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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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