@ipcopyright
A group for all things related to copyright and intellectual property rights. Legal questions should be directed to an intellectual property attorney. We support creators! #copyright #piracy #IP #USCO #creators
“Anna’s Archive is a brazen pirate operation that steals and distributes millions of literary works while outrageously offering access to AI developers in exchange for crypto payments. To fight back, we must use all available tools.”
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As A.I. systems ingest copyrighted works at scale, courts, creators and companies are redefining what protection means.
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“If a third-party promoter can use editorial images for marketing and social media promotion without permission or compensation, the practical value of copyright is significantly diminished.
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law.
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More than 700 creators have signed a proclamation denouncing unauthorized use of news, movie, recording, photography and other content by AI models as stealing.
ipcloseup.com/2026/01/27/c...
Suno and Udio the pair have strived to make peace with the industry. Suno, now valued at $2.45 billion, last year struck a settlement with Warner, and Udio has signed licensing agreements with Warner, Universal and independent label Merlin.
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Join our No Artists No Art campaign on social media and by speaking up about the importance of protecting working creatives and the value we bring to society, culture, and the economy.
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Reporting highlighted by CNBC notes that some influencers and creatives are turning down AI‑related sponsorships altogether, citing concerns about audience backlash, ethical questions around AI, or fears of being seen as “selling out” to a controversial technology.
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“He is suing Google, alleging that it violated his rights by building a product that replicated his voice without payment or permission, giving users the power to make it say things Greene would never say.”
The company, alongside many of its competitors in the AI space, has been indiscriminately scraping the internet for content, without compensating rightsholders, racking up many copyright infringement lawsuits along the way.
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The Copyright Labeling & Ethical AI Reporting Act would require companies file a notice with the Register of Copyrights that detail the copyrighted works used to train datasets for an AI model. The notice would apply retroactively to models already available.
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The court, in reversing in part a district court’s grant of summary judgment, emphasized that a service provider could not “curate[d] its collection of images for display” and still preserve its safe harbor status
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Send a letter to your Congressional Representatives to continue to encourage them to stand up for creators.
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North Carolina initially agreed in 2013 to stop the copyright violations & pay Allen $15,000 for unauthorized use. Then, in 2015, North Carolina passed “Blackbeard’s Law,” which allowed state agencies to freely use materials related to shipwrecks in their possession.
petapixel.com/2026/01/29/p...
COPYRIGHT—Sovereign immunity will have to wait another day.
Allen discovered that his work had been uploaded to an NC-operated YouTube channel and onto other social media platforms. Two years later, the State formally commandeered the footage for itself..
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The original copyright infringement lawsuit was filed in 2023 by a group of illustrators and writers. Now Cengage & the trade publisher Hachette Book Group, are asking to enter the case to represent all publishers whose rights have also infringed by Google.
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A U.S. District Judge refused to throw out three of the publisher’s copyright infringement claims which accused OpenAI of distributing copies of its copyrighted works with the copyright management information removed, in violation of the DMCA.
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A new bill that is being proposed wants to make it less expensive for visual artists to protect their work. Called the Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act of 2025 (VACRA), it wants to reduce fees associated with copyright protection.
petapixel.com/2025/12/17/p...
Disney & OpenAI are affirming a shared commitment to the responsible use of AI that protects user safety & the rights of creators. The companies will advance human-centered AI that respects the creative industries & expands what is possible for storytelling.
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AI models are built out of content & data these companies take without getting permission, without offering compensation to all the humans whose writing & ideas & videos & voices & thoughts & labor & time & perspective go into making these products valuable.
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The coalition argues Cox was sent numerous notices of specific IP addresses repeatedly violating music copyrights and that Cox's failure to terminate those IP addresses from internet access means that Cox should face the music.
www.npr.org/2025/12/01/n...
The AI entertainment landscape is starting to shift, with deals springing up between formerly adversarial AI companies and entertainment corporations, especially in the music space.
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
"Copying protectable expression to create a competing substitute isn’t innovation: it’s theft," Thomson Reuters argues in papers filed Wednesday with the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
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WMG said that the “next-generation music creation, listening, and discovery platform” will be powered by generative AI models trained on licensed and authorized music.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/19/w...
The platforms not only made searching for infringing copies impossible, but they often stalled or simply stopped responding to DMCA takedowns. Stolen videos would stay up for months, getting tens of millions of views while my YouTube originals faltered.
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Judge Colleen McMahon held that “substitutive summaries”—non-verbatim outputs that mirror the expressive structure and journalistic storytelling choices of the originals—may plausibly infringe copyright. That was enough to let the claims move forward.
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Zlozower claimed the museum neither licensed the photo nor provided credit or a source when exhibiting the image of the band in the exhibit about guitars.
petapixel.com/2025/11/13/p...
Videographer Rick Allen says North Carolina illegally copied his work without permission or payment. More than a decade later, he’s still trying to get paid.
www.cityviewnc.com/stories/avas...
The court found that both the memorisation in the language models and the reproduction of the song lyrics in the chatbot's outputs constitute infringements of copyright exploitation rights, according to a statement on the ruling.
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