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Trump’s Comments Undermine AI Action Plan, Threaten Copyright
After the White House released an action plan on artificial intelligence that all but ignored the issue of intellectual property, and the Senate introduced a new bipartisan bill aimed to curb AI companies’ theft of creative work, President Trump said that requiring tech companies to pay to train their models on copyrighted books and other content was “not doable.”
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Judge Rules Class Action Suit Against Anthropic Can Proceed
The AI company is believed to have copied up to seven million books from the pirate sites LibGen and PiLiMi. Experts said if the authors win the class action, Anthropic could be facing a billion-dollar settlement.
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Senate Hearing Debates AI Training on Copyrighted Works
After hearing testimony from five witnesses, including author David Baldacci, Senator Josh Hawley concluded that if the way tech companies collect content to train their AI models isn’t copyright infringement, then “we need to change the law.”
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Meta Wins AI Copyright Case, But Judge Writes Roadmap for Authors’ Revenge
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria granted summary judgment to Meta in a copyright case brought by 13 authors, saying they offered virtually no proof of how they were harmed by Meta's use of their work, while outlining several ways they might succeed in the future.
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Federal Judge Rules AI Training Is Fair Use in Anthropic Copyright Case
A federal judge in California has issued a complicated ruling in one of the first major copyright cases involving AI training, finding that while using books to train AI models constitutes fair use, downloading pirated books was a violation of copyright law.
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Copyright Chief Fired Amid AI Debate
The Trump administration fired Shira Perlmutter, the register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, on Saturday—just one day after the dismissal of her boss, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, and the Copyright Office’s release of a preliminary report on generative AI and copyright.
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As Industry Demands AI Licensing Frameworks, Emerging Tech Can Help
With generative AI forging ahead unfettered, leaders in publishing and other creative industries are asking for licensing frameworks that protect creators while enabling technological innovation. New platforms and software are bringing solutions closer.
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Book Biz to Big Tech: Pay Up, Then We Can Make Up
Artificial intelligence is upending publishing, and industry leaders know there’s no end in sight. That’s why they plan to win key copyright lawsuits—then forge a path forward through Silicon Valley.
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Publishers See Mixed Messages in Paris AI Summit
The just-concluded Artificial Intelligence Action Summit did not include copyright protection as one of its six top priorities, to the disappointment of the AAP, but did mention that protection of IP is worthy of “global reflection.”
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New Government Report Addresses ‘Copyrightability’ of AI Works
A report from the U.S. Copyright Office determined that works purely generated by AI are not eligible to be copyrighted, but works created by human authors assisted by AI can be given copyright protection.
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