Disney has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google, alleging that the tech giant is using artificial intelligence to infringe copyrights on a massive scale. Todd Spangler reports for Variety. The entertainment company claims Google copies Disney’s copyrighted works without authorization to train generative AI models. Disney also alleges that Google uses these models to distribute …
Disney and OpenAI have announced a three-year licensing agreement that allows users to create videos featuring over 200 Disney characters using the Sora AI video platform. Disney will invest $1 billion in OpenAI and receive warrants for additional equity as part of the deal. The agreement covers characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars …
Warner Music Group has announced a partnership with the AI music generator Suno, settling a previous copyright infringement lawsuit. Murray Stassen reports for Music Business Worldwide. The two companies will collaborate on developing new licensed AI music models. According to the announcement, the deal gives artists and songwriters full control over the use of their …
Warner Music has settled a lawsuit with the artificial intelligence startup Udio and entered into a licensing agreement, according to people familiar with the matter. This deal allows Udio to use music from Warner’s extensive catalog, which includes artists like Ed Sheeran and Madonna. Anna Nicolaou reports for the Financial Times that the agreement paves …
The nonprofit Common Crawl Foundation is supplying AI companies with copyrighted news articles scraped from behind paywalls, enabling firms like OpenAI and Google to train their large language models on high-quality journalism. The organization publicly states that it only collects freely available content. Alex Reisner reports for The Atlantic that this claim is false. According …
OpenAI has asked a federal judge to reverse an order requiring the company to turn over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT conversations to the New York Times and other news outlets. The request stems from an ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit against the AI company. The New York Times and other publishers are suing OpenAI, claiming the …
OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet pose new challenges for publishers trying to control AI access to their content. These AI browsers can retrieve paywalled articles that traditional AI interfaces cannot access, the Columbia Journalism Review reports. The browsers succeed because they appear identical to human users in website logs. While automated crawlers identify themselves with …
Actors Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have partnered with AI audio company ElevenLabs to create digital replicas of their voices. Todd Spangler reports for Variety. McConaughey is investing in the New York-based company and using its technology to produce a Spanish-language version of his newsletter “Lyrics of Livin’” in his own voice. He has worked …
A Munich court has ruled that OpenAI infringed German copyright law by reproducing protected song lyrics in its ChatGPT chatbot. Jörn Poltz reports for Reuters. The regional court found that OpenAI trained its AI models on copyrighted content from nine German songs, including hits by best-selling musician Herbert Groenemeyer. The case was brought by GEMA, …
Amazon has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI to prevent the startup’s Comet browser agent from making purchases on its platform. The case, filed in San Francisco federal court accuses Perplexity of computer fraud for failing to disclose when its AI agent shops on behalf of users, violating Amazon’s terms of service. The lawsuit follows …