Category: AI & Copyright
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Ross Intelligence appeals against ThomsonReuters originality, fair use rulings to the Third Circuit
The AI developer has petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to answer whether the headnotes at the core of its copyright dispute with ThomsonReuters fail the Copyright Act’s originality requirement because the notes lack “creative spark” and whether Ross’s use of the headnotes was “transformative, or otherwise fair”.
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Governments are stepping up on AI: Stanford University’s AI Index 2025
U.S. federal agencies introduced 59 AI-related regulations – more than double those in 2023 – and global investment in AI governance tripled to over $37 billion, an annual AI report has found.
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Central District of California denies Tesla’s bid to dismiss “Blade Runner” AI copyright infringement suit
A judge on Monday ruled that Alcon Entertainment’s copyright infringement claims may proceed against Elon Musk, Tesla and Warner Bros. Discovery. However, the judge is inclined to dismiss the plaintiff’s trademark misappropriation allegations.
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OpenAI, Microsoft defeat parts of NYT’s, other news industry plaintiffs’ copyright lawsuits at earliest stage; but summary judgment will be bigger
OpenAI and Microsoft have achieved a partial victory over copyright infringement lawsuits brought by the New York Times and other plaintiffs from the news industry, but the key battle will be summary judgment.
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Music publishers denied preliminary injunction in U.S. copyright infringement suit against Anthropic
The suit is one of a growing number of complaints filed against AI providers for copyright infringement in the music industry.
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French authors, publishers sue Meta in landmark AI copyright suit
The lawsuit is necessary to protect French authors and publishers from AI which “plunders their works and cultural heritage” to train itself, three of the country’s largest author and publisher trade associations have stated.
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European Commission’s third draft of General-Purpose AI Code of Practice: finer KPIs but ‘still risks undermining the EU’s digital competitiveness’
The third and final draft, ahead of expected publication in May, has more specific guidelines on copyright compliance, including text and data mining – but those obligations could “threaten trade secrets”, CCIA Europe has said.
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Chinese court rules AI-generated images of “Ultraman” infringe copyright
The Hangzhou Internet Court has found that a GenAI platform’s image generation of the Japanese sci-fi character Ultraman constituted contributory infringement of information network dissemination rights, and ordered it to pay 30,000 Chinese yuan ($4,206) in damages.