Rep. Darrell Issa introduced the American Copyright Protection Act, a site blocking bill that expands beyond earlier drafts to explicitly cover ISPs, DNS resolvers, and VPN providers. Copyright holders can petition courts to declare websites as foreign piracy sites and obtain blocking orders, with VPN providers now required to prevent U.S. users from accessing them, though implementation details are left to providers.
TelevisaUnivision obtained a federal court order in Florida targeting pirate IPTV services, securing a $32.7M default judgment against operators of Thunder TV, Sunset TV, and Tele Latino. The proposed permanent injunction is unusually broad, allowing TU to add new defendants and domains without court approval, and covers nearly 600 domains and 121 intermediaries including major companies like GoDaddy, Cloudflare, and GitHub.
Unsealed court documents in a copyright infringement lawsuit reveal that OpenAI executives acknowledged training AI models on illegally obtained copyrighted books and anticipated that AI-generated content would displace human authors. Internal communications show company officials knowingly proceeded despite concerns from writers, with one executive stating their goal was to create machines that would supplant human authors. Microsoft was also aware of OpenAI's use of pirated content sources and later deleted those files.
A lawyer and author who pioneered AI copyright lawsuits argues that sci-fi catastrophe scenarios distract from realistic AI policy. While proposing a global AI ban sounds appealing, it faces practical obstacles: existing laws already address malicious software but lack enforcement, open-weight models pose threats regardless of research halts, and trillions in economic investment make a coordinated global ban politically unfeasible.
Sony Music and Universal Music Group filed a 45-page lawsuit against AI music-generation startup Suno, alleging its new v6 model still infringes copyrighted works despite licensing deals with other labels, arguing that training new models on outputs from infringing models constitutes copyright infringement laundering.
An article argues that AI language models are undermining the open-source software ecosystem by consuming copyrighted code without license compliance, breaking the social contract that enabled internet infrastructure. The author warns this shift from knowledge-sharing to liability will concentrate wealth and power while stifling future innovation.
Unsealed court documents from the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal communications showing the companies were aware they were creating a 'doom loop' that would damage the web, characterized their data scraping as 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' and acknowledged their models memorize and regurgitate copyrighted content verbatim despite knowing this violates fair use principles.
Spain's Intellectual Property Commission ordered the blocking of Archive.today and its mirror domains, redirecting Spanish users to a government page that accuses them of illegally facilitating access to copyright-protected content. The blocking page warns users they are contributing to criminal activity and risking their security.
Independent author Tamra Westberry discovered AI-generated books falsely attributed to her on Amazon, featuring her character names and cover designs. The phenomenon of parasitic AI-generated works appearing under established authors' names is widespread across Amazon and other platforms, with authors having little recourse as AI models trained on pirated books are used to mass-produce content that exploits existing fan bases.
Unsealed court documents from The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal admissions that AI training practices constitute theft and pose existential threats to publishers. Microsoft executives acknowledged that their Copilot product caused New York Times traffic to drop 93%, and internal communications show concern about harming content creators whose work trained the models. The case raises questions about whether AI companies' unlicensed use of copyrighted material qualifies as fair use.
A developer questions how to ethically submit a patch for a FOSS project when they discover similar AI-generated code already exists in an upstream repository but was never merged. The core challenge is implementing a trivial feature in a substantially different way to avoid appearance of deriving from the LLM-generated commit.
Microsoft and OpenAI executives admitted in sealed court documents unsealed Thursday that large language models were trained on stolen content and have created a 'doom loop' destroying the web and content creators' businesses. The New York Times copyright lawsuit filing reveals internal statements from both companies acknowledging that LLMs cannibalize traffic from their sources, threaten human labor, and represent an existential risk to media companies and creators.
US Rep. Darrell Issa proposed legislation requiring ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block foreign piracy websites through judicial orders, citing concerns about the speed of current copyright enforcement. The Motion Picture Association has sought such site-blocking measures, but advocacy groups warn the bill would create a broad censorship regime and harm legitimate businesses.
Unsealed court documents from The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal admissions that AI training practices constituted theft and posed existential threats to publishers. Microsoft executives acknowledged bypassing paywalls, mass scraping content, and stripping copyright notices, while data showed their Copilot product reduced Times traffic by up to 93%, directly harming the original content creators' business.
Belgium's court upheld a DNS blocking order requiring Cloudflare, Google, and Cisco to stop resolving pirate streaming domains, despite challenges from the companies. The blocking targets DAZN sports content and activates 90 minutes before live matches, with fines up to €100,000 per day of broadcast. Cisco's OpenDNS had previously exited Belgium but may face renewed pressure following the court's August 20 ruling.
Article examines whether code generated by large language models is copyrightable and who owns the copyright, exploring how copyright law and licensing frameworks apply to LLM-assisted software development and Free Software contributions.
Denuvo GmbH filed a lawsuit against anonymous cracker 'voices38' in U.S. District Court for bypassing its Anti-Tamper DRM on 26 games, citing DMCA anti-circumvention violations. The case relies on copyright law provisions rather than traditional infringement claims, as Denuvo seeks to protect its business model licensing protection to game publishers.
Negativland, an experimental multimedia collective founded in 1980, pioneered the practice of culture jamming by blending found and original audio material across albums, performances, and radio broadcasts. After a 1991 copyright lawsuit by U2, the band became advocates for fair use and artistic freedom, inspiring Hosler's 140+ lectures on art and copyright law worldwide.
Australia's attorney-general's department proposed an opt-out copyright framework allowing AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to train models on online content without payment if they secure deals with sufficient rights holders, aiming to resolve gridlock in copyright reform and attract AI investment while balancing creator protections.
Publishers suing Meta over alleged pirated book use in AI training sought subpoenas of OpenAI and Anthropic's torrent client records to challenge Meta's defense that uploading was an unavoidable BitTorrent protocol feature. A federal magistrate judge sided with OpenAI and Anthropic, ruling their torrent logs irrelevant and that Meta's fair use defense should be tested by examining BitTorrent client technology itself.