British pop superstars Dua Lipa, Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney have urged the Prime Minister to protect copyright law and back a key amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill Dua Lipa is among the celebrities who have signed a letter to the Prime Minister(Image: PA Archive/PA Images) Dua Lipa, Sir Elton
Novex Communications Private Limited has secured a significant victory in the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, presided over by Hon’ble Justice Manish Pitale, in a music copyright case against the National Sports Club of India. The court has ordered NSCI to obtain proper licenses before playing copyrighted music and to ensure that third-party operators
Tech secretary rows back on Data Bill rights for AI companies The UK government is rethinking proposals to allow AI companies to train models on copyrighted work without permission. The government is rethinking its controversial new copyright proposals, which would enable AI companies to use copyrighted material to train models without copyright holders’ permission. Those
Amit Sibal, arguing on behalf of OpenAI, said that the copyright protection of news is narrow. OpenAI was responding to the Delhi High Court’s query on whether ANI’s data was being used to generate ChatGPT responses, thereby violating the copyrights of its news. The news agency ANI had sued OpenAI, alleging that the company used
ChatGPT login and chatbot. Picture: Shutterstock The UK Government’s proposal to allow AI companies to automatically train their models on online content unless the rightsholder specifically opts out has been described as “unworkable”. A range of responses to the Government consultation on its proposed change to the existing copyright regime have been published, with many
Image: pichetw/Envato Elements Barring companies like OpenAI, Google, and Meta from training AI on copyrighted material in the UK may undermine model quality and economic impact, policy experts warn. They say that it will lead to bias in model outputs, undermining their effectiveness, while rightsholders are unlikely to receive the level of compensation they anticipate.
Earlier this year, the Copyright Office opened a notice of inquiry (NOI) into U.S. performing rights organizations (PROs) – asking the music industry, venues and broadcasters that hold performance licenses to weigh in on whether or not they should face any new reform. Triggered by a so-called “proliferation” of new PROs in the market, and
Mariah Carey has won a federal court ruling dismissing a copyright lawsuit over her perennial holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas is You” – a decision that cited an expert who said the songs mostly just shared “Christmas song clichés.” In a ruling issued Wednesday, Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani rejected allegations from songwriter Vince
Dua Lipa won a ruling Thursday (March 27) dismissing a copyright lawsuit claiming she copied her smash hit song “Levitating” from two different decades-old songs. The case, filed in 2022 by songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, accused Lipa of ripping off their 1979 song “Wiggle and Giggle All Night” and their 1980 song
This is a scene from the Hallyu (Korean Wave) convention KCON LA in Los Angeles that ran from July 26-28, 2024. (CJ ENM) By Gil Kyuyoung The country’s copyright trade last year posted a surplus thanks to the popularity of Hallyu (Korean Wave) content. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on March 19 said