Warner Bros. Joins Studios’ AI Copyright Battle Against Midjourney — “In the complaint, Warner Bros. alleges that Midjourney willfully creates both still images and video of its characters, including Superman, Batman, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Tom and Jerry. The complaint also alleges that Midjourney recently eliminated guardrails that blocked users from creating videos that infringe on its IP.”
Mexico says works created by AI cannot be granted copyright — “The [Mexico Supreme Court]’s unanimous decision said that the Federal Copyright Law (LFDA) reserves authorship to humans, and that any creative invention generated exclusively by algorithms lacks a human author to whom moral rights can be attributed. According to the Supreme Court, automated systems do not possess the necessary qualities of creativity, originality and individuality that are considered human attributes for authorship.”
AI tech companies accused of illegally scraping copyrighted music in ICMP investigation — “The ICMP investigation claims that AI tools such as Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, Microsoft’s CoPilot, Meta’s Llama 3, and more have all ‘scraped’ music from licensed platforms such as YouTube and Spotify to train their models ‘without permission nor respect for laws’.”
World’s largest sports piracy site shut down by police — “The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) said on Wednesday it had teamed up with police in Egypt to close down Streameast, which had been visited more than 1.6 billion times in the past year. It allowed millions to access pirated streams of sports such as Premier League football matches, Formula One races and Major League Baseball games.”
TikTok Can’t Escape Trial in Copyright Suit Over Video Tech — “TikTok Inc. must face a jury trial next month in a lawsuit brought by a Chinese software company accusing the social media giant of copying video- and audio-editing technology. Judge Susan Illston ruled Monday that Beijing Meishe Network Technology Co. owns the copyrights to the code at issue, rejecting TikTok’s arguments that the rights to the software weren’t transferred from Meishe’s partial owner.”