An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip ~tech Article 1026 words 39 votes
Popeye, Tintin and more will enter the public domain in the new year ~comics Article 1289 words, published Dec 26 2024 51 votes
Copyright abuse is getting Luigi Mangione merch removed from the internet – artists, merch sellers, and journalists making and posting Luigi media have become the targets of bogus DMCA claims ~tech internet Article 2009 words 65 votes
The Just World Cultural License—a copyleft license to make the world a better place ~creative Article 7029 words 11 votes
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment. Suchir Balaji, 26, claimed the company broke copyright law. ~tech Article 825 words 35 votes
Global value of music copyright soars to $45.5bn, now worth more than cinema ~music Article 6254 words, published Nov 25 2024 11 votes
US Copyright Office exemption makes McDonald’s ice cream machines repairable ~food restaurants.chain Article 301 words 50 votes
AI artist says he’s losing money from people stealing his work ~arts art.generative Article 726 words 35 votes
5etools repository taken down after DMCA request by Wizards of the Coast ~games.tabletop dungeons and dragons Link 42 votes
AI music generator Suno admits it was trained on ‘essentially all music files on the internet’ ~tech internet Article 575 words 39 votes
Music record labels sue AI song-generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement ~music Article 722 words 15 votes
Musi’s free music streaming app is a hit with thrifty teens. The app claims to tap content on YouTube, but some in the music industry question the legitimacy of that model. ~music Article 2057 words 18 votes
In US lawsuit, ex-Amazon AI exec claims she was asked to ignore IP law ~tech amazon Article 1499 words 25 votes
How one author pushed the limits of AI copyright | US Copyright Office grants copyright for work made with AI, with caveat ~tech Article 716 words 5 votes
What I did when my art got stolen (I got help from lawyers and posted on social media) ~arts art Video 1:32:07 17 votes
Danish man on trial over accusations he fraudulently made more than £502,000 in royalties on music streaming sites ~music Article 609 words 9 votes
Squishmallows vs. Build-A-Bear, the cutest legal scuffle ever, is heating up ~finance business Article 759 words 22 votes
The price is wrong: How error-riddled scores get in the way of promoting music of marginalized composers ~music classical Article 3540 words 12 votes
I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine ~tech Article 3367 words 30 votes
George Carlin estate sues creators of AI-generated comedy special in key lawsuit over stars’ likenesses ~tech Article 1245 words, published Jan 26 2024 37 votes
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says ~tech Article 604 words, published Jan 8 2024 44 votes
Tachiyomi removes Mangadex and Bato.to repositories due to DMCA takedown from Kako ~anime manga Link 27 votes
The New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over the use of its stories to train chatbots ~tech microsoft Article 376 words 62 votes
Sculptor sues Swedish glassmaker Kosta Boda for €1m in test of EU ‘bestseller clause’ – landmark case may open door to retrospective claims across bloc ~design Article 1074 words 6 votes
Sarah Silverman hits stumbling block in AI copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta ~tech Article 741 words, published Nov 21 2023 45 votes
CASETiFY copied my dbrand teardown skins and we're suing them ~tech Video 13:45, published Nov 23 2023 28 votes
Artists lose first copyright battle in the fight against AI-generated images ~tech Article 612 words 23 votes
Getty Images to debut its own AI image generator which will be trained on Getty’s own data ~arts art.generative photography Article 77 words 16 votes
Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers ~tech Article 931 words, published Sep 7 2023 19 votes
Japanese YouTuber sentenced to two years in prison for sharing gameplay and anime videos ~games Article 249 words 16 votes
What’s inside that McDonald’s ice cream machine? Broken copyright law. ~tech Article 684 words 33 votes
Report: Potential New York Times lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over ~tech Article 835 words 75 votes
The classic arcade game that crashes itself for anti-piracy reasons ~comp programming hardware Video 29:57, published Jul 28 2023 14 votes