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Month: August 2025

Japanese media add to globe’s AI copyright infringement docket: Nikkei, Asahi Shimbun sue Perplexity AI over “free riding” in Tokyo District Court

August 27, 2025

Nikkei Inc. and The Asahi Shimbun Company are seeking an injunction against Perplexity AI, alleging that its GenAI-powered search engine unlawfully copies and stores articles from their websites, infringing copyright.
BREAKING: Anthropic settles book authors’ copyright class action — win for lawyer who got Fox to pay $800M for falsehoods about voting machines

August 26, 2025

Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey settled Dominion v. Fox in 2023 and has now struck the next major settlement representing book authors against Anthropic.
Anthropic draws judge’s ire in book authors’ multi-billion-dollar copyright case: “if Anthropic loses big it will be because what it did wrong was also big”

August 11, 2025

Judge Alsup has denied Anthropic’s motion for a stay and seized the opportunity to set the record straight on what the case is about and what his objective is.
OpenAI slapped with serious patent lawsuit for first time as French company attacks C2PA anti-(deep)fake news mechanism in eight countries

August 2, 2025

KeeeX is asserting a patent obtained by a French university and a French research institute. If it indeed reads on the C2PA standard, there are various other major defendants.

Japanese media add to globe’s AI copyright infringement docket: Nikkei, Asahi Shimbun sue Perplexity AI over “free riding” in Tokyo District Court