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Artists Against Copyright Infringement

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A group for all things related to copyright and intellectual property rights. Legal questions should be directed to an intellectual property attorney. We support creators! #copyright #piracy #IP #USCO #creators

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · Mar 28

"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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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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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 16h

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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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 16h

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

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 5d

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Establishing a totalitarian state - Why the Nazis were able to stay in power - Higher History Revision - BBC Bitesize

For Higher History, learn the methods the Nazis used to control the German population and maintain power.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 6d

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Establishing a totalitarian state - Why the Nazis were able to stay in power - Higher History Revision - BBC Bitesize

For Higher History, learn the methods the Nazis used to control the German population and maintain power.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

Reminds me of that old throwaway joke commonly used at roasts: "If you wanted a eulogy, you should have done something about it."

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 6d

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Establishing a totalitarian state - Why the Nazis were able to stay in power - Higher History Revision - BBC Bitesize

For Higher History, learn the methods the Nazis used to control the German population and maintain power.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 6d

Facing backlash, OpenAI reverses course: rightsholders will decide whether their copyrighted characters can be generated by the Sora 2 video app, with revenue sharing for those who opt in.

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Sora, Not Sorry: OpenAI Backtracks on Opt-Out Copyright Policy

OpenAI, facing backlash, will now let rightsholders decide whether their characters appear in Sora 2, with revenue sharing for those who opt in.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 6d

In the studios’ new cases, the tools’ mimicking copyrighted material “appears to be a feature rather than a bug.”

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Disney’s Output Focus Puts Fresh Spin on AI Copyright Litigation

Disney, Warner Bros., and other entertainment giants put a new twist on the copyright war against generative AI by focusing lawsuits on audiovisual outputs rather than training data, altering both the...

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 7d

The creative economy is one of America’s most valuable exports. Hollywood movies dominate box offices from Seoul to São Paulo, American music and streaming platforms set global tastes, and U.S. publishing supplies the backbone of education worldwide.

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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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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 7d

The acting guild believes “creativity is, and should remain, human-centered” and “is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.”

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AI Actress Tilly Norwood Condemned by SAG-AFTRA: Tilly ‘Is Not an Actor… It Has No Life Experience to Draw From, No Emotion’

SAG-AFTRA issued a statement on the AI 'actress' Tilly Norwood, saying she is not a real performer and can never be.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 8d

The court reportedly was skeptical that OpenAI can escape liability by shifting the responsibility to users of ChatGPT who seek and obtain the outputs of song lyrics.

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Munich Regional I Court preliminarily indicates OpenAI liable for copyright infringement of song lyrics. Decision on Nov. 11, 2025.

Florian Mueller of AI Fray provides an excellent summary of the trial held by Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court) in the lawsuit filed by GEMA, the collecting society representing autho…

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 9d

The tool makes it easy to spin short, polished videos from text prompts or images, complete with a social-media-style feed. But...unless rights holders affirmatively opt out, their characters may appear in Sora-generated clips.

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New Sora AI App Forces Hollywood to Opt Out or Get Played

I tested OpenAI's new Sora 2 video app. Within minutes I was generating branded cartoon clips. Hollywood's AI headache just got animated.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 11d

The opt-out process for the new version of Sora means that movie studios and other intellectual property owners would have to explicitly ask OpenAI not to include their copyright material in videos the tool creates.

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Exclusive | OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the company notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 14d

The amended complaint against Suno maintains that the AI music startup fed “decades worth of the world’s most popular sound recordings” into its AI models without authorization from record companies.

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Record labels claim AI generator Suno illegally ripped their songs from YouTube

Putting fair use to the test.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 14d

The United States has a long history of leading the world in innovation and creativity. This leadership is the result of, and is dependent on, established and strong U.S. intellectual property laws.

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Setting the Record Straight About America’s Copyright and AI Policy | Copyright Alliance

With U.S. policymakers and judges considering the very important question of how copyright law applies in the context of AI, especially AI training, there’s been an unfortunate deluge of falsehoods an...

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 15d

The Trump administration has said it intends to audit exhibitions and holdings at eight Smithsonian Institution museums to determine whether they align with the "President's directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive [and] partisan narratives.”

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Photographer Sally Mann warns of 'new era of culture wars' after art seizure

As she reflects on her career in a second memoir, Sally Mann warns of a "new era of culture wars" after police pulled several photographs she took of her children decades ago off the walls of a museum...

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 16d

The deal is simultaneously groundbreaking and trivial, a paradox that reveals how artificial intelligence has fundamentally altered the economics of copyright infringement.

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Anthropic’s $1.5 Billion Speeding Ticket

It’s the largest copyright settlement in history. But for Anthropic, it’s a toll booth, not a stop sign.

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · Nov 13

The Authors Guild exists to support working writers.

Learn what we're doing about AI:
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Join us to stop book banning:
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Advocacy - The Authors Guild

Pillars of Our Mission Learn where we stand on core issues affecting writers. Copyright We are dedicated to preserving effective copyright protection so authors can make a living writing. Learn More F...

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 21d

The project presents a problem for recording companies and music publishers, as much of the music remains under copyright and continues to be commercially exploited.

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Labels settle copyright lawsuit against Internet Archive over streaming of vintage vinyl records - Music Business Worldwide

The parties requested that Judge Maxine Chesney pause all case deadlines while they complete the settlement terms.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 22d

The “siege” they fear is a figment of their own imagination. Site blocking isn’t some theoretical concept where we are left to predict what might happen if deployed. It’s been tried and tested globally for over a decade and passed with flying colors.

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When Tech Giants Cry Wolf: A Flawed Case Against Judicial Site Blocking | Copyright Alliance

Two recent reports (here and here) commissioned by the internet infrastructure lobby paint a picture of an internet under siege from overzealous governments – particularly as it relates to laws allowi...

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 23d

“MiniMax operates Hailuo AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence image and video generating service that pirates and plunders Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works on a massive scale,” the companies said in the lawsuit, filed Tuesday.

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Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBCU Sue Chinese AI Company MiniMax, Alleging It ‘Pirates and Plunders’ Studios’ Copyrighted Works on ‘Massive Scale’

Disney, WBD and NBCUniversal filed a lawsuit against MiniMax, a Chinese AI company, alleging "willful and brazen" copyright infringement.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 27d

Downloading and storing pirated content is clearly not legal, even if it is to be used for a fair use purpose.

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Why 'Fair Use' Cannot Justify Piracy in AI Training Cases

Explore why 'fair use' doesn't excuse piracy in the landmark Anthropic case and its implications for the future of AI and copyright law.

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