Anthropic
Judge hears Anthropic's fair use defense on Claude lyrics
U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee pressed both sides on market harm, one of the four fair use factors, and questioned the publishers' threat claim.
Geraldo Levi Glick
AI film festivals
AI film festival season peaks with $150,000 in prizes
The Lumara Film Festival publishes $100,000 in cash and 10 million Venice AI credits as prizes, with its winners named on October 26.
arizona
Arizona court tosses 10.5-year sentence over AI victim video
The Court of Appeals held that a video of a shooting victim, scripted by his sister and voiced by AI, was not reliable enough for sentencing.
AXE
AXE's shelved 2021 subway spot returns as a 48-shot AI film
Director Cassandra Brooksbank rebuilt it with ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 on Absurd, where she helps run commercials, so the spot doubles as a demo.
wga east
WGA East gives writers Cloak to make scripts unreadable to AI
The guild's more than 7,500 members get the tool free, while non-members pay $10 on top of a $25 script registration that lasts 10 years.
midjourney
Midjourney must hand over video training data to the studios
Studios suing Midjourney get a file-level look at a shipped AI video model's training data under an agreed protocol, not a ruling, and their damages claim is unquantified.
getup
GetUp posts a fake AI video to push a political ad ban
The advocacy group's petition to ban lifelike AI-generated depictions of people or events that never existed had more than 17,300 signatures as of October 16.
irreplaceable
Freeze AI Now walkouts hit US campuses and city centers
Irreplaceable, a group launched in late August, wants an immediate halt to frontier AI development until people have a say, a stake and safety guardrails.
mcp
This week in media MCPs: Unity ships 32 skills and two servers retire
Runway and ElevenLabs retired their local MCP servers in the same week Unity shipped 32 official skills for coding agents. Every media-creation MCP server and skill pack we track, with the date each figure was read.
Merry the Christmas Witch
Merry the Christmas Witch cost $1.5M to make with AI
Director Tom Walsh says the AI-assisted film, based on Bobbi Hess's 2012 children's book, has no distributor and was made by about 50 people.
Felix Film
Felix Film edits animator job listing over generative AI
The Mitaka studio said it has not decided to use generative AI for images and is studying its potential future use.
applovin
AppLovin sued over AI video ad tool and model claims
The proposed class covers investors who acquired AppLovin securities between Feb. 12 and Aug. 5, 2026, after the company posted 53% quarterly revenue growth.
olivia-rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo's expectations video draws AI accusations
Fans flagged a missing hand and a color shift in one animated shot; a post to Rodrigo's official fan channel showed the hand-drawn animation behind it.
Magic Engine Studios
Magic Engine has released six AI features in 15 months
The studio's 90-minute Halloween sequel premiered on Alchemy Streaming via Apple TV and Roku, the sixth feature in a run that began with The Cheep in July 2025.
deepfakes
Audit finds 46 women MEPs targeted by sexual deepfakes
The EU's nudifier ban takes effect December 2, but 119 MEPs say it needs enforcement and the research finds no removal deadline for platforms.
Climax Studio
Hellbound producer Climax Studio adds two AI feature films
The Korean producer behind Hellbound and D.P. named Wonso and Yogoejeon at Busan's Asian Contents and Film Market, part of a widening AI slate.
Bulin 47
Bulin 47's freestyle is one of October's biggest AI templates
The clip works because everything except the performer stays fixed, and creators have three routes to put themselves in it.
Matryoshka
Russian bots inflate views of fake AI clips of celebrities
Bloomberg reviewed 130 videos and doctored newspaper front pages from September 10 to October 9 that researchers attribute to a Russian operation called Matryoshka.
culver city
AI film studios are converging on Culver City
Luma AI, Promise, TrueShort and Native Foreign are expanding in the historic Heart of Screenland, where AI on the Lot estimates $2 billion in backing has landed.
Japan Actors Union
Japan actors union publishes first AI voice guidelines
The voluntary rules require a performer's consent before training, generation and release, pay for AI voice use, and fresh permission for AI dubbing.