copyright infringements in the training of AI models, compulsory mediation and the boundaries of Brexit are among the recent landmark developments exercising IP lawyers. Joanna Goodman reports The low down In the early weeks of 2025, IP lawyers have seen the first ruling in the UK to require compulsory mediation, and an important and high-profile decision […]
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Paul Glynn Culture reporter More than 1,000 musicians - including Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn and Kate Bush - released a silent album on Tuesday in protest at the UK government's planned changes to copyright law, which they say would make it easier for AI companies to train models using copyrighted work without a licence. Under […]
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In a letter to The Times, signatories including Kate Bush, Sir Stephen Fry and Dua Lipa say changes to the law will allow big tech to raid the creative sectors Andrew Lloyd Webber, Kate Bush, Sir Paul McCartney and Barbara Broccoli are among artists calling on ministers to prevent AI companies “stealing” copyright from Britain’s […]
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Government’s proposals could make it easier to train artificial intelligence models using artists’ works Thousands of British musicians, artists, authors and journalists have joined a wave of protests against government proposals that could make it easier for tech companies to use their work to train artificial intelligence models.   On Tuesday, the government will close a […]
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On Tuesday, a Delaware federal district court granted partial summary judgment to Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH (“Thomson Reuters”) in its copyright litigation against ROSS Intelligence (“ROSS”).1 The lawsuit, which was filed by Thomson Reuters in 2020, alleges that ROSS utilized copyrighted content from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw database in order to create its artificial intelligence (“AI”) […]
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The gaming industry is constantly evolving, and so are the trends in intellectual property (IP) management. From the rise of blockchain technology to the growing importance of user-generated content, staying updated on these trends can help game developers navigate IP challenges and opportunities. Here’s a look at the top trends in gaming IP.
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