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UMG Recordings seeks to file 2d Amended Complaint adding
Read more: UMG Recordings seeks to file 2d Amended Complaint addingUMG Recordings and Sony Music Entertainment are seeking leave to file a Second Amended Complaint to add 61,026 more works to the list of works Suno allegedly infringed, plus a claim for circumvention of technological protection measures under the DMCA, Section 1201. The plaintiffs contend they obtained relevant information of works infringed from discovery of…
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Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah’s remarks at Pope Leo’s event for encyclical on AI and “Magnifica humanitas”
Read more: Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah’s remarks at Pope Leo’s event for encyclical on AI and “Magnifica humanitas”Pope Leo XIV’s 42,000 word encyclical on AI titled ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence’ commanded the attention of the news media on Memorial Day. But perhaps the most surprising aspect of today’s event was that Anthropic co-cofounder Christopher Olah was invited to give a few remarks. It’s unclear…
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Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 Nobel Prize winner in literature, draws anti-AI flak for admitting the benefits of using AI to research and brainstorm for her writing
Read more: Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 Nobel Prize winner in literature, draws anti-AI flak for admitting the benefits of using AI to research and brainstorm for her writingThe anti-AI backlash is getting bad. Real bad. The acclaimed author and Nobel Prize winner in literature Olga Tokarczuk is receiving blowback for comments she made during a recent interview in Poland. Tokarrczuk reportedly said (machine translated), as reported by My Company Polska: “The reality is that in today’s market, absolutely no publisher would be…
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Pope Leo XIV issues encyclical, ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.’ Calls on AI developers to develop AI for good
Read more: Pope Leo XIV issues encyclical, ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.’ Calls on AI developers to develop AI for goodOn the 135th anniversary of Rerum novarum, Pope Leo XIV issued an encyclical letter on ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.’ While recognizing that AI is a “valuable tool,” The Pope warns of many risks of AI, ranging from environmental impact to encroachments on human dignity and use…
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Judge Blumenfeld Jr. rejects motions to dismiss of Shanghai Xiyu Jizki Tech. Co. & Nanoble. Disney, Universal, Warner Bros. case v. Hailuo AI proceeds.
Read more: Judge Blumenfeld Jr. rejects motions to dismiss of Shanghai Xiyu Jizki Tech. Co. & Nanoble. Disney, Universal, Warner Bros. case v. Hailuo AI proceeds.Judge Blumenfeld Jr. had no trouble denying the motions to dismiss filed by SXJT, “of whichMiniMax is a division or subsidiary, along with their affiliate and/or agent,” and Nanonoble Pte. Ltd., “which operates at the direction and under the control of MiniMax.” The court found it had personal jurisdiction over SXJT and the complaint sufficiently…
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Google claims its AI agents using Gemini 3.5 Flash created a decent operating system by “a single prompt” alone. But does it fail to qualify for copyright then?
Read more: Google claims its AI agents using Gemini 3.5 Flash created a decent operating system by “a single prompt” alone. But does it fail to qualify for copyright then?One of the most fascinating developments in Silicon Valley is the extent to which AI companies are publicly boasting that they used AI agents to generate “100 percent” of the source code for a computer program. In their view, the boast is better if humans did practically nothing. And AI did it all! I’ve written…
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Adding Hobbs v. Meta, latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 113
Read more: Adding Hobbs v. Meta, latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 113Whenever we share an updated map of the copyright suits against AI companies, another lawsuit is filed. Sure enough, yesterday, another book author suit was filed against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, similar to the Elsevier lawsuit. But this suit also names two former Meta research scientists, Joelle Pineau and Guillaume Lampler. This may be a…
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Hobbs v. Meta: book authors sue Meta’s former AI research scientists Joelle Pineau & Guillaume Lampler, in addition to Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
Read more: Hobbs v. Meta: book authors sue Meta’s former AI research scientists Joelle Pineau & Guillaume Lampler, in addition to Meta and Mark ZuckerbergWell, it was bound to happen. The 113th U.S. copyright lawsuit against an AI company now is going after the AI research scientists allegedly involved in the training of AI models. The only other one, Concord Music v. Anthropic II, at least was limited to co-founders of the company Anthropic, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann.…
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Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 112 (May 22, 2026)
Read more: Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 112 (May 22, 2026)We added 12 lawsuits since our last map. We also reorganized some of the lawsuits in the Northern District of California, clustering some of them by defendants. DOWNLOAD THE PDF with links to each docket: