Canadian news publishers sue OpenAI over copyright infringement
Five Canadian news media publishers have sued OpenAI Inc. for breaching copyright by scraping content to train artificial intelligence products like ChatGPT — opening another front against the $157 billion startup.
Torstar Corp...
AI users could cough up for copyright violations
Generative artificial intelligence has been hailed for its potential to transform creativity, and especially by lowering the barriers to content creation.
While the creative potential of generative AI tools has often been highlighted, the...
Sony sues Internet Archive for posting old copyrighted songs online
Sony Music Entertainment and five other major music companies sued the non-profit Internet Archive, saying that its posting of thousands of old songs and recordings online amounts to “wholesale theft” of copyright-protected...
Telegram shares pirates' details with book author
Popular messaging app Telegram has provided Indian authorities with the names, phone numbers and IP addresses of channel admins on its platform accused of copyright infringement, LiveLaw India reports.
The development comes after the Delhi High...
US Navy found guilty of piracy
A court has ordered the US Navy to pay a company $154,400 (R2.61 million) for using its 3D virtual reality software on hundreds of PCs without valid licences, Gizmodo reports.
Bitmanagement Software GmbH first filed the lawsuit in 2016, initially seeking...
More Internet piracy criminal charges in SA
Safact is casting its net wider, after a case it recently brought against a Cape Flats man resulted in him pleading guilty to criminal Internet piracy charges
First Internet pirate court case in South Africa update
SAFACT has provided an update on the court case involving South Africa’s first person accused of online piracy
Copyright owners can’t sue YouTube as a group: judge
A US judge denied class-action status to copyright owners suing Google over the use of material posted on YouTube without their permission
P2P file-sharers buy more music
A public opinion survey has revealed that Americans overwhelmingly oppose disconnection and rate-limiting as penalty for illegal file-sharing.
Kim Dotcom launches Mega.co.nz, successor to Megaupload
The mega.co.nz website went live on the anniversary of armed police raids which saw him arrested and Megaupload shuttered.
Dotcom says "cyberlocker" is legal, not revenge for Megaupload
Kim Dotcom, founder of file-sharing website Megaupload, said his new “cyberlocker” is not a way to exact revenge on the US authorities
News outlets infringed copyright by using photos posted to Twitter
A judge has found that two news organizations improperly used images that a photojournalist had posted to Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0&feature=player_embedded
A very well thought-out TED Talk on Copyright math - some fun comparisons and a strong tongue-in-cheek.