copyright
Wuhan court: an AI micro-drama is a copyrightable film
The Jiang'an District People's Court held that a 47-episode AI-assisted micro-drama is a protected audiovisual work, and counted token and tool-licensing costs when it set damages.
copyright
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Suno
Sony and Universal Music sue Suno again over 60,202 songs
The September 18 complaint alleges Suno trained its v6 models partly on outputs of its earlier, unlicensed models, a practice the labels call model laundering.
ByteDance
ByteDance's YouTube scraping defense draws a skeptical judge
A San Francisco judge questioned the company's argument that downloading public YouTube videos is not the unauthorized access the DMCA's anti-circumvention rule covers.
DMCA
Appeals court rejects copyright-notice claims over GitHub Copilot
The Ninth Circuit held that Copilot and OpenAI's Codex generating new code without copyright notices is not "removing" them, leaving infringement claims as the harder road for AI plaintiffs.
MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3's free license excludes the US, EU, UK and South Korea
The MiniMax H3 Community License is royalty-free and allows commercial work, but it carves out four territories, a $20 million revenue ceiling and a ban on training other models.