Copyrights

OpenAI says it will cover the legal costs for business-tier ChatGPT users that find themselves in hot water over copyright infringement.OpenAI is calling its pledge Copyright Shield which only covers users of its business-tier ChatGPT Enterprise and its developer platform. OpenAI isn’t cov ...

A new artificial intelligence-backed scam is as multi-faceted and lengthy as it is unconvincing  — at least for would-be victims who dig below the surface.I recently received a threatening “DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice” email from an alleged law firm claiming that a Cointel ...

The rapid emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) into the public sector has proven to be one of the biggest developments of the year on a global scale. Major industries have been turned upside down with AI now on the scene. In the creative sectors, the music industry in particular, ...

A professor from the Texas A&M University School of Law recently published research exploring blockchain technology use cases in the world of copyright administration. According to their findings, blockchain has the potential to radically alter the way intellectual property is handled both “d ...

Artificial intelligence developers heavily rely on illegally scraping copyrighted material from news publications and journalists to train their models, a news industry group has claimed.On Oct. 30, the News Media Alliance (NMA) published a 77-page white paper and accompanying submission t ...

Artists have been dealt a setback in their copyright fight against generative AI firms after a class-action lawsuit against several of the firms was dismissed by a United States judge, citing a lack of evidence.In an Oct. 30 order, California District Court Judge William Orrick said the co ...

A United States district court judge has ordered nonfungible token (NFT) artists Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen to pay Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs a total of $1.57 million in disgorgement and damages, along with legal fees, bringing an end to the long-running “copycat” NFT la ...

Google has been facing a wave of litigation recently as the implications of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on copyright and privacy rights become clearer.Amid the ever-intensifying debate, Google has not only defended its AI training practices but also pledged to shield users of i ...

Universal Music Group (UMG), Concord Publishing and ABKCO Music & Records have filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic on accusations of the latter committing copyright infringement in training its AI chatbot Claude.The lawsuit was filed on Oct. 18 an ...

Google has announced its commitment to protect users of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems within its Google Cloud and Workspace platforms in cases where they face allegations of intellectual property infringement. This move aligns Google with other companies like Microsoft, Adobe, and ...

The United States Copyright Office issued an official request for comments and notice of inquiry on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI) in the Federal Register on Aug. 30. The Copyright Office issued a notice of inquiry in t ...

Artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has launched “GPTBot” — its new web crawling tool which it says could potentially be used to improve future ChatGPT models.“Web pages crawled with the GPTBot user agent may potentially be used to improve future models,” Open ...

Japanese artificial intelligence experts and researchers are urging caution over the use of illegally obtained information to train AI, which they believe could lead to “a large number of copyright infringement cases,”  as well as job losses, false information and the leaking of confidential informa ...