News Will Europe’s top court give record companies a powerful new tool to fight online copyright infringement? The CJEU has been asked to decide if web services companies can be held liable for piracy on websites they service
News Udio’s bid to dismiss claims of ‘illegal scraping’ from YouTube contains ‘fatal flaws,’ record labels say If Udio gets its way, there will be no controls on copyrighted content made available to the public, record labels say
News Lizzo sued for alleged copyright violation in unreleased song snippet referencing Sydney Sweeney jeans ad A rep for Lizzo said they were 'surprised' by a lawsuit over a social media snippet of an unreleased song
News Suno and Udio face another lawsuit from indie artists over AI training, echoing major labels’ stream-ripping allegations The AI firms are being accused of maintaining internal libraries of copied audio and lyric files that staff and contractors access for testing and other purposes.
News Suno urges court to throw out record labels’ ‘stream-ripping’ allegations Suno doesn't deny stream-ripping songs from YouTube; the company argues the practice isn't prohibited by the DMCA
Analysis News 3 things you might have missed in the major labels’ Suno lawsuit The record companies suing AI music-making platform Suno have turned up the heat on the startup tech company.
News Labels settle copyright lawsuit against Internet Archive over streaming of vintage vinyl records The parties requested that Judge Maxine Chesney pause all case deadlines while they complete the settlement terms.
News Google, Amazon, Microsoft back Cox in Supreme Court case over $1bn copyright verdict The tech giants filed a joint brief supporting the ISP's appeal
News Anthropic to pay authors $1.5bn to settle lawsuit over using pirated books to train AI Anthropic agreed to pay $3,000 per work to a settlement fund that is expected to cover roughly 500,000 titles.
News Music publishers allege Anthropic used BitTorrent to pirate copyrighted lyrics Anthropic may face a new allegation from music companies: That it not only downloaded, but distributed lyrics without permission
News Anthropic faces setback in authors’ lawsuit ahead of UMG copyright battle: ‘If Anthropic loses big it will be because what it did was also big.’ A judge's rejection of stay request in Anthropic’s book piracy case sets precedent as the company faces a similar lawsuit against record labels.
News Supreme Court agrees to hear record labels’ piracy case against Cox Communications, in pivotal moment for music industry If the top court sides with Cox, it could mean internet providers will be shielded from lawsuits over piracy by their subscribers
News Court shoots down Sarah Silverman’s case against Meta’s AI – but declares using copyrighted works for training is NOT ‘fair use’ The latest ruling contradicts another ruling on AI and fair use, issued by a different judge in the same court just two days earlier
News Court rules Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train AI is ‘fair use’ – but it may not have much bearing on music rightsholders’ case against platform’s Claude Copyright owners can't prevent their works for being used for training, a California judge has ruled, but using pirated copies is another story
News Meta sued for alleged ‘rampant infringement’ of Eminem songs on Facebook, Instagram Eight Mile Style alleges that Meta doesn't have a license to including Eminem songs in its social media music libraries