In a significant executive shuffle announced Monday, OpenAI is expanding COO Brad Lightcap’s responsibilities while CEO Sam Altman shifts his attention more toward the company’s technical direction. Lightcap will now “oversee day-to-day operations,” international expansion, and manage […]
National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) head David Israelite just recently emphasized the stat, “one of the craziest” he’s seen, in a LinkedIn post. By now, many are aware of Spotify’s audiobook-bundling embrace, which is fueling significant royalty effects in the music world. And […]
UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has reiterated the government’s stance on AI copyright policy, urging critics not to “resist change” as discussions continue. The proposal, which would require creators to actively opt out if they do not want their work included in AI training datasets, has […]
Cloudflare, a global network service that helps some of the biggest websites in the world deliver content to users, has devised a new plan to deal with AI companies’ web scrapers. And the idea is as positively devious as it is ingenious. Basically, bots that don’t follow the rules laid out for […]
Can internet service providers be held liable for pirating subscribers? Internet provider Grande Communications asked the Supreme Court to review this key question. With no clear standards for handling copyright infringement notices, internet service providers are caught between a rock and a hard […]
The Independent is to launch a news service which it said will use Google AI tools to summarise its journalism for “time-poor audiences”. The publisher says all content written for the service, named Bulletin, will be “reviewed and checked” by journalists before publication and seven people […]
'No reason to weaken or eliminate the copyright protections'
The Songwriters Guild of America (SGA), the Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL), and Music Creators North America (MCNA) have released a joint statement addressing request for comments on the proposed AI Action Plan by the Trump administration. Together, they propose a legislative […]
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday affirmed that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence without human input cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed with the U.S. Copyright Office that an image […]
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 without permission. […]
