#copyright-infringement

#copyright-infringement

"Character.ai is freeriding off the goodwill of Disney's famous marks and brands, and blatantly infringing Disney's copyrights," a Disney lawyer wrote in the cease-and-esist letter. "Even worse, Character.ai's infringing chatbots are known, in some cases, to be sexually exploitive and otherwise harmful and dangerous to children, offending Disney's consumers and extraordinarily damaging Disney's reputation and goodwill."

The CoStar companies are Delaware corporations based in Virginia, have an office in Seattle, and have shown no connection with this District. The Zillow Terms of Use, to which CoStar is subject, provide for exclusive venue in Washington. CoStar presumably chose this forum to avoid unfavorable Ninth Circuit law, a tactic that should not be given weight, the letter, filed on Monday, states.

For several months now, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been posting ghoulish social media videos celebrating the agency's ramped-up immigration raid efforts. For its latest propaganda, ICE is appealing to a younger audience by setting a video of arrests to the Pokémon anime theme song. Not only was the clip posted to the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) X/Twitter, but it was also uploaded to the official White House TikTok account.

"This landmark settlement far surpasses any other known copyright recovery," said plaintiffs' attorney Justin Nelson. "It is the first of its kind in the AI era."

Her vibrant 2D illustrations appear daily alongside the The New York Times' Strands Sidekick feature and have also featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Anorak Magazine. Celine made a post on Instagram showing items of clothing sold by Urban Revivo that appear to feature images heavily inspired by her own illustrations. Specifically, designers appeared to have taken liberal inspiration from the artist's illustrations of a heart and a bird with skeletons way back in 2021.

Misshapen eyes and hands with too many fingers once made AI-generated art easy to spot. Now, as the technology advances, it's becoming harder to tell human work from machine-made creations. With some fearing the replacement of human creatives, AI-generated art has plenty of detractors. "Algorithm aversion," the bias against AI-created work, seems to only be growing, and just 20% of U.S. adults think AI will have a positive impact on arts and entertainment.

Trump has warned tariffs on countries imposing digital taxes on US tech firms. He said measures such as the UK's digital services tax and similar rules in France, Italy and Spain discriminate against companies like Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple. Trump said he will add tariffs on exports and restrict technology sales if those policies stay in place.

British comedian Rhys James announced that ahead of the release of his memoir, he found a plethora of AI versions circulating on Amazon.

Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson allege that Anthropic downloaded up to seven million copyrighted works unlawfully, building a multibillion-dollar business on stolen books.

Rimini Street has entered into a confidential settlement agreement with Oracle, which may resolve their long-standing legal dispute dating back to 2010.

Adalytics identified over 9,000 alleged copyright violations on YouTube, including full-length Hollywood films, Netflix exclusives, and popular television shows, accumulating 250 million views.

The copies used to train specific LLMs were justified as fair use. Every factor but the nature of the copyrighted work favors this result. The technology at issue was among the most transformative many of us will see in our lifetimes.

Lululemon takes issue with a number of Costco products that it says are intended to mimic its popular designs, including the $128 Define jacket and $118 Scuba oversize half-zip hoodie.

Cox Communications was sued by record companies for copyright infringement, focusing on when internet providers can be held liable for user piracy.

"The average publisher is trying to compete against a $300 billion company [OpenAI]. It's hard to invest in the level of 'bot-walling' or 'bot prevention technology..."

This is my poem, written in velvet cloth, another carved in wood, hung inside a commercial white cube space, renamed, rebranded, and resold at an enormous price without ever telling me... This is not conceptual borrowing. This is theft.