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Without effective copyright protections, there is a grave risk that these organizations will no longer be able to produce the high-quality codes and standards that the public and lawmakers have come to rely on.
Denying the motion to add the contributory infringement claim could potentially harm the interests of the proposed class members. If the class action proceeded without the claim, members would be barred from ever raising it, even if the Entrepreneur Media case ruling went against Meta.
"There's a tension in the design of the book that I was exploring, between making it feel super contemporary and colorful, and leaning into more traditional aesthetics of archives and historical content. I wanted to honor both," says Michele. "Copyright law can also be kind of intimidating, so I wanted to use the design of the book to make the content more approachable and engaging."
ByteDance has pledged to tighten controls around its AI video generator, Seedance, after facing legal threats from Disney and growing criticism from other Hollywood studios over alleged copyright violations. The latest iteration of the tool, Seedance 2.0, has seen a surge of hyper-realistic AI-generated clips circulating on social media, some appearing to feature characters from major film franchises.

In a new viral AI video, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise pummel each other on a rooftop in a cinematic action sequence. It's not a trailer for a new blockbuster, and it's not actually Pitt and Cruise, though it looks a lot like them. The video is so realistic, in fact, that the clearest sign it's made with AI is the dialogue.
The Melania Trump documentary includes a portion of Jonny Greenwood's Oscar-nominated score to the Paul Thomas Anderson film Phantom Thread. In a new statement released Monday, Greenwood said that while he does own the copyright to the score, Universal Pictures "failed to consult [him] on this third-party use which is a breach of his composer agreement." "As a result Jonny and Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for it to be removed from the documentary," the statement adds.
Since the version of the article initially published, the copyright line has been amended to North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and James Napoli, under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
"A lot of these AI businesses are looking for readily available, structured databases of content," Robert Hahn, head of business affairs and licensing for The Guardian, told . "The Internet Archive's API would have been an obvious place to plug their own machines into and suck out the IP."
Google has just started rolling out access to its new "experimental research prototype" Project Genie, an AI tool powered by Genie 3 and Gemini that allows users to create interactive, explorable worlds with a simple text prompt. Unsurprisingly, someone has immediately used it to generate a bunch of playable Nintendo knock-offs, including a The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild clone, complete with a usable paraglider.
On the way home, I screenshot and crop a news article and share it to one of my WhatsApp groups. In another group, a family member has posted an AI-generated video (forwarded many times) of Donald Trump getting his head shaved by Xi Jinping while Joe Biden laughs in the background. I watch the mindless slop on my phone as I walk along the main road, instinctively gripping my phone a little tighter as I do so.