DMCA claims tossed, but direct infringement claims remains
As reported earlier today (March 26), a federal judge in California shot down a request from UMG and the other music publishers (including Concord and ABCKO) to block the AI company from using song lyrics to train its AI models. Importantly, the court did, however, issue two separate but related […]
With fewer people stopping by the box office, Regal Cinemas, Pacific Theatres, Alamo Drafthouse and others filed for Chapter 11. Some of these companies have reemerged after bankruptcy; others have dimmed their marquees forever. As a result, North America has 5,691 fewer screens compared with […]
The industry bodies demand that AI developers obtain proper licenses before using copyrighted works to train their models. They point to precedents like OpenAI’s licensing agreements with media companies such as ShutterStock and the Financial Times as a positive model. The recommendation […]
PPL, the UK’s collective management organization (CMO) for performers and recording rightsholders, recorded the highest revenue in its 90-year history in 2024. Revenue for the year rose 6% year-on-year to GBP £301 million (USD $384.4 million at the average exchange rate for 2024) from the […]
Today’s refined GPT-4o model makes it easier for consumers, and businesses, to create more life-like images and paragraphs of comprehensible text—and even company logos and slide decks, OpenAI said. Behind the improvement to GPT-4o is a group of “human trainers” who labeled training data […]
A lawsuit filed by several authors against Meta centers on Meta’s alleged use of pirated books for AI training data and the technical details of BitTorrent. Yesterday, Meta filed a motion for summary judgment, while countering the authors’ request to resolve the copyright claims in their favor. […]
The fundamental problem of licenses undermining libraries and scholarly research remains, even as technology and business models shift. Today, some publishers are attempting to implement new contractual bans on artificial intelligence by sending impromptu addendums to their customers and, in some […]
Rohan Sahai, who leads the Sora product team, tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview that there’s been considerable interest from the entertainment industry, without specifying the contours of the conversations. He sees utilization of the tools across most stages of production as the tools […]
In recent weeks, Meta, Google, OpenAI and others have asked the Trump administration to block state A.I. laws and to declare that it is legal for them to use copyrighted material to train their A.I. models. They are also lobbying to use federal data to develop the technology, as well as for easier […]
