Anthropic Pitches Opt-Out Copyright Rule to Australia
Anthropic asks Australia for an opt-out copyright rule for AI training, while ABC and SBS push for a pay-first model tied to news bargaining rules.
AI copyright News and Analysis
10 verified stories covering AI copyright, product updates and industry developments.
Reddit to end RSS in November, shut public API by March 2027
Reddit will stop supporting RSS on November 13 and close its public API by March 2027, citing abuse by large-scale scraping and automated bots.
Unsealed filings tie OpenAI, Microsoft to LibGen piracy
Unsealed Authors Guild court filings claim OpenAI and Microsoft knew LibGen training data was pirated, and detail an internal deletion effort called Project Clear.
Microsoft Exec Called AI Training the Biggest Labor Theft Ever
An unsealed NYT legal brief quotes a Microsoft director calling AI training on news content the ‘largest theft of labor in history.’
Suno's v6 runs on licensed music data as old models retire
Suno's v6 family retires all older models; Warner, BMG and Believe are licensed partners, while Sony, Universal and Jason Isbell remain unresolved.
DOJ Backs OpenAI, Says AI Training Is Fair Use
The US Department of Justice told a Manhattan federal court that training AI on copyrighted works is fair use, siding with OpenAI against The New York Times.
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.
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.