Copyright

Microsoft CEO of AI: Your online content is 'freeware' fodder for training models

Unless you've got a lawyer, that is

AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 60

Snowflake breach snowballs as more victims, perps, come forward

Infosec in brief Also: The leaked Apple internal tools that weren't; TV pirate pirates convicted; and some critical vulns, too

Security24 Jun 2024 | 9

Adobe users just now getting upset over content scanning allowance in Terms of Use

Updated Update that triggered web rage didn't really change much – Photoshop slinger has always been able to scan your stuff

AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 54

Gentoo and NetBSD ban 'AI' code, but Debian doesn't – yet

Comment The problem isn't just that LLM-bot generated code is bad – it's where it came from

AI + ML18 May 2024 | 45

UK inertia on LLMs and copyright is 'de facto endorsement'

Lords committee slams government response to complaints from creators

AI + ML03 May 2024 | 29

MPs ask: Why is it so freakin' hard to get AI giants to pay copyright holders?

Agreement on consent and compensation has failed to materialize

AI + ML11 Apr 2024 | 58

US House mulls forcing AI makers to reveal use of copyrighted training data

Proposed law doesn't include any ban on use of such stuff to build models, mind you

AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 16

Bon Jovi, Billy Eilish, other musicians implore AI devs to think of humanity

Using copyrighted material to train models affects artists' livelihoods, says open letter

AI + ML03 Apr 2024 | 45

New York Times: OpenAI’s claim we 'hacked' its products both 'irrelevant' and 'false'

Media giant's counterfiling accuses AI darling of 'spin' in copyright infringement case

AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 3

Filing NeMo: Nvidia's AI framework hit with copyright lawsuit

Claims allegedly pirated content from Books3 dataset trawled by its models

AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 8

Microsoft: Copyright law didn't stop the VCR and shouldn't stop the LLM

Updated Lawyers argue content used to train LLMs does not 'supplant the market' for news

AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 38

OpenAI sued, again, for scraping and replicating news stories

The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet want damages and to have their content removed from models

AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 17

OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT

Super lab alleges 'deceptive prompts' that it happily processed - and may have tracked - weren't fair, so case should be dismissed

AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 26

Judge crosses out some claims by writers against OpenAI, lets them have another crack at it

Updated Scribes may have a point about unfair competition, direct copyright infringement

AI + ML14 Feb 2024 | 12

Thar be safe harbor: Reddit defeats third attempt to unmask digital pirates

First Amendment is a rule, not a guideline, says judge

Personal Tech13 Feb 2024 | 12

Universal Music accuses TikTok of 'intimidation' and threats to replace humans with AI

Made-in-China social network allegedly made lowball licensing offer and abused its platform power

AI + ML31 Jan 2024 | 16

Non-profit startup offers certifications for AI models that respect creators' rights

'Fairly Trained', founded by a former AI exec who quit over the issue, hopes consumer activism spurs adoption

AI + ML19 Jan 2024 | 5

GitHub Copilot copyright case narrowed but not neutered

Microsoft and OpenAI fail to shake off AI infringement allegations

AI + ML12 Jan 2024 | 13

OpenAI: 'Impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials'

As IEEE study shows super lab's neural nets can emit 'plagiaristic output'

AI + ML08 Jan 2024 | 125

What the AI copyright fights are truly about: Human labor versus endless machines

Kettle The real beef concerns our future to create and be rewarded for it

AI + ML03 Jan 2024 | 42

Science fiction writers imagine a future in which AI doesn’t abuse copyright – or their generosity

Association offers utopian vision of authors and model-makers bargaining over the price at which to opt-in for content scraping

AI + ML15 Dec 2023 | 67

Getty's image-scraping sueball against Stability AI will go to trial in the UK

Computer-generated image maker fails to quash case on its claimed home turf

AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 25

Author hopes to throw the book at OpenAI, Microsoft with copyright class action

Stop us if you've heard this one before

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 28

Microsoft dials back Bing after users manage to recreate Disney logo in fake AI-generated images

AI In Brief Plus: Amazon lays off hundreds of employees working on Alexa, and more

AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 38

AI copyright row deepens: Stability VP quits in protest over 'fair use' excuse

Refuses to sing from the corporate songbook on the legal grounds for training neural nets on people's work

AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 24

To pay or not to pay for AI's creative 'borrowing' – that is the question

One that Microsoft and Meta dodged during House of Lords committee

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 54

Google sues scammers peddling fake malware-riddled Bard chatbot download

Updated Plus: Chocolate Factory launches second lawsuit against false DMCA takedowns

Cyber-crime14 Nov 2023 | 13

FTC interrupts Copyright Office probe to flip out over potential AI fraud, abuse

Sir, this is a Wendy's

AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 22

Judge bins AI copyright lawsuit against DeviantArt, Midjourney – Stability still in the mix

Artists' lawyers vow to fight on

AI + ML31 Oct 2023 | 20

Digital Millennium Copyright Act celebrates a quarter century of takedown notices

Tracing DMCA's dubious legacy over 25 tech-turbulent years

Legal30 Oct 2023 | 8

Martin Goetz, recipient of the first software patent, logs off at 93

Obituary The industry owes him a debt of gratitude

Software23 Oct 2023 | 24

Bad Vibrations: Music publishers sue Anthropic AI for using copyrighted lyrics

You Can't Always scrape What You Want, even if the lyrics are Blowin' in the (digital) Wind

Legal20 Oct 2023 | 19

Google offers some copyright indemnity to users of its generative AI services

'If you are challenged, we will assume responsibility'

AI + ML12 Oct 2023 | 8

Getty delivers text-to-image service it says won't get you sued, may get you paid

Trained on its own image library that's clear of copyright complications

AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 16

Authors Guild sues OpenAI for using Game of Thrones and other novels to train ChatGPT

Class action alleges pirated novels were fed into binary brainbox

AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 54

Textbook publishers sue shadow library LibGen for copyright infringement

Yet another attempt at a permanent takedown – but will it stick?

Science18 Sep 2023 | 69

Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon and others sue OpenAI

Another would be copyright class action

AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 30

Microsoft to shield paid-up Copilot customers from any AI copyright brawls it starts

Tough luck, freeloaders: You're on your own

AI + ML07 Sep 2023 | 8

Arm wrestles assembly language guru's domains away citing trademark issues

Maria Markstedter spent years writing about chip biz's ISA, is a tad miffed by heavy-handed takedown tactics

Software31 Aug 2023 | 105

OpenAI urges court to throw out authors' claims in AI copyright battle

ChatGPT's prose harvesting protected by fair use, super-lab argues

AI + ML31 Aug 2023 | 42

Judge snuffs man's quest to have AI-created art protected by copyright

'A Recent Entrance to Paradise' lost

AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 20

Internet Archive sued by record labels as battle with book publishers intensifies

Music copyright bomb hits just as other court conflict leads to lending limits

Personal Tech14 Aug 2023 | 55

If you're going to train AI on our books, at least pay us, authors tell Big Tech

AI in brief Also: OpenAI enters deals with the Associated Press and Shutterstock to license content, and more

AI + ML18 Jul 2023 | 19

China sets AI rules that protect IP, people, the planet, and The Party

Brainboxes will need a license, but their makers may get to share digital public goods

AI + ML14 Jul 2023 | 13

Almost all classic US video games 'critically endangered'

Let us borrow titles digitally from libraries like we can books and movies, say 'puter historians

Personal Tech11 Jul 2023 | 28

Google says public data is fair game for training its AIs

Hey, we're just being honest, says web giant

AI + ML06 Jul 2023 | 31

Supreme Court says Genius' song lyric copying claim against Google wasn't smart

Website can't use state contract law to police copyrights it doesn't own

Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 47

Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI

Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does

Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 98

Whose line is it anyway, GitHub? Innovation, not litigation, should answer

Opinion If Jesus was my Copilot, what would he do?

AI + ML19 Jun 2023 | 43

Megaupload programmers cop a plea in New Zealand to avoid extradition

Kim Dotcom still fighting decade-long battle to avoid being shipped to US over copyright abuse

Legal16 Jun 2023 | 15

Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs

Opinion Intellectual property law crushed by zombie horde

Software05 Jun 2023 | 111

Meta threatens to pull all news from California rather than pay El Reg a penny

And, ahem, other publishers

Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 55

OpenAI's ChatGPT may face a copyright quagmire after 'memorizing' these books

This top-drawer AI tech has a major science-fiction habit

AI + ML03 May 2023 | 91

Publishers land killer punch on Internet Archive in book copyright court battle

Analysis Dot-org vows to appeal after judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out isn't fair use

Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 49

How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers

Updated Digital lending is only fine when we do it

Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 113

AI-generated art can be copyrighted, say US officials – with a catch

Some non-artificial intelligence needed

AI + ML16 Mar 2023 | 36