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CNN sues Perplexity over ‘verbatim’ copycat articles

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CNN has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, claiming that the startup’s AI tools generate “verbatim” copies of its work, as reported earlier by CNN. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on Thursday, also alleges that Perplexity provides users with information locked behind CNN’s subscription. Perplexity, which offers an AI “answer” engine along with […]

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A folk musician became a target for AI fakes and a copyright troll

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In January, folk artist Murphy Campbell discovered several songs on her Spotify profile that did not belong there. They were songs that she had recorded, but she’d never uploaded them to Spotify, and something was off about the vocals. She quickly surmised that someone had pulled performances of the songs she posted to YouTube, created […]

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Cox Communications not liable for pirated music, Supreme Court rules

The Supreme Court has issued its ruling in a lengthy copyright battle between Cox Communications and major record labels, determining that the cable and internet service provider isn’t responsible for illegally downloaded music, as reported earlier by the Associated Press. The unanimous decision says Cox “neither induced its users’ infringement nor provided a service tailored […]

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Supreme Court won’t hear AI-generated art copyright case

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The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a case over whether AI-generated art can obtain a copyright, as reported earlier by Reuters. The Monday decision comes after Stephen Thaler, a computer scientist from Missouri, appealed a court’s decision to uphold a ruling that found AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted. In 2019, the US Copyright […]

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Everyone is stealing TV

Walk the rows of the farmers market in a small, nondescript Texas town about an hour away from Austin, and you might stumble across something unexpected: In between booths selling fresh, local pickles and pies, there’s a table piled high with generic-looking streaming boxes, promising free access to NFL games, UFC fights, and any cable […]

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X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA takedowns

X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing, as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. The Elon Musk-owned platform accuses music publishers of colluding with the NMPA to “coerce X into taking licenses to musical works from […]

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Public domain 2026: Betty Boop, Pluto, and Nancy Drew set free

Some years ago, I was writing a science fiction short story in which I wanted to incorporate verses from a 1928 song, “Button Up Your Overcoat.” However, when I sold the story, my editor told me that since the song was still copyrighted, it was safer not to include the verses. If I had written […]

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John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies

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These authors rejected Anthropic’s class action settlement, arguing that “LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates.”

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OpenAI’s billion-dollar Disney deal puts Mickey Mouse and Marvel in Sora

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A new three-year licensing agreement announced between Disney and ChatGPT operator OpenAI will allow the Sora video generator to create “user-prompted social videos” that feature more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars. According to OpenAI’s blog post announcing the deal: Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that […]

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