The independent label and publishing company Artist Partner Group (APG) sued Create Music Group on Tuesday (Jan. 21), accusing the company of violating copyrights by uploading and monetizing songs it didn’t actually own. APG also accused Create of interfering with its artists’ contracts. “Create’s ‘business model’ is to steal the intellectual property and contractual rights
OpenAI has responded in California federal court to allegations that it misused the work of authors including Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates and comedian Sarah Silverman to train its artificial-intelligence language model. The Microsoft-backed AI company said in an answer to the complaints on Tuesday that it makes fair use of copyrighted content to teach models
Authors Sue Anthropic for Misuse of Copyrighted Material in AI Training Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is facing a class-action lawsuit in California federal court, filed by three authors who allege that their books, along with hundreds of thousands of others, were misused to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude. The complaint, lodged on Monday by writers
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Kim Dotcom, founder of the once wildly popular file-sharing website Megaupload, lost a 12-year fight this week to halt his deportation from New Zealand to the U.S. on charges of copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering. New Zealand’s Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith divulged Friday that he had decided Dotcom should
A real estate photographer has sued the creator of a wildly popular media site that posts about distinctive properties, saying the creator used two of her photographs without her permission. Veteran photographer Jennnifer Bouma, of Washington State, has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Zillow Gone Wild. She took the photos in 2021 and copyrighted