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BusinessNew York Times and three papers sue Brave over AI search index
BusinessRunway must face YouTube creators' DMCA scraping suit
BusinessWikimedia asks court to test AI fair use stage by stage
SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA and WGA ask judge to reject AI's fair use defense
Actors, musicians and writers unions filed a joint brief in the OpenAI copyright case, saying a blanket exemption would void the AI terms they bargained for.
microsoft
Microsoft and Epic fire DMCA takedowns at AI-built game ports
Epic took down a browser Fortnite port on October 10, and Microsoft has chased Minecraft, Call of Duty and Halo ports while its own AI director called such training theft.
anthropic
Elvis Presley rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 songs
The licensing platform Authentic Brands Group and its co-plaintiffs allege Anthropic trained Claude on the songs without permission and stripped songwriter credits.
ASAP Rocky
ASAP Rocky accused of copying a 2019 parkour clip with AI
VFX artist Cache Bunny says a six-second stretch of the Shroom Clouds video matches footage published in 2019 with parkour athlete Jason Paul.
korea
Korea's AI film boom is outrunning its copyright rules
Generative AI has pulled Korean AI films close to live-action quality, but its copyright, likeness and performer rules remain unsettled.
deepfakes
EU Socialists draft a bloc-wide ban on harmful deepfakes
The group's tech objectives, seen by POLITICO, would put the duty to stop deepfakes on platforms and AI providers, and name no mechanism for the ban.
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.
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.
vn-ai
VN.AI launches VN Studio to log authorship and clear IP
The platform keeps a ledger of every AI and human action and scans output for copyright conflicts while the work is made.
Midjourney
Midjourney v8.1 ranks worst of 15 in a VN.ai copyright audit
The startup says Midjourney put copyrighted characters into violent or drug-related scenes in 37% of prompts, and no model came out clean.
Apple
Apple loses bid to dismiss YouTube AI scraping suit
Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco let the DMCA anti-circumvention claim proceed, rejecting Apple's argument that publicly available YouTube videos have no access controls.
Thomson Reuters
Third Circuit rules ROSS's AI training was not fair use
The court held 2,243 Westlaw headnotes are copyrightable and found ROSS's use of them to train its legal AI minimally transformative at best.
Denmark
Denmark moves to ban sharing AI deepfakes without consent
Culture minister Zenia Stampe's bill targets platforms that fail to remove lifelike copies of a person's face or voice, and would protect performers too.
ByteDance
ByteDance must face YouTubers' DMCA suit over AI training scrape
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley denied ByteDance's motion to dismiss on October 2, holding the creators plausibly alleged a lost-advertising injury tied to circumvention.
AI video
Bethesda shuts down a viral AI-made Fallout game
The browser game, built with Claude Opus 5.5, drew 3.5 million views before ZeniMax sent a cease-and-desist over the Fallout name.
Thomson Reuters
Appeals court: training an AI on Westlaw notes is not fair use
The Third Circuit upheld Thomson Reuters' win over Ross Intelligence in the first US appellate ruling on AI training, and the court's reasoning is sealed.
Suno
The "model laundering" case against Suno could reach AI video models
Universal and Sony say Suno's v6 inherited infringement from models trained on their recordings, and the same distillation step built this week's few-step video releases.