TikTok Inc. accused a Chinese multimedia software company of lying for years to US federal courts about its ownership of video editing code in a dispute against the social media giant over the alleged theft of confidential technology. Beijing Meishe Network Technology Co. repeatedly deceived the court by submitting false sworn statements that it independently
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Walt Disney Co. and Universal Pictures have sued the AI image generator platform Midjourney for mass copyright infringement. Plagiarism is alleged to have been carried out on the intellectual property of the two giant animation studios. Midjourney has tools that allow its users to create images by simply giving text commands. The
A High Court in London has started hearing the lawsuit that Getty Images has filed against Stability AI, an AI-based text-to-image generator. Getty accuses Stability AI of unlawfully scraping millions of copyrighted images to train their LLMs (Large Language Models). Justice Joanna Smith, the British High Court judge hearing the case, described it as “highly
Rapper Eminem’s music publisher accused Meta Platforms Inc. of “rampantly” infringing his copyrights by offering his music to sync with photos and videos publicly streamed on its social media apps without permission. Meta had no license to store and distribute Eminem’s songs on its Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp platforms, according to a complaint filed by
A collection of customized Ford Mustangs featured in films including “Gone in 60 Seconds” isn’t eligible for copyright protection because it fails to qualify as a character, the Ninth Circuit affirmed. The collection, called “Eleanor,” is “more akin to a prop than a character,” according to the published opinion issued Tuesday by the US Court
President Donald Trump fired Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, the US Copyright Office confirmed in a statement Sunday. “On Saturday afternoon, May 10, 2025, the White House sent an email to Shira Perlmutter saying ‘your position as the Register of Copyrights and Director at the U.S. Copyright Office is terminated effective immediately,’” an office spokesperson
NS International Textiles (NSI), a South Korean company, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against fast-fashion purveyor Shein. The company filed the complaint at the end of March in a California court. The complaint alleges that Shein, and manufacturers or agents it uses, listed in the legal documents as “Doe” defendants because NSI lacks the
Attorneys for a cutting edge AI startup and authors suing it for copyright violations will appear in San Francisco federal court Thursday for an unusual hearing: an educational crash course for the judge overseeing their case. Judge William H. Alsup, who has overseen some of Silicon Valley’s biggest legal battles over the last two decades,
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