AirTag Tracks a Used Book to Amazon's Book-Scanning Warehouse
A hidden AirTag led to a Las Vegas Amazon warehouse that scans used books for AI training data, then discards the paper originals.
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Suno Loses German Copyright Case
A Munich court ruled mostly for GEMA against Suno, focusing on memorized music outputs, six songs, fair use and platform responsibility.
New York Times publisher calls AI scraping “brazen theft”
A.G. Sulzberger told global media executives that AI companies captured the value of journalism while less than 0.5% of the $350 billion invested in U.S. AI reached content producers.
Anthropic Pays $1.5 Billion to Settle AI Training Copyright Case
Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement in a class-action copyright lawsuit with nearly 500,000 authors, with a final approval hearing set for May 14. The case establishes that while training AI on copyrighted works is fair use, using pirated sources is not, marking a key legal boundary for the industry.