Copyright & IP

The online data repository Kaggle has removed a problematic dataset for violating intellectual property rights months after it was flagged by sleuths for containing celebrity photos and lacking information on data provenance or confirmed medical diagnoses. Researchers had used the images to train machine learning algorithms to detect stroke, but the dataset instead contained images … Continue reading Kaggle removes problematic stroke dataset for copyright infringement

Japan’s draft “Principle Code” on intellectual property protection and transparency for generative AI (see our earlier post for a summary of the code) has attracted significant attention, with more than 2,000 consultation responses received from businesses, industry groups and rights holders. The responses suggest that transparency will play a central role in Japan’s approach to [...] The post Japan’s “Principle Code” for Generative AI (Part 2): What the Public Consultations Reveal appeared firs

Advanced technologies now account for around one in every six valid invention patents in China, according to official data. By the end of last month, valid invention patents in fields such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and big data made up 16.5 per cent of the country’s total valid patents, the China National Intellectual Property Administration said on Wednesday. “The accelerated accumulation of patents in cutting-edge sectors is empowering and enhancing the creation of new...

The Delhi High Court has ruled that ISPs and domain registrars cannot determine whether a website is rogue and may only technically verify mirror websites. The post Delhi HC says piracy injunctions cannot give copyright owners unilateral blocking powers appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

For a year, the story of Chinese AI has been simple. It is nearly as good as the American frontier, and it is effectively free. That second part may be about to change. Chinese developers could start charging cloud platforms commercial licensing fees to host their open-weight models, Goldman Sachs told the South China Morning […] This story continues at The Next Web

An Xbox executive said yesterday's outage was due to "a licensing service that sits outside of Xbox."

The directive comes as AI companies confront mounting copyright pressure.

On the heels of a $1.5 billion copyright infringement ruling against Anthropic, OpenAI has adjusted ChatGPT’s programming to refuse requests to mimic the style of well-known authors. While the chatbot used to happily write in the voice of professional writers, attempts to convince it to do so now are met with a polite refusal and an suggested alternative. Fast Company , for instance, asked ChatGPT to write a story about a family in the Depression in the voice of John Steinbeck. The chatbot repli

The directive comes as AI companies confront mounting copyright pressure.

In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.

Chinese artificial intelligence developers could start charging cloud platforms commercial licensing fees to host their open-weight models, according to the head of Asia internet research at Goldman Sachs, as firms look to capture more revenue from their soaring global use. The assessment comes as Chinese AI models – such as Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2 – have reached performance levels just a fraction behind top US rivals. However, because Chinese developers typically release...

Jason Arday In September 2025, Times Higher Education had a bombshell story in the works: A star sociology professor at the University of Cambridge had allegedly plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thesis and several journal articles. In one of the articles, the borrowed text appeared in quotes from subjects the professor, Jason Arday, claimed to … Continue reading Exclusive: News outlet killed story on plagiarism allegations after Cambridge prof hired law firm

The Delhi High Court has handed OpenAI a major win in its copyright fight with news agency ANI. For the first time, a court has classified AI training as private use. ANI undermined its own case by citing articles published after the models were trained. The main trial is still pending. The article Delhi High Court hands OpenAI a win by rejecting major Indian news agency's copyright injunction appeared first on The Decoder .

The change applies only to songs and music, while registration fees for other categories of creative work are unchanged. Source

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arXiv:2607.21799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly perform commercial tasks that involve retrieving external content such as images and, where appropriate, reproducing that content. LLM agents should comply with the law, including copyright law. Presently, however, we lack adequate frameworks to assess whether they do so in practice. To that end, we introduce \textbf{Copyright-Bench}, a benchmark designed to evaluate \textit{LLM agents' compliance wi

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) adopted a Second Report and Order that promotes the deployment of submarine cables while strengthening national security interests in connection with their modern capabilities. The Second Report and Order establishes a regulatory regime for licensing owners and/or operators of submarine line terminal equipment (SLTE), including granting a blanket license to certain current and future SLTE owners and/or operators that are

In its judgment of 11 November 2025 (42 O 14139/24), the Munich I Regional Court (Germany) issued a widely noted precedent on the copyright assessment of AI training and outputs under German and EU law. According to its press release1, the ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1278#7586)

OpenAI has been ordered to pay damages after a court in Germany ruled that its chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws. The Munich regional court ruled in favour of the German music performance rights organization GEMA which manages ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1278#7587)

AI music transcription company Klangio is the dataset's first customer. Source

The agreement merges Oracle's product and licensing services into one contract, which the Defense Department estimates will result in at least $441 million in savings.

The Delhi High Court refused ANI interim relief in its copyright suit against OpenAI, finding no prima facie infringement but affirming that Indian courts have jurisdiction. The post ANI vs OpenAI Copyright Dispute: Delhi High Court declines interim relief appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Currently, most foundation models can reproduce or strongly depend on copyrighted training content, but output similarity alone is insufficient for infringement detection, because similar outputs may also arise from public-domain concepts, common stylistic conventions, or ordinary statistical generalization. In this paper, we develops a unified post-hoc detection framework that treats copyright infringement evidence as a counterfactual conditional distribution shift: a protected target is suspic

A plurality of respondents to a recent survey believe China is further along than the U.S. on developing artificial intelligence, as Trump administration officials accuse a Chinese startup of stealing intellectual property. Thirty-six percent of respondents to the Pew Research Center poll think China is more advanced on AI than the U.S., while just 12...

The global AI community has pushed back against the Trump administration’s claims that Moonshot AI’s groundbreaking Kimi K3 distilled US models, citing a lack of justification and arguing that the practice does not constitute intellectual property theft. In separate posts on X on Thursday, a number of AI experts called the accusations “political” and “reckless”, pointing out that an AI model’s output was not copyrighted. A Moonshot employee on Thursday hit back at the US officials’ claims that..

Preprocessing blood glucose time-series data is a critical yet often overlooked step in developing data-driven methods for diabetes management, particularly for type 1 diabetes. The lack of standardized preprocessing workflows and evaluation protocols hinders reproducibility and complicates fair comparison across studies. These challenges are further exacerbated by data-sharing restrictions, as privacy and licensing constraints often prevent the redistribution of preprocessed medical datasets. T

Anthropic has to pay $1.5 billion to book authors, the largest copyright settlement in class action history. But the payout is for downloading roughly 482,460 works from piracy databases, not for AI training itself. Judge Alsup had previously ruled that AI training on legally obtained books is "transformative" and falls under fair use. The settlement is actually a win for AI labs. The article Anthropic's $1.5B piracy settlement with book authors is a record loss that hands AI labs their biggest

Amílcar Boscán also asked a judge to let him reclaim the copyrights to the song under US copyright law. Source

Substack has partnered with AI plagiarism checker Pangram to introduce a new ‘scan for AI text’ feature. On any Substack post published after 4.30pm on the 21 of July 2026, readers can now select the “scan for AI text” tile from the drop-down menu in the top right corner of the web version and it will give the percentage of … The post Substack promotes human content with ‘scan for AI’ feature appeared first on Press Gazette .

Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed in agreement between AI startup and authors over use of their work The publisher of Harry Potter has received a multimillion-pound payout as a beneficiary of a $1.5bn (£1.12bn) copyright settlement between the AI startup Anthropic and thousands of authors over the use of their protected work to power chatbots. Bloomsbury, which is home to the bestselling novelists Sarah J Maas and Susanna Clarke as well as JK Rowling, said it had 14,087 titles listed within th

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signalled potential action against open source artificial intelligence (AI) models amid accusations that Chinese developers are creating low-cost systems using stolen US intellectual property. “This administration supports open source models, but what we do not support is IP theft,” Bessent said on Fox Business on Tuesday. “If we see, especially, that overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sanction them.” Watermarks from.

Plus: New York Times and Chicago Tribune sue Perplexity and Google signs non-licensing AI deals. The post Who’s suing AI and who’s signing: News Corp sues Brave, Microsoft signs Australian Copilot deal appeared first on Press Gazette .

Anthropic will pay roughly $3,000 per book to thousands of writers in what plaintiffs call the largest copyright recovery ever.

Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Tuesday the Trump administration could sanction China over intellectual property (IP) theft amid concerns about whether Beijing is relying on American AI to develop its own advanced models. "We've seen a lot of talk about you know open-source models coming and threatening the large language models in the U.S." Bessent...

Clinical NLP evaluation remains dominated by multiple-choice question answering (MCQA), which scores only final-answer accuracy and cannot detect when a model reaches the correct diagnosis while grounding it in irrelevant, absent, or contradictory evidence. We introduce MIRA-Ev, a clinical argument mining benchmark built on Spanish Médico Interno Residente (MIR) licensing-exam cases, re-annotated by expert clinicians with span-level premises, claims, and directed support/attack relations, and re

The sites violated United States copyright law, the Department of Justice said.

* Anthropic settles copyright case for $1.5B dollars. [ Reuters ] * Roughly half of Americans think the Supreme Court decides the cases based on politics. The other half are currently assisting a Nigerian prince recover his money. [ ABA Journal ] * The entire American AI industry runs on financing that looks an awful lot like Enron. Good news for future eDiscovery demos in about 5 years! [ Bloomberg Law News ] * Court hits pause on Paramount merger. [ CNBC ] * Arizona Supreme Court rules that at

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.

Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley's Hound Dog to Beyoncé's Say My Name, and Harry Styles' As It Was. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on Monday, claims that this […]