Category: AI & Copyright
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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
A 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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President Trump’s firing of U.S. copyright chief over Generative AI report threatens to politicize AI copyright debate
The 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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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.