Artificial intelligence, professionally covered
Thirteen affirmative defences filed in Boston on 1 September. The fair-use claim is the one being reported; the copyright-misuse defence, which asks the court to hold the majors' copyrights unenforceable, is the one that matters.
2d ago
A 20-page Statement of Interest under 28 U.S.C. § 517, filed into roughly twenty member cases at once, asks Judge Stein to reject the argument that training on copyrighted texts infringes — and attacks a sitting judge's reasoning by name.
2d ago
The ruling is narrower than it looks and more consequential than it sounds. It is about the standard of review, and it lands while class certification is pending.
Aug 25, 2026
A music publisher, not a label, is suing over compositions — and the billion-dollar figure everyone is reporting depends on the cases growing twentyfold first.
Aug 18, 2026
Six months after a cease-and-desist over Seedance 2.0, the MPA has a framework with ByteDance that grants no rights, releases no claims and says nothing about training data.
Aug 18, 2026
In the New York Times copyright MDL, Microsoft filed against sanctions sought from its own co-defendant — arguing a jury cannot be told to hold an adverse inference against only one of them.
Aug 14, 2026
The ruling denies protection to AI-generated pictures on the grounds that issuing commands to a model is technical work, not creative authorship. No court name, case number or ruling date has been published.
Aug 3, 2026
The Landgericht München I found for GEMA against Suno on both limbs — the training and the output. It is a first-instance judgment, it is appealable, and it sets no damages figure.
Jul 31, 2026
A bill reviewed by Reuters would grant full copyright to AI-assisted works with 'sufficient' human creative direction — and a new, weaker layer of related rights to works AI generates almost on its own.
Jul 17, 2026
A New York Times-led coalition says OpenAI claimed it could not search its training data for copyrighted journalism — while an engineer's deposition showed it had already done exactly that, before the first lawsuit was filed.
Jul 10, 2026
