Warner Music settles copyright lawsuit with Udio, signs deal for AI music platform — “Warner Music Group (WMG) has settled a copyright infringement case with AI music startup Udio, the label announced on Wednesday. The two have also entered into a licensing deal for an AI music creation service that’s set to launch in 2026.”
AI Company Infringed Copyright, Thomson Reuters Argues — “Thomson Reuters is urging an appeals court to leave in place a ruling that artificial intelligence company Ross Intelligence infringed copyright by training its legal research service on material published by Westlaw. ‘Copying protectable expression to create a competing substitute isn’t innovation: it’s theft,’ Thomson Reuters argues in papers filed Wednesday with the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.”
Court Rules AI News Summaries May Infringe Copyright — “Cohere is one of the first major decisions to sustain a text-based output copying claim involving non-verbatim news summaries. For months, AI companies have pointed to Judge Stein’s dismissal of the CIR claims as proof that summary theories were DOA. Judge McMahon just showed the door is still very much open.”
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy — “Cloudflare provided a server for ‘two massive manga piracy sites that distribute over 4,000 manga titles without permission and rack up 300 million views a month,’ the publishers said. At issue in the lawsuit was whether Cloudflare was the main entity in charge of pirated manga distribution.”
The first major Generative AI and copyright case in Brazil: first impressions and challenges ahead — “Last August, Brazil became the stage for a new chapter in the controversies of Generative AI (Gen AI) and copyright – its first high-profile case, in which OpenAI faces a lawsuit from Folha de São Paulo (‘Folha’), a major newspaper company in the country. While this case may seem in many ways similar to the United States-based New York Times case, it also stands apart due to a number of peculiarities in Brazilian copyright law – as discussed below.”