Artists Against Copyright Infringement
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State battles Blackbeard suit at federal Appeals Court
Lawyers representing the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources are asking federal appellate judges to toss out a long-running copyright lawsuit over images linked to the pirate B...
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"The district court held that Allen plausibly alleged that the Department violated the Copyright Act by directly infringing his copyrighted works."
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The coalition argues Cox was sent numerous notices of specific IP addresses repeatedly violating music copyrights and that Cox's failure to terminate those IP addresses from internet access means that Cox should face the music.
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Supreme Court weighs copyright fight between music industry and internet providers
At issue is whether internet providers can be liable for their users' committing copyright violations using its services.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The coalition argues Cox was sent numerous notices of specific IP addresses repeatedly violating music copyrights and that Cox's failure to terminate those IP addresses from internet access means that Cox should face the music.
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The AI entertainment landscape is starting to shift, with deals springing up between formerly adversarial AI companies and entertainment corporations, especially in the music space.
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New licensing deal highlights the growing trend of media giants embracing AI
The AI entertainment landscape is starting to shift, with deals springing up between formerly adversarial AI companies and entertainment corporations, especially in the music space.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The AI entertainment landscape is starting to shift, with deals springing up between formerly adversarial AI companies and entertainment corporations, especially in the music space.
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"Copying protectable expression to create a competing substitute isn’t innovation: it’s theft," Thomson Reuters argues in papers filed Wednesday with the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
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AI Company Infringed Copyright, Thomson Reuters Argues
Thomson Reuters is urging an appeals court to leave in place a ruling that artificial intelligence company Ross Intelligence infringed copyright by training its legal research service on material
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November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"Copying protectable expression to create a competing substitute isn’t innovation: it’s theft," Thomson Reuters argues in papers filed Wednesday with the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
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WMG said that the “next-generation music creation, listening, and discovery platform” will be powered by generative AI models trained on licensed and authorized music.
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Warner Music settles copyright lawsuit with Udio, signs deal for AI music platform | TechCrunch
The subscription service will allow users to make remixes, covers, and new songs using the voices of artists and compositions of songwriters who choose to participate.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
WMG said that the “next-generation music creation, listening, and discovery platform” will be powered by generative AI models trained on licensed and authorized music.
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The platforms not only made searching for infringing copies impossible, but they often stalled or simply stopped responding to DMCA takedowns. Stolen videos would stay up for months, getting tens of millions of views while my YouTube originals faltered.
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Creator Spotlight: Storm Chaser & Photographer Dan Robinson
This week, we're pleased to introduce you to former professional storm chaser and photographer, Dan Robinson. Dan has been in the industry for over 33 years, where he has seen "190 tornadoes and cover...
copyrightalliance.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The platforms not only made searching for infringing copies impossible, but they often stalled or simply stopped responding to DMCA takedowns. Stolen videos would stay up for months, getting tens of millions of views while my YouTube originals faltered.
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Judge Colleen McMahon held that “substitutive summaries”—non-verbatim outputs that mirror the expressive structure and journalistic storytelling choices of the originals—may plausibly infringe copyright. That was enough to let the claims move forward.
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Court Rules AI News Summaries May Infringe Copyright
News publishers just cleared a key hurdle against Cohere in a copyright fight over AI-generated "substitutive summaries" of their reporting.
copyrightlately.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Judge Colleen McMahon held that “substitutive summaries”—non-verbatim outputs that mirror the expressive structure and journalistic storytelling choices of the originals—may plausibly infringe copyright. That was enough to let the claims move forward.
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Zlozower claimed the museum neither licensed the photo nor provided credit or a source when exhibiting the image of the band in the exhibit about guitars.
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Photographer Loses Lawsuit After Museum’s Use of His Image Is Ruled Fair Use
The judge agreed with the photographer's argument but ruled it was fair use.
petapixel.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Zlozower claimed the museum neither licensed the photo nor provided credit or a source when exhibiting the image of the band in the exhibit about guitars.
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Videographer Rick Allen says North Carolina illegally copied his work without permission or payment. More than a decade later, he’s still trying to get paid.
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Avast! Fayetteville Man Continues Lawsuit Against State Over Footage of Blackbeard’s Ship
After 12 years, Rick Allen of Fayetteville is still fighting NC officials in court over photos and videos he made of Blackbeard's pirate ship
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November 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Videographer Rick Allen says North Carolina illegally copied his work without permission or payment. More than a decade later, he’s still trying to get paid.
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The court found that both the memorisation in the language models and the reproduction of the song lyrics in the chatbot's outputs constitute infringements of copyright exploitation rights, according to a statement on the ruling.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The court found that both the memorisation in the language models and the reproduction of the song lyrics in the chatbot's outputs constitute infringements of copyright exploitation rights, according to a statement on the ruling.
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The family of the American artist Norman Rockwell has called upon federal agencies to stop using the artist’s work in content promoting the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies.
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Rockwell Family Denounces DHS Posts
The family of Norman Rockwell has called upon federal agencies to stop using the artist’s work in content promoting anti-immigration policies.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The family of the American artist Norman Rockwell has called upon federal agencies to stop using the artist’s work in content promoting the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies.
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There’s a reason that copyright law has never embraced an opt-out system and that’s because opt-out systems do not work. There are many legal, technical, operational, and policy problems and inefficiencies with an opt-out system.
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Why AI Opt-Out Systems Don’t Work | Copyright Alliance
Throughout the history of the United States, our copyright system has always been an opt-in system. That means if someone wants to use a copyrighted work, they have to get permission from the copyrigh...
copyrightalliance.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
There’s a reason that copyright law has never embraced an opt-out system and that’s because opt-out systems do not work. There are many legal, technical, operational, and policy problems and inefficiencies with an opt-out system.
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According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750.
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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750.
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There’s a principle that keeps a free market free: You can’t take what isn’t yours and sell it as your own. Yet, that is precisely what some of the most prominent players in artificial intelligence are doing.
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AI’s Free Ride on Creative Labor Is Undermining the Marketplace – DC Journal - InsideSources
There’s a principle that keeps a free market free: You can’t take what isn’t yours and sell it as your own. Yet, that is precisely what some of the most
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November 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
There’s a principle that keeps a free market free: You can’t take what isn’t yours and sell it as your own. Yet, that is precisely what some of the most prominent players in artificial intelligence are doing.
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“These AI-generated synthetic imitations involuntarily resurrect iconic music performers, sports figures and actors without consent, context, or compensation—reducing cultural heritage to algorithmic spectacle and gratuitous ridicule,” it blasts.
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Musicians’ heirs hit out at AI deepfakes as 'digital grave robbing’
The debates about how AI technology should be regulated continue, with the latest views coming from a group of organisations and heirs.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“These AI-generated synthetic imitations involuntarily resurrect iconic music performers, sports figures and actors without consent, context, or compensation—reducing cultural heritage to algorithmic spectacle and gratuitous ridicule,” it blasts.
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The question isn't whether AI will transform our world—it already is. The question is whether we'll learn from our mistakes. Or having not learned, we are destined to repeat them.
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When "Move Fast and Break Things" Breaks People: What Social Media's Reckoning Teaches Us About AI
There’s an old adage: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. It’s time to apply the lessons of the social media platforms to AI. Anything less would be foolish.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The question isn't whether AI will transform our world—it already is. The question is whether we'll learn from our mistakes. Or having not learned, we are destined to repeat them.
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[Anthropic] markets itself as providing ethical AI, yet it trained its models using books stolen from piracy websites. When challenged in court, it agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy the pirated materials without admitting wrongdoing.
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Anthropic Settlement Signals AI Innovation Can Thrive Within Existing Copyright Framework
The $1.5 billion settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic, recently granted preliminary approval, is the largest copyright settlement in American legal history. That's impressive, but more important, it shows...
ipwatchdog.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
[Anthropic] markets itself as providing ethical AI, yet it trained its models using books stolen from piracy websites. When challenged in court, it agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy the pirated materials without admitting wrongdoing.
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OpenAI's AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much.
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It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde
His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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October 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
OpenAI's AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much.
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Meta wants access to the photos on Facebook users’ smartphone camera rolls. The privacy concerns are obvious and there are important considerations about how these photos may be used to train AI.
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Meta Wants Its AI to Learn From Your Camera Roll
Facebook can help you find shareworthy photos that you haven't shared, but there's a price to pay.
petapixel.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Meta wants access to the photos on Facebook users’ smartphone camera rolls. The privacy concerns are obvious and there are important considerations about how these photos may be used to train AI.
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“That doesn’t mean that the state then has free license to violate due process by infringing copyrights freely. Just because we can’t sue them doesn’t mean it’s right to infringe, doesn’t mean it’s right to steal property.”
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Fourth Circuit appears posed to reject renewed Blackbeard copyright suit
A now-repealed law allowed a North Carolina agency to publish copyrighted photos of Blackbeard's pirate ship, but the owner of those photos says the state violated his due process rights.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“That doesn’t mean that the state then has free license to violate due process by infringing copyrights freely. Just because we can’t sue them doesn’t mean it’s right to infringe, doesn’t mean it’s right to steal property.”
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Kenny Loggins has spoken out against Donald Trump using his song “Danger Zone” in a bizarre AI video of the president in a fighter jet bombing No Kings protesters with what appears to be fecal matter.
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Kenny Loggins Slams Donald Trump for Using ‘Danger Zone’ in AI Video Bombing No Kings Protesters With Poop: ‘I Request That My Recording Is Removed Immediately’
Kenny Loggins has spoken out against Trump using his song "Danger Zone" in a bizarre AI video of him bombing No Kings protesters with fecal matter.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Kenny Loggins has spoken out against Donald Trump using his song “Danger Zone” in a bizarre AI video of the president in a fighter jet bombing No Kings protesters with what appears to be fecal matter.
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Reposted by Artists Against Copyright Infringement
Copyright should not be treated as a barrier to U.S. strength in AI. It is the foundation of that strength.
In a new opinion piece published in The Hill, Trip Adler—Co-Founder and CEO of Created by Humans—says, "In the fight over #AI, #copyright is America’s competitive weapon.” Learn more by reading Trip’s op-ed here!
In the fight over AI, copyright is America’s competitive weapon
Recently, a new $100 million super-PAC network, Leading the Future, was introduced to shape artificial intelligence policy in next year’s elections. The group says it will fight for sensible guardr…
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October 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Copyright should not be treated as a barrier to U.S. strength in AI. It is the foundation of that strength.
Apple “continues to retain private AI training-data, including pirated books,” to train future models without compensating rightsholders or seeking their consent, the professors said.
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Apple Accused of AI Copyright Infringement by SUNY Professors
Apple Inc. flouted copyright law when it used pirated materials and copies of e-books sold on its own books app to train its AI tool Apple Intelligence, a pair of State University of New York professo...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Apple “continues to retain private AI training-data, including pirated books,” to train future models without compensating rightsholders or seeking their consent, the professors said.
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When an ALI project is so riddled with disagreements that a substantial number of participants feel the need to resign and ask that their names be removed from the final product, it calls into question the legitimacy of the project.
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Mass Resignations Call into Question Legitimacy of ALI Copyright Restatement
In recent posts published on this blog (see here and here), the drafters of the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Copyright Restatement promoted
legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
When an ALI project is so riddled with disagreements that a substantial number of participants feel the need to resign and ask that their names be removed from the final product, it calls into question the legitimacy of the project.
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Under copyright law, rightsholders can sue and obtain statutory damages for individual acts of infringement — regardless of whether the infringer offers an opt-out or not.
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Motion Picture Association Blasts OpenAI Over Sora 2 Video Copyright Opt-Outs
The Motion Picture Association argued that OpenAI - and not copyright holders - is responsible for keeping infringing material off its platform.
variety.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Under copyright law, rightsholders can sue and obtain statutory damages for individual acts of infringement — regardless of whether the infringer offers an opt-out or not.
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Midjourney has become a vending machine for WB content, selling a commercial service powered by AI that was developed using infringing copies of WB works and then allows users to reproduce or download infringing images or videos.
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Warner Bros. vs. Midjourney: Copyright Clash Over Bugs Bunny
Explore the legal clash between Warner Bros. and Midjourney over AI-generated Bugs Bunny images and copyright infringement issues.
hughstephensblog.net
October 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Midjourney has become a vending machine for WB content, selling a commercial service powered by AI that was developed using infringing copies of WB works and then allows users to reproduce or download infringing images or videos.
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