The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training ~tech internet browsers Article 1697 words 59 votes
Two authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT unlawfully ‘ingested’ their books ~tech Article 868 words, published Jul 5 2023 36 votes
Anger from voice actors as NSFW mods use AI deepfakes to replicate their voices ~games Article 617 words 59 votes
Streaming sites urged to stop AI from cloning pop stars ~tech apple.music Article 663 words, published Apr 12 2023 7 votes
Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content ~tech Article 1014 words, published Jan 17 2023 14 votes
ABBA's massive 1979 hit Chiquitita has never earned the Swedish supergroup a penny – Björn Ulvaeus gave the copyright to Unicef ~music pop Article 935 words 6 votes
Adblocking does not constitute copyright infringement, German court rules ~tech Article 823 words 11 votes
Section 1201 exemptions to prohibition against circumvention of technological measures protecting copyrighted works (2021) ~comp Article 245 words 7 votes
Stockfish developers sue chessbase over GPL violations ~tech Article 611 words, published Jul 23 2021 9 votes
Illinois officer claims Sheriff's office told him to play copyrighted music to shut down citizens' recordings ~tech Article 22 votes
Denmark now has two Little Mermaids. The famous one is suing. ~arts Article 1259 words, published Aug 17 2021 7 votes
The end of ownership: How big companies are trying to turn everyone into renters ~finance business Article 956 words 29 votes
The EU Intellectual Property Office rules against Banksy in his trademark fight with a greeting card company, citing his own statement that ‘Copyright is for losers’ and his anonymity ~arts Article 682 words 13 votes
YouTube can now warn creators about copyright issues before videos are posted ~tech social media internet Article 415 words 15 votes
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. lawsuit: Can APIs be copyrighted? ~comp Article 4152 words 14 votes
January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all! ~arts Article 3842 words 28 votes
Apple loses copyright battle against security start-up Corellium ~tech apple security Article 399 words 6 votes
Sweeping new copyright measures poised to pass in spending bill - The CASE Act and a felony streaming proposal are included ~tech Article 448 words 36 votes
Clive Barker, who wrote and directed the 1987 horror flick Hellraiser, has successfully leveraged copyright law to recapture the American rights to the franchise ~movies horror Article 302 words 8 votes
Scientific publishers consider installing spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights ~tech privacy Article 1073 words 9 votes
The RIAA's fraudulent attack on youtube-dl is not a DMCA §512 infringement/safe-harbour, and the reality is weird ~tech Link 37 votes
Nintendo’s lawyers nuke ‘The Missing Link’ fangame with copyright complaint ~games Article 648 words 12 votes
The Online Content Policy Modernization Act is an unconstitutional mess ~tech internet Article 891 words 7 votes
Human rights and "technical protection measures" (DRM) - Lessons from twenty-two years of the US DMCA ~tech Article 5492 words 9 votes
Twitter disables video in Trump retweet after Linkin Park files copyright complaint ~tech social media Article 372 words 10 votes
Internet Archive ends its "National Emergency Library" unlimited digital book-lending program in response to lawsuit filed by publishers ~tech Article 481 words 14 votes
Copyright blocks interview of protesters because Marvin Gaye's 'Let's get it on' was playing in the background ~tech facebook social media Article 327 words, published Jun 3 2020 17 votes
Four major US publishers sue Internet Archive for copyright infringement, alleging that it has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public ~books libraries Article 665 words 30 votes
Copyright bots and classical musicians are fighting online. The bots are winning ~music classical Article 1947 words 15 votes
America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis ~tech Article 1408 words 9 votes