Top Noteworthy Copyright Stories from March 2026 — “March 2026 was one of the busiest months in recent memory for the copyright world, with huge developments on critical copyright issues that all creators and copyright owners must know about.”
Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German children’s book — “The lawsuit, which was filed on Friday with a Munich court against OpenAI’s Ireland-based European subsidiary, states Penguin Random House’s legal team had prompted ChatGPT to write a story in the vein of Penguin author and illustrator Ingo Siegner’s Coconut the Little Dragon series.”
Publishers Back Concord Music Group’s AI Suit — “Anthropic’s actions, the brief argues, fail to meet the fair use doctrine in at least two ways: it is not transformative and its unauthorized training interferes with copyright holders who are signing licensing agreements with various tech companies.”
Training Data, Market Dilution, and the Elephant in the Room: Why the Three-Step Test Matters for Generative AI — “It is a curious feature of the genAI copyright debate that an instrument of binding international copyright law, one that limits the legislative discretion of every WTO member and governs the scope of every copyright exception in the EU and the US, has so rarely been subjected to sustained analysis in this context.”
Anthropic has ‘come to copyright’ epiphany after Claude code leak — “The code quickly found its way to GitHub and the curious were suddenly trawling the more than 2,000 files containing 512,000 lines of code.So developers did something very Anthropic – gobbled it up and began sharing it with others, often in reworked versions.Anthropic’s response was a ‘come to copyright’ moment. The company began issuing takedown notices to GitHub, using the Clinton era Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).”