Artists Against Copyright Infringement

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 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...

[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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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

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 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.

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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Fourth Circuit appears posed to reject renewed Blackbeard copyright suit A now-repealed law allowed a North Carolina agency to publish copyrighted photos of Blackbeard's pirate ship, but the owner of those photos says the state violated his due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.

“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 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.

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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Copyright should not be treated as a barrier to U.S. strength in AI. It is the foundation of that strength.

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...

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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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

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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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.

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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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.

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

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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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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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.

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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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...

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

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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…

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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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.

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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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…

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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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.

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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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.

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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Record labels claim AI generator Suno illegally ripped their songs from YouTube Putting fair use to the test.

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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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...

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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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...

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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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.

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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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.

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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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...

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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