One week after Google updated its user privacy policy to allow data scraping from millions of users for artificial intelligence (AI) training purposes, the tech giant is now facing a class-action lawsuit. Google, its parent company Alphabet, and Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind, were accused in a July 11 filing in a federal court in San…
Google Being Sued Over New AI Data-Scraping Privacy Policy
July 13, 2023
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Sarah Silverman Sues Meta, OpenAI for Copyright Infringement
Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models. The proposed class action lawsuits filed by Ms. Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court Friday allege Facebook parent company Meta and…
Music Publishers Sue Twitter for $250 Million Over Alleged Copyright Infringement
Twitter has been sued by the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) for alleged copyright violations involving nearly 1,700 songs. The lawsuit (pdf) was filed in federal court in the Federal District Court in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 14 by NMPA on behalf of 17 major and independent music publishing companies including Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony Music Publishing, BMG…
Ed Sheeran Victory: Songwriters Are Not Piggybanks
May 11, 2023
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Ed Sheeran was cleared in court of copyright infringement that the estate of Marvin Gaye alleged. The song in question is Sheeran’s 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud” and whether it had too much similarity to the 1973 Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend’s hit, “Let’s Get It On.” The victory is significant not only for Sheeran…
Ed Sheeran Faces US Copyright Trial Over Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’
Jury selection is set to begin on Monday in Manhattan federal court for a trial over claims that British pop superstar Ed Sheeran owes a share of profits from his hit “Thinking Out Loud” for copying Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” Heirs of songwriter Ed Townsend sued Sheeran, his label Warner Music Group, and…
A Rebel’s Reading List
Commentary Here is a bitter irony for you. Just as the world’s greatest literature of all ages became available to every person, mostly at no charge, and with only a search and a click, it seems like most people have lost interest. What incredible and tragic timing! For a large part of the 18th and…
Biden Administration Sides With Photographer in Dispute Over Andy Warhol Prince Print
August 17, 2022
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In a Supreme Court filing, the Biden administration sided with a photographer who claims her intellectual property rights were violated by Andy Warhol’s eponymous foundation when it published multiple stylized prints he made based on her photo of the iconic musician Prince. Warhol, a painter, print-maker, and multimedia artist, died in 1987 at age 58….
YouTube Could Be Liable for Unauthorised Uploads If Slow to Act, German Court Rules
June 3, 2022
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BERLIN—Google’s YouTube and other platforms could have to pay copyright damages over unauthorized uploads even if the content was put online by a third party, Germany’s top court ruled. The platforms would be liable only if they did not act quickly to block access once they had learned of illegal uploads, the court said in…
Ed Sheeran Wins UK High Court Copyright Battle Over Shape of You Hit
Ed Sheeran’s 2017 hit Shape Of You does not infringe another artist’s copyright, a British High Court judge has ruled. At a trial last month, the singer and his Shape Of You co-writers, Snow Patrol’s John McDaid and producer Steven McCutcheon, faced accusations that they ripped off the 2015 song Oh Why by Sami Chokri…
US Copyright Office Rejects Request to Copyright Artwork Created by Artificial Intelligence
The United States Copyright Office’s review board has rejected a second request by Dr. Stephen Thaler, founder of Imagination Engines, to copyright a work of art that was created by an artificial intelligence (AI) system, concluding that it failed to have any “creative input or intervention from a human author.” The two-dimensional artwork is titled “A Recent Entrance to…
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