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“Bottomless pit of plagiarism”: Disney, Universal Studios file first major Hollywood AI copyright complaint
Read more: “Bottomless pit of plagiarism”: Disney, Universal Studios file first major Hollywood AI copyright complaintDisney and its subsidiaries Marvel Characters, MVL Film Finance, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox, as well as Universal City Studios Productions and its subsidiary Dreamworks, have sued AI company Midjourney for infringing famous, copyrighted works, such as Darth Vader from the Star Wars franchise and the Minions from “Despicable Me”.
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Top EU court receives first AI copyright case, raising general questions about text and data mining and questions specific to news snippets
Read more: Top EU court receives first AI copyright case, raising general questions about text and data mining and questions specific to news snippetsA Hungarian court has referred multiple copyright questions concerning LLMs to the European Court of Justice, whose answers will be binding on courts throughout the 27-country bloc.
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Google or Government: UK CMA faced with key choice in cloud market investigation, even more so after receiving new strategic steer
Read more: Google or Government: UK CMA faced with key choice in cloud market investigation, even more so after receiving new strategic steerWhat Google wants the UK Competition & Markets Authority to do in connection with software licensing in the cloud runs counter to the UK government’s new strategic steer.
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President Trump’s firing of U.S. copyright chief over Generative AI report threatens to politicize AI copyright debate
Read more: President Trump’s firing of U.S. copyright chief over Generative AI report threatens to politicize AI copyright debateThe Trump Administration’s decision to fire U.S. copyright chief Shira Perlmutter, presumably over a report on copyright and Generative AI, will have a polarizing effect.
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Microsoft makes digital commitments to Europe: open access to AI, cloud infrastructure, pledges to fight for European customers in U.S. court
Read more: Microsoft makes digital commitments to Europe: open access to AI, cloud infrastructure, pledges to fight for European customers in U.S. courtThe commitments include a promise to uphold Europe’s digital resilience regardless of geopolitical and trade volatility, Microsoft has announced.
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Cloud is now primarily about AI for Google, except when playing regulatory capture with UK CMA, EU Commission, other agencies
Read more: Cloud is now primarily about AI for Google, except when playing regulatory capture with UK CMA, EU Commission, other agenciesIn yesterday’s earnings call, Google parent Alphabet discussed its Google Cloud Platform business as part of its overall AI business rather than AI as one of many fields of use for cloud computing.


