Send a letter to your Congressional Representatives to continue to encourage them to stand up for creators. copyrightalliance.org/get-involved...

North Carolina initially agreed in 2013 to stop the copyright violations & pay Allen $15,000 for unauthorized use. Then, in 2015, North Carolina passed “Blackbeard’s Law,” which allowed state agencies to freely use materials related to shipwrecks in their possession. petapixel.com/2026/01/29/p...

COPYRIGHT—Sovereign immunity will have to wait another day. Allen discovered that his work had been uploaded to an NC-operated YouTube channel and onto other social media platforms. Two years later, the State formally commandeered the footage for itself.. www.vitallaw.com/news/copyrig....

The original copyright infringement lawsuit was filed in 2023 by a group of illustrators and writers. Now Cengage & the trade publisher Hachette Book Group, are asking to enter the case to represent all publishers whose rights have also infringed by Google. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

A U.S. District Judge refused to throw out three of the publisher’s copyright infringement claims which accused OpenAI of distributing copies of its copyrighted works with the copyright management information removed, in violation of the DMCA. www.courthousenews.com/judge-advanc...

A new bill that is being proposed wants to make it less expensive for visual artists to protect their work. Called the Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act of 2025 (VACRA), it wants to reduce fees associated with copyright protection. petapixel.com/2025/12/17/p...

Disney & OpenAI are affirming a shared commitment to the responsible use of AI that protects user safety & the rights of creators. The companies will advance human-centered AI that respects the creative industries & expands what is possible for storytelling. thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-opena...

AI models are built out of content & data these companies take without getting permission, without offering compensation to all the humans whose writing & ideas & videos & voices & thoughts & labor & time & perspective go into making these products valuable. journal.hitrecord.org/p/ai-compani...

The coalition argues Cox was sent numerous notices of specific IP addresses repeatedly violating music copyrights and that Cox's failure to terminate those IP addresses from internet access means that Cox should face the music. www.npr.org/2025/12/01/n...

The AI entertainment landscape is starting to shift, with deals springing up between formerly adversarial AI companies and entertainment corporations, especially in the music space. www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...

"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. www.mediapost.com/publications...

WMG said that the “next-generation music creation, listening, and discovery platform” will be powered by generative AI models trained on licensed and authorized music. techcrunch.com/2025/11/19/w...

The platforms not only made searching for infringing copies impossible, but they often stalled or simply stopped responding to DMCA takedowns. Stolen videos would stay up for months, getting tens of millions of views while my YouTube originals faltered. copyrightalliance.org/storm-chaser...

Judge Colleen McMahon held that “substitutive summaries”—non-verbatim outputs that mirror the expressive structure and journalistic storytelling choices of the originals—may plausibly infringe copyright. That was enough to let the claims move forward. copyrightlately.com/court-rules-...

Zlozower claimed the museum neither licensed the photo nor provided credit or a source when exhibiting the image of the band in the exhibit about guitars. petapixel.com/2025/11/13/p...

Videographer Rick Allen says North Carolina illegally copied his work without permission or payment. More than a decade later, he’s still trying to get paid. www.cityviewnc.com/stories/avas...

The court found that both the memorisation in the language models and the reproduction of the song lyrics in the chatbot's outputs constitute infringements of copyright exploitation rights, according to a statement on the ruling. www.reuters.com/world/german...

The family of the American artist Norman Rockwell has called upon federal agencies to stop using the artist’s work in content promoting the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies. rehs.com/eng/2025/11/...

There’s a reason that copyright law has never embraced an opt-out system and that’s because opt-out systems do not work. There are many legal, technical, operational, and policy problems and inefficiencies with an opt-out system. copyrightalliance.org/why-opt-out-...

According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750. futurism.com/artificial-i...

There’s a principle that keeps a free market free: You can’t take what isn’t yours and sell it as your own. Yet, that is precisely what some of the most prominent players in artificial intelligence are doing. dcjournal.com/ais-free-rid...

“These AI-generated synthetic imitations involuntarily resurrect iconic music performers, sports figures and actors without consent, context, or compensation—reducing cultural heritage to algorithmic spectacle and gratuitous ridicule,” it blasts. musically.com/2025/10/28/m...

The question isn't whether AI will transform our world—it already is. The question is whether we'll learn from our mistakes. Or having not learned, we are destined to repeat them. www.digitalcitizensalliance.org/news/press-r...

[Anthropic] markets itself as providing ethical AI, yet it trained its models using books stolen from piracy websites. When challenged in court, it agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy the pirated materials without admitting wrongdoing. ipwatchdog.com/2025/10/15/a...

OpenAI's AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Meta wants access to the photos on Facebook users’ smartphone camera rolls. The privacy concerns are obvious and there are important considerations about how these photos may be used to train AI. petapixel.com/2025/10/20/m...

“That doesn’t mean that the state then has free license to violate due process by infringing copyrights freely. Just because we can’t sue them doesn’t mean it’s right to infringe, doesn’t mean it’s right to steal property.” www.courthousenews.com/fourth-circu...

Kenny Loggins has spoken out against Donald Trump using his song “Danger Zone” in a bizarre AI video of the president in a fighter jet bombing No Kings protesters with what appears to be fecal matter. variety.com/2025/music/n...

Copyright should not be treated as a barrier to U.S. strength in AI. It is the foundation of that strength.

Apple “continues to retain private AI training-data, including pirated books,” to train future models without compensating rightsholders or seeking their consent, the professors said. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/apple...

When an ALI project is so riddled with disagreements that a substantial number of participants feel the need to resign and ask that their names be removed from the final product, it calls into question the legitimacy of the project. legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/copyright-bl...

Under copyright law, rightsholders can sue and obtain statutory damages for individual acts of infringement — regardless of whether the infringer offers an opt-out or not. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Midjourney has become a vending machine for WB content, selling a commercial service powered by AI that was developed using infringing copies of WB works and then allows users to reproduce or download infringing images or videos. hughstephensblog.net/2025/10/07/w...

Reminds me of that old throwaway joke commonly used at roasts: "If you wanted a eulogy, you should have done something about it."

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Facing backlash, OpenAI reverses course: rightsholders will decide whether their copyrighted characters can be generated by the Sora 2 video app, with revenue sharing for those who opt in. copyrightlately.com/openai-backt...

In the studios’ new cases, the tools’ mimicking copyrighted material “appears to be a feature rather than a bug.” news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/disne...

The creative economy is one of America’s most valuable exports. Hollywood movies dominate box offices from Seoul to São Paulo, American music and streaming platforms set global tastes, and U.S. publishing supplies the backbone of education worldwide. thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thehill....

The acting guild believes “creativity is, and should remain, human-centered” and “is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.” variety.com/2025/film/ne...

The court reportedly was skeptical that OpenAI can escape liability by shifting the responsibility to users of ChatGPT who seek and obtain the outputs of song lyrics. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/10/01/m...

The tool makes it easy to spin short, polished videos from text prompts or images, complete with a social-media-style feed. But...unless rights holders affirmatively opt out, their characters may appear in Sora-generated clips. copyrightlately.com/new-sora-ai-...

The opt-out process for the new version of Sora means that movie studios and other intellectual property owners would have to explicitly ask OpenAI not to include their copyright material in videos the tool creates. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

The amended complaint against Suno maintains that the AI music startup fed “decades worth of the world’s most popular sound recordings” into its AI models without authorization from record companies. www.theverge.com/news/782448/...

The United States has a long history of leading the world in innovation and creativity. This leadership is the result of, and is dependent on, established and strong U.S. intellectual property laws. copyrightalliance.org/americas-cop...

The Trump administration has said it intends to audit exhibitions and holdings at eight Smithsonian Institution museums to determine whether they align with the "President's directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive [and] partisan narratives.” www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...

The deal is simultaneously groundbreaking and trivial, a paradox that reveals how artificial intelligence has fundamentally altered the economics of copyright infringement. copyrightlately.com/anthropic-se...

The Authors Guild exists to support working writers. Learn what we're doing about AI: authorsguild.org/advocacy/art... Join us to stop book banning: authorsguild.org/resource/sto... authorsguild.org/advocacy/

The project presents a problem for recording companies and music publishers, as much of the music remains under copyright and continues to be commercially exploited. www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/labels-settl...

The “siege” they fear is a figment of their own imagination. Site blocking isn’t some theoretical concept where we are left to predict what might happen if deployed. It’s been tried and tested globally for over a decade and passed with flying colors. copyrightalliance.org/flawed-case-...

“MiniMax operates Hailuo AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence image and video generating service that pirates and plunders Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works on a massive scale,” the companies said in the lawsuit, filed Tuesday. variety.com/2025/digital...