With a growing coalition of supporters in entertainment and tech, a sweeping new law to address deepfakes and voice cloning is headed to the full Senate.
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The Atlantic [no paywall]: “…AI music generators can simulate human performances with surprising fidelity, but first they have to be trained on enormous quantities of those human performances. The actual recordings that go into any model are a closely guarded secret—AI companies have claimed they are proprietary—but the number of songs is almost certainly huge, ...
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A novel ruling on copyright termination has "unsettled 50 years of industry practice," the labels told the justices.
Musicians are accustomed to getting paid each time their creative work is used. Across vinyl/CD sales, streams, radio, cover versions, and those numerous niches like karaoke, there are agreements in place about what “use” means. Underlying this is a simple economic principle: The more something is used, the more money it makes.
Generative AI has complicated the definition of use. On the one…
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Whether you’re an indie artist wondering if your EP got scraped, or someone who generated a birthday jingle on Suno last week, The Atlantic’s databases aren’t just journalism. They’re evidence. The Napster debate is back — this time wearing a licensing agreement and filing for fair use — and it just got a searchable answer. These are among the most consequential tech scandals to emerge from the…
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Whether you’re an indie artist wondering if your EP got scraped, or someone who generated a birthday jingle on Suno last week, The Atlantic’s databases aren’t just journalism. They’re evidence. The Napster debate is back — this time wearing a licensing agreement and filing for fair use — and it just got a searchable answer. These are among the most consequential tech scandals to emerge from the…
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Reuters: “A group of major book publishers including the “Big Five” English-language book publishing houses — Hachette, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — sued an alleged pirated book website for copyright infringement in New York federal court on Tuesday. The publishers said in the complaint that WeLib hosts tens of millions ...
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In this week's Legal Beat newsletter, YouTube makes a surprising argument, Lionel Richie protects his voice, Diddy wins another civil case and much more.
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The departing _Late Night_ host jokingly hoped playing a Charlie Brown song wouldn't "cost CBS any money!" It apparently did.
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Albert Ahronheim and Joe Carl claim that two music publishers licensed their song to _College Football_ without authority for a “paltry” fee of $1,000.
The word 'copyright' doesn't appear once in Canada's 50-page AI strategy, despite promises last summer by the minister of artificial intelligence that it would be addressed.
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The Guardian: “Watchdog makes ruling on search summaries after publishers complain about drop in click-through traffic and revenue. Online publishers and news organisations are now able to block their content from appearing in Google’s AI summaries in UK search results, the British competition watchdog has announced.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the new requirement ...
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An attorney must repay the rapper's huge legal bill from a copyright lawsuit that his lawyers said “should never have been brought.”
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Follow up to $1.8 Billion Fund Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies, Decoding Fox News – The DOJ website now shows a blank page. Links to documents have been eliminated. I posted real time reporting throughout January 6, 2021 and identified a number of sources to access government documents specific to the event. These documents are ...
The former Late Night host's surprise ‘Only in Monroe’ appearance has gone viral
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The New York Times – Gift Article – Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform: “…Illegally copied audiobooks have also turned up on other platforms, where pirates sometimes disguise them as podcasts by breaking them into chapters. But publishers say YouTube ...
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Four new lawsuits claim Vince Guaraldi's iconic score has been used without permission or payment, including in a federal agency's digital Christmas card.
Anouska Samms claims a dress she has IP over is included in the museums' costume art exhibition without any credit to her
AI is transforming music production, but growing concerns over transparency, artistry, and human creativity are reshaping the future of the industry
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Press release: “…The report, “Acquittal by Removal: How Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda Abandons Crime Victims and Allows Perpetrators to Avoid Justice,” finds that in its push to meet deportation quotas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has deported victims, witnesses, and even criminal defendants before trials could be completed—derailing prosecutions and leaving serious crimes…
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A jury held the rapper liable for infringing an instrumental track at a 2021 listening party for his chart-topping album.
“La mia faccia è finita sulle loro televisioni senza alcun consenso”. Dua Lipa furibonda ha chiamato i migliori avvocati a sua disposizione e ha citato in giudizio Samsung, secondo quanto riportato da Variety. La richiesta di risarcimento è di 15 milioni di dollari. L’artista ha accusato formalmente il colosso tecnologico di aver utilizzato la sua […]
L'articolo “La mia faccia è finita sulle…
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Four writers are suing for a share of royalties from the 2024 song, which hit No. 7 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart.
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Consumers sick of AI ads? Now marketers are saying 'no' to AI content
The post Is saying ‘no AI’ now a strategic advantage for advertisers? appeared first on Digital Journal.
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A jury rejected Matthew Spatola's claims that he was a co-writer and producer on the No. 1 hit from 2020.
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ChatGPTisEatingtheWorld: “I continue to be most surprised by how publicly Anthropic is boasting about how Claude Code is writing all lines of computer code at Anthropic. Here’s Claude Code head Boris Cherny recently stating: “We use Claude for literally everything. There’s no more manually written code anywhere at the company [Anthropic]. All of the SQL ...
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The rapper took the witness stand on Wednesday (May 6) in a trial over a sample on early versions of the songs "Hurricane" and "Moon."
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ChatGPTis EatingtheWorld: “Total U.S. copyright suits v. AI companies hit 105. Elsevier and other book publishers, along with Scott Turow, have filed today a copyright suit against Mark Zuckerberg as well as Meta. The suit was filed in the Southern District of New York. The publishers allege copyright infringement in torrenting of datasets from shadow ...
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The world's largest music company says an appellate court should reject the rappers' legal challenge.
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The singer faced cross-examination in a trial over the songwriting and producing splits for his 2020 chart-topper.
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