Transatlantic Comments on the Anthropic AI Settlement — “Judge Alsup’s preliminary approval at the US District Court of the Northern District of California sees Anthropic paying US$1.5 billion to authors and publishers of close to half-a-million books that Anthropic downloaded from notorious pirate sites to feed its AI models. The San Francisco-based Anthropic is valued at $183 billion—a figure five times larger than the aggregate revenue of the American publishing market in 2024.”
Five Copyright Office Resources You May Not Know Exist — “The U.S. Copyright Office provides a wide range of resources to support creators, educators, and other copyright users, but some of the most valuable tools can fly under the radar. Here are five lesser-known Office resources that can help you better understand, register, and manage your creative works.”
Setting the Record Straight About America’s Copyright and AI Policy — “With U.S. policymakers and judges considering the very important question of how copyright law applies in the context of AI, especially AI training, there’s been an unfortunate deluge of falsehoods and myths spread by AI developers and others in a poor attempt to get policymakers and courts to grant them special copyright treatment for AI.”
Record labels claim AI generator Suno illegally ripped their songs from YouTube — “The updated lawsuit alleges that Suno ’employed code to access, extract, copy, and download’ copyrighted works from Universal, Sony, and Warner, and violated YouTube’s terms of service by circumventing the platform’s ‘rolling cipher’ encryption.”
‘Real Love’ copyright claim rejected — The breakbeat from the Honey Dripper’s 1973 track “Impeach the President” is instantly recognizable and has been sampled in hundreds of songs since its release. Read the court ruling this week dismissing a claim at the pleadings stage against Universal Music Publishing that its use in the Mary J. Blige track “Real Love” was not infringing.