Suno is releasing v6, a new generation of AI music models developed with participation from Warner Music Group and BMG. Ashley Carman and Lucas Shaw report for Bloomberg that the company will pay music copyright holders when users create tracks with the new models. The rollout marks a change from Suno’s earlier models, which did …
The US Department of Justice has urged a federal court to treat the use of copyrighted text for training large language models as fair use, siding with OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with The New York Times. In a letter filed in the consolidated copyright case in Manhattan, the government argues that AI training …
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei, and cofounder Benjamin Mann, alleging that Claude was built and operated using tens of thousands of copyrighted songs without permission. Tim Ingham reports for Music Business Worldwide that the case was filed in federal court in Northern California. It adds Sony and …
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is now declining requests to write in the exact style of well known authors, instead offering text based on broader characteristics such as mood, genre and narrative approach. Kyle Orland reports for Ars Technica that the change affects prompts referring to both living and deceased writers, including Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Amy Tan, …
OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit, calling the allegations baseless. The move follows Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction that could restrict OpenAI’s work on AI devices while the case proceeds. Apple alleges that former employees took confidential information about unannounced hardware products to OpenAI. The company names former …
A Munich court has ruled that US AI music company Suno infringed copyrights and must disclose revenue linked to the violations. The decision could increase pressure on AI music providers to negotiate licences with rights holders. Elizabeth Grenier reports for Deutsche Welle that the Munich Regional Court has also ordered Suno to pay damages, although …
A federal judge in San Francisco has given final approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers whose books were obtained from pirate websites. The deal resolves a major copyright class action over material connected to the training of Anthropic’s Claude AI models. The settlement is the largest known recovery in a US …
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the AI company of orchestrating a systematic theft of trade secrets to build its own hardware device. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, names OpenAI’s Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan and former Apple engineer Chang Liu as defendants, alongside …
Midjourney is pushing to expose how Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. use artificial intelligence internally, as the AI image generator fights a major copyright lawsuit filed by the studios. Gene Maddaus reports for Variety. The studios sued Midjourney last year, alleging massive infringement of their copyrighted characters. Midjourney has responded with a fair use defense, …
A German court has ruled that Google is legally responsible for the content of its AI-generated search summaries. Bruce Schneier writes for Schneier on Security that the court rejected Google’s argument that users should verify AI output themselves, ruling instead that the summaries are “an expression of Google’s business activities.” The decision reignites a long-running …