The following blog post is part four of a four-part series on the use of pirated copies of copyrighted works by AI companies and whether such use should be considered to be fair use. This

‘People care about the songs, books and pictures that influence the critical moments in their lives,’ says the architect of the fightback in the UK

An overlooked DOJ document argues that copyright suits against AI companies should be widely dismissed.

Would you call large language models training on an internet's worth of content "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions"? Or perhaps you prefer the "largest theft of labor in human history"...

The following blog post is part three of a four-part series on the use of pirated copies of copyrighted works by AI companies and whether such use should be considered to be fair use. Previously,

(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their p...

Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.

As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.

The Justice Department is backing OpenAI in its high-stakes legal battle with the New York Times – arguing in a court filing that using copyrighted content to train artificial intelligence models d…

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It’s that time when teachers are busy preparing for the new school year. In developing curricula for students, teachers often wonder how copyright law applies to them when they incorporate copyrighted...

The Copyright Alliance has long supported the responsible, ethical, and respectful development and use of artificial intelligence (AI). However, we raise a ruckus on behalf of the copyright community ...

AI company faces multibillion dollar lawsuit over misuse of copyrighted songs to train Claude models

The complaint states that Kroger disclosed advertising costs of approximately $1.18 billion in 2025.

I am a big believer in states’ rights as a limit on the reach of the federal government.

Roku has added a new channel called Fairground AI that constantly broadcasts a curated mix of mind-numbing AI slop.

An important ruling for a major area.

This is dastardly stuff.

AI book buying in Europe has spread to at least seven countries, with anonymous ISBN-driven orders hitting booksellers from Galway to Berlin and Barcelona. Unlike in the US -- where a 2025 federal rul...

Meta Platforms Inc.'s bid to block publishers and authors from deposing CEO Mark Zuckerberg in their copyright suits accusing the tech giant of “industrial-scale piracy” to train AI models was rejecte...

In recent days, Taylor Swift’s music quietly disappeared from TikTok posts from the White House and “Team Trump” campaign accounts — without public condemnation, clapback or commenting from the singer...

The Machine Unlearning Research Hub informs musicians about AI’s challenges in removing their music after use, promoting informed decisions on music licensing.

The Copyright Alliance has long supported the responsible, ethical, and respectful development and use of artificial intelligence (AI). However, we raise a ruckus on behalf of the copyright community ...

Google Earth is supposed to be a reliable source of data.

New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.

A German ​court ruled on Friday that AI music firm Suno violated ​copyrights and has to disclose illicit revenue, part of a wider ⁠legal battle by artists and publishers against technology firms.

Getty Images has signed a display agreement with OpenAI, raising questions for the future of image libraries – and for the fair treatment of artists, writes Emily Gould

A court ruled the AI image did not infringe her original photograph.

The complaint was filed on July 20 in New York…

The allegation isn't about training data. It's about what came after.

Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier, as well as author Scott Turow, are looking to block the tech giant from engaging in alleged copyright infringement of millions of texts to develop ...

Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has become the subject of widespread mockery after whining that DeepSeek stole its intellectual property.

'The open secret is they steal from each other as much as they steal from creatives'

I had a strange phone call a few weeks ago. A prospective client asked me a question I didn't expect.

A group of newspapers including the New York Times and New York Daily News asked a ​federal court in Manhattan on Thursday to sanction OpenAI in their high-stakes copyright dispute for ‌allegedly lyin...

The tech giant said people can opt out - but privacy campaigners called it a "recipe for disaster".

OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.

The New York Times and several news outlets on Thursday filed a motion for sanctions against OpenAI.

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

More than 1,200 former Department of Justice employees have signed a letter urging the Senate to reject acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination to

As of mid-2026 over 130 copyright-related lawsuits have been filed by a range of book, news, journal and music content holders against a handful of AI platforms and hardware providers. Defendants i…

US companies hoping to make fortunes from AI want the creative product of our country to be available to them for free, or for peanuts. Words fail me

On June 30, the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet held a hearing titled A Midlife Crisis? IP and the Internet, which c...

The massive coalition of local newspaper publishers filed a federal lawsuit today against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the technology companies

Jamendo is seeking an injunction, plus actual damages and Nvidia’s profits of “no less than” EUR €17.8 million (approx. USD $20.3 million).

Thirteen publishers have united to sue WeLib for illegally coping 48 million books and 98 million papers to which they ask users to donate to receive faster access to donate the material.

Artists such as AC/DC, Kylie Minogue, INXS, Cold Chisel, Tina Arena, and more are among those whose work has been uncovered in these collections of data.