Silicon Valley can pay for copyright to train AI. It just doesn’t want to — “Anthropic is now valued at $US380 billion. OpenAI at $US300 billion. Alphabet, Google’s parent company at over $US4 trillion. These companies have spent billions on data centres, hundreds of millions on engineers, and astonishing sums on computational infrastructure. The one input they have consistently sought to acquire for free is the creative content that makes their models worth using. Billions for concrete and silicon. Nothing for the songwriters, authors, artists and journalists who are the essential ingredient.”
Venue for Creators’ Small Copyright Claims Stirs Efficacy Debate — “‘The biggest question was, “If we build it, will they come?” A fair number of naysayers said everyone is going to opt out,’ Charlesworth said. Without a system to address small claims, copyright ‘becomes a hollow right for a lot of creators’ for whom litigation is impractical, she said, and the lean CCB is ‘one of the most efficient ways you could possibly do it. As a government entity it’s not even a drop in the bucket.'”
9th Circuit Says No Copyright in Tracy Anderson, Megan Roup Workout Battle — “In the latest chapter of a closely-watched fitness industry feud, a federal appeals court handed Megan Roup a decisive victory in her copyright battle with rival trainer Tracy Anderson, affirming the Anderson dance-cardio routines at issue are not protectable under federal copyright law.”
Saudi Arabia’s new Copyright Law: key changes and implications — “The new Copyright Law establishes a comprehensive legal framework for the protection of copyright in the Kingdom. The new law will come into force on 1 August 2026, and the implementing regulations to the new law should be issued by such date.”
Provider’s Degree of Control Affects DMCA Safe Harbor — “The Second Circuit found triable issues of fact, however, on two critical safe harbor elements under § 512(c)(1). The first issue was whether the storage was ‘at the direction of the user.’ The Court stated that the factfinder must determine whether Shutterstock’s review of uploaded material involved ‘substantive and discretionary control’ over what appears on the platform, including the level of aesthetic or editorial judgment applied when deciding which images to accept.”