By , January 24, 2025.

$500m-valued Suno hit with new copyright lawsuit from Germany’s GEMA — “GEMA represents the copyrights of around 95,000 members in Germany (composers, lyricists, music publishers) as well as over two million rightsholders worldwide. GEMA accuses the AI company of ‘processing protected recordings of world-famous songs’ without permission or remuneration. According to GEMA, the AI tool generates audio content ‘that is confusingly similar to the original songs.'”

Copyright in Motion: Ninth Circuit Recognizes Kinetic Sculptures as Eligible for Copyright Protection — “Aritzia argued that because copyright law only protects works that are ‘fixed in any tangible medium of expression’ Tangle’s sculptures could be the subject of a valid copyright only once they were ‘fixed’ in specific poses. The Ninth Circuit disagreed. … The fact that Tangle’s sculptures were designed to be arranged into various poses did not mean that they were, per se, not ‘fixed’ for copyright purposes. The court compared Tangle’s sculptures to other forms of expression involving motion, such as dance, movies, and music, all of which are protected under copyright law despite their lack of stasis.”

Delhi HC lacks jurisdiction to hear copyright suit: Open AI — “The company pointed out that it doesn’t have any permanent establishment in India and that its servers are outside the country. Last year, the news agency filed the suit against the tech firm, alleging it used ANI’s content without permission to train ChatGPT.”

Writers! Do You Know your Drafts on MS Word are being Scooped by Microsoft to Build its AI Algorithm? But You Can Stop This From Happening (Read On). — “Although I post my blog content on WordPress, I usually use MS Word to draft my content initially. I am used to it, and it is easy to use. Little did I know that, according to the blogsite and forum nixCraft, Microsoft recently (September Privacy update) switched on a feature that allows them to ingest everything you write on Word to help develop their AI Algorithm, called Copilot.”

AI Briefing: Copyright battles bring Meta and OpenAI datasets under the microscope — “Court documents unsealed in an AI copyright case against Meta raised new questions about the use of e-books from a book piracy site Library Genesis (LibGen). They also raise new questions about how much CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta execs knew about Meta teams’ use of pirated content to help train its Llama models.”