Intellectual Property News

Big Tech giant Google accepted a fine of 250 million euros from the French competition authorities on the grounds of a breach of EU copyright laws during AI training.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Copyright Office jointly concluded that existing IP laws cover emerging technologies such as NFTs.

In an in-depth interview, Recording Academy advocacy and public policy chief officer Todd Dupler explains how the ELVIS Act could combat the misuse of a person’s voice, image and likeness using AI.

Road House scriptwriter Lance Hill sued Amazon Studios for alleged misuse of AI and copyright infringement during the movie’s upcoming remake.

The “hacking” OpenAI mentions in the filing could also be called prompt engineering or “red-teaming,” according to The New York Times’ attorney.

The Tennessee House Banking and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee has passed a bill aimed at safeguarding musicians from AI infringement, with unanimous support.

Jana Bertram, head of strategy at RARI Foundation, tells The Agenda podcast that the use cases for NFTs go well beyond digital art.

Computer scientist Dr. Stephen Thaler attempted to file two patent applications in the name of an AI model he created.

Grimes’ manager Daouda Leonard and music platform Slip.stream explain the importance of artists owning their data and controlling their rights to stay ahead in their approach to AI.

Universal Music Group, Concord Publishing and ABKCO Music & Records allege that Anthropic “unlawfully” copied and disseminated “vast amounts of copyrighted works” from them.

The new partnership between Universal Music Group and BandLab Technologies focuses on ethical AI usage to protect artist and songwriter rights.

Google argued in its motion to dismiss the claims that using publicly available information shared on the internet is not “stealing,” as claimed.

The Author’s Guild opened a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging misuse of copyrighted material in training of its AI models.

Can Ansay, founder of AI streaming and marketplace platform Musixy, says AI-generated music is revolutionary, brings efficiency and lowers costs to productions.

The Record Academy executive clearly stated that the track is “not eligible” and cited that the vocals were not legally obtained nor were they cleared by the label or artist.