UMG Recordings sued DistroKid in the District of Delaware for alleged copyright infringement, claiming the distributor is "flooding platforms with AI-generated 'slop' that siphons revenue and listener…
Times Publishing Company and additional newspapers filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, marking what the source counts as the 143rd copyright su…
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of Doe 1's DMCA copyright management information (CMI) removal claim against GitHub in Doe 1 v. GitHub, holding that a new AI model output does not involve a r…
Summary judgment briefing has been completed in Concord Music v. Anthropic I, with a hearing set for October 21, 2026 before Judge Lee in San Jose, according to the case report. The case is one of onl…
The U.S. Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies now counts 142 cases, according to an updated tally that adds Gray v. Nadella et al., a derivative suit on behalf of Microsoft Corporation, and The Seat…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman published "The Humanist AI Code of Conduct," a four-objective framework stating that models must stay under meaningful human oversight, must not claim consciousness o…
Vice President JD Vance on Monday questioned why AI industry leaders are calling for more regulation, warning it could amount to a "Trojan horse" by companies that could benefit from new restrictions,…
OpenAI filed a reply supporting dismissal of Ted Entertainment's DMCA anti-circumvention claim concerning YouTube videos. The filing continues OpenAI's defense against the copyright-related litigation…
Judge Pitts set a scheduling order in Cambronne v. Anthropic for authors and publishers who opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement, with trial scheduled for 2028. Non-expert summary judgment m…
King Charles is convening a summit at Dumfries House in Scotland with representatives from Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind/Google, and NVIDIA, with OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar attending, according to the New Y…
Anthropic filed its opposition to Daniel Benjamin Gilbert's motion to dismiss Anthropic's counterclaim for fair use, escalating a copyright dispute in which Gilbert, proceeding pro se, has agreed not …
BMG filed a First Amended Complaint against Anthropic in its ongoing copyright case, which is before Judge Lee alongside suits brought by Concord Music and Sony Music. The filing's specific changes we…
Anthropic's IPO is reportedly delayed until mid-October or later amid internal dissent over AI extinction risk, after Jacob Coxon quit and Anthropic Lead for Alignment Science Evan Hubinger agreed tha…
Reddit has named Paul Cappuccio as its new Chief Legal Officer, effective mid-September, replacing Ben Lee, who is stepping down after serving since 2019. Cappuccio, who previously represented Dow Jon…
Thomson Reuters has filed its reply to ROSS Intelligence's 28(j) letter regarding the United States' Statement of Interest on fair use in the ongoing copyright litigation between the two companies. Th…
Judge Davila ruled that Ted Entertainment v. Meta is not related to Ted Entertainment v. NVIDIA, keeping the Meta case with Judge Tigar. No AI copyright cases have been deemed related despite involvin…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned and publicly warned that AI could cause human extinction by 2030, a series of X posts that drew 100 million views. Coxon, who spent three years in pretraining…
Judge Lee related EVOX Productions' lawsuit against Google to the ongoing In re Google Generative AI Litigation, consolidating the cases under his jurisdiction. The only related lawsuit against Google…
Judge Lee has related the newly filed Sony Music lawsuit against Anthropic to the earlier Concord Music cases, consolidating oversight of all music copyright lawsuits against Anthropic, including thos…
The FBI, NSA, and CISA jointly released a Cybersecurity Advisory flagging Chinese AI companies DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI for engaging in "industrial-scale knowledge di…