The Coca-Cola Christmas ad, made with AI, used at least eight AI models known to be trained on copyrighted work without permission. This is a huge middle finger to the artists whose work these models exploit, at scale, for huge commercial gain.

New AI copyright lawsuit just landed - Danish music rights org Koda sues Suno for what it calls “the biggest theft in music history”. Danish rights holders, it seems - like many others around the world - have had enough. x.com/ednewtonrex/...

Universal Music have settled their lawsuit with Udio. From the little that is known about the settlement, this looks like a big win for creatives: 🧵 1/5

A big tech lobbying group has asked Trump to issue an Executive Order telling the DOJ to intervene in AI copyright lawsuits in favor of AI companies. Astonishingly brazen request. Though IMO suggests AI companies are v worried they will lose in court. progresschamber.org/resources/wh...

That thing where you read a headline with hope and optimism that Starmer’s government has made a good policy decision only to learn that the headline is about the Australian Labour party instead.

If only this were @teamlabouruk.bsky.social …

Looking at you, UK government...

In huge positive news, the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their country’s creatives to AI companies for free 🙌 They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law. Other governments should do the same! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This Machines Like Us episode with @taylorowen.bsky.social and @ednewtonrex.bsky.social is excellent. The public, once again, is correct and ahead of the Carney government: According to a new poll by Leger, 85% of Canadians want government regulation for “AI”, not its rapid acceleration.

The UK government hasn't ruled out weakening copyright law in low-regulation zones to benefit AI companies. They say they "intend" IP rights to be a red line for these zones. But they are "seeking views" on this. Please make your views known! www.gov.uk/government/c...

New lawsuit against AI music company Suno just landed - brought by a group of independent musicians. The same group of musicians who also sued Udio this week. www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/...

💥 Independent musicians just filed another copyright lawsuit against AI music company Udio. It's notable that, while Udio says its mission is "to empower artists of all kinds to create extraordinary music", many of those artists are suing them. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/wp-content/u...

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

More good news on AI & copyright: OpenAI reportedly on track to lose in German copyright case over song lyrics. aifray.com/breaking-ope...

Genuinely emotional reading this. $1.5 billion to authors, in the biggest copyright settlement in history. Big tech is not above the law. This is just the start. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

When you run a poll and find that the public is concerned about AI, it takes crazy levels of AI boosterism to conclude that the public is wrong and the govt must educate them. Perhaps… the public is right. Politicians should listen to the public, not the Larry Ellison-funded Tony Blair Institute.

Adviser to UK minister claimed AI firms would never have to compensate creatives

It is very worrying that Kendall is bringing in an adviser who has - said AI companies will never compensate creatives - echoed big tech’s calls for copyright reform Why is this government so set on throwing creatives under the bus to benefit AI companies? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The UK government’s new tech adviser has endorsed changing copyright law to give AI companies free access to copyrighted work, with no opt-out for creators. Labour is the party of big tech.

It is concerning to hear that Kirsty Innes has been brought in as a special adviser at DSIT, given her previous comments on AI & copyright. (Her February thread on AI & copyright, and my response, in screenshots ⬇️) 🧵 1/3

The model trainer’s dilemma is a specific instance of the prisoner’s dilemma, and it’s everywhere in AI right now. AI companies are offering people bad deals to help train their own replacements. These people would collectively be better off if they resisted… 🧵 1/6

AI company CEOs say they want to solve humanity’s hardest problems, and then are like ‘try our micro blueberry model to generate images of yourself as anime lol, by the way it’s $20/month’

I went to see Michael Trazzi on day 4 of his hunger strike at Google DeepMind There’s the beginnings of a broad alliance taking shape - different groups, voicing different concerns about AI, but all aligned in a belief that AI companies must stop racing ahead and ignoring the harm they are causing.

The $1.5 billion settlement in the Anthropic copyright lawsuit is historic - the biggest ever copyright case payout, $3k each for 500,000 authors. 🧵 1/3

So. Farewell Then Peter Kyle. You said Copyright law was Uncertain. And then You were uncertain About what You had said. You are certainly No longer Technology minister. EJ Thribb

It is impossible to miss the fact that the AI backlash grows stronger every day. As teenagers die, young people find it harder to find jobs, creatives lose work & royalties, slop fills the airwaves, students cheat, we lose the ability to tell what's real, execs cut headcount... 🧵 1/3

I'm very grateful to be included in the TIME100 AI of 2025. I want to give a shoutout to the many, many people fighting for AI companies to treat creators fairly. It makes a difference, and the public is with you. Keep up the fight. time.com/collections/...

Big news - Anthropic agrees to settle with authors in copyright lawsuit. As tech bros like to say, ‘we’re only just getting started’. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

New research from Stanford shows that generative AI is already making it harder for young people to find jobs. - In jobs with high exposure to automation by AI, early-career workers have experienced a 13% relative decline in employment. Jobs with lower exposure to automation are unaffected. 🧵 1/3

Huge amounts of money are being spent lobbying to deregulate AI. This is because AI companies & VCs know the public overwhelmingly supports AI regulation. Politicians must resist the money and side with the public. www.wsj.com/politics/sil...

Deal to get Napster for whole of UK discussed by Napster boss and minister www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

AI won’t steal your work. Someone building an AI company will steal your work.

The UK government's 'Sovereign AI Unit' has partnerships with 4 companies. All are North American. All are being sued for alleged copyright infringement. It is beyond astonishing that this is who the government saw fit to partner with. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Senators Hawley & Blumenthal are introducing a bill that would definitively make it illegal to train AI on copyrighted works without permission. 🧵 1/2 www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...

“Let’s just grab all the books we can for AI training, what could possibly go wro-” chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/07/17/a...

🚨 If you're any sort of creative in the UK, get in touch with the organisations that represent you and ask what they are suggesting the government do about AI & copyright. There are some orgs who are meant to represent creators who are lobbying for their own interests. 🧵 1/4

Here is the list of creators' representatives the UK government included in their first working group on AI & copyright today. It is mostly big media organisations - there is virtually no representation of smaller and independent creatives. 🧵 1/3

Incredibly important report on AI training & copyright released today by the European Commission. It gets lots right, slamming the idea that creators should be required to opt-out of having their works used for free by AI companies. It says: - Generative AI must be based on opt-in consent 🧵 1/n

More evidence today that the UK government values American AI companies more highly than the rights of British creators. www.gov.uk/government/n... 🧵 1/n

JSTOR launched an AI reading assistant that seems to be powered by OpenAI’s models, which are trained on writers’ work without permission. @jstor.bsky.social can you confirm?

🚨 Another AI fair use ruling today, and this one is *much* better for creators. 🚨 tl;dr: The judge said "In many circumstances it will be illegal to copy copyright-protected works to train generative AI models without permission." 🧵 1/n

“The creative industries represent much of the best of what the UK and indeed humanity does. The idea of handing over its output for free is abhorrent.” —Martin Wolf

we need an AI-free alternative to youtube

On a recent panel, we were asked whether AI companies, if they replace jobs with AGI, will distribute their profits among the public, giving us all more time to be creative. I said no: these companies are already exploiting people. Why would that change? My full response:

There are now class action lawsuits against Suno & Udio. Independent musicians can join them here ⬇️ www.topmusicattorney.com/indieailawsuit

The NHS comparison is laughable. Medicine isn't made generally available before the foundations are regulated. The Pandora's box approach was because they knew it wouldn't fly, the only way to "secure" it is by placing all chips on it before the law has time to even react.

The UK government’s own use of exploitative AI models shows they have no intention of protecting creators. Per the Guardian today, the government responded to my comments by saying their use of these models doesn’t mean they can’t regulate them. But of course it does. 🧵 1/2

Unions in Quebec representing 25,000 creatives are demanding that lawmakers treat creators fairly with respect to generative AI. Demands include: - No copyright exceptions for gen AI training - Full data transparency - Labelling of AI content 🙌 lartesthumain.com/en/

🔥 It's happening! Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney and they cited mine and Gary Marcus' work exposing their infringement in their filing. LET'S GO! 🔥

Disney has joined the fight against AI’s theft of creative work, suing Midjourney & calling it “a bottomless pit of plagiarism”. Midjourney engineers once told me their actions were justified because art is ‘ossified’. End the plagiarism machine. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/b...