Copyright law

Singapore inventor wins High Court suit against rivals who passed off similar doors as his design

The Malaysian company by Ng’s former employee Goh Song Guan, manufactures a similar slide-and-swing door known as “SD Door”

Under the agreement, Anthropic will destroy the original pirated files and any copies made, though the company retains rights to books it legally purchased and scanned.

AI giant Anthropic to pay US$1.5 billion over pirated books

The settlement, which requires judicial approval, comes as artificial intelligence companies face growing legal pressure over their training practices

Social media is both a boon and bane for luxury fashion brands. Images and videos of new designs unveiled at the seasonal runway shows are widely circulated just minutes after, or even streamed simultaneously. While this can boost sales, it also gives fast fashion copyists immediate access to the designs.
THE BROAD VIEW

While creatives fight AI, fashion may profit from its ‘negative space’

In a world demanding protection from GenAI, fashion’s low-IP zone offers some surprising lessons

Elton John has sold more than 300 million records over a six-decade career.

‘Criminal’: Elton John condemns UK’s AI copyright plans

The government says it is seeking a solution that will enable creative industries and AI companies to flourish

SAS has filed another lawsuit against Sheeran based on its rights in Gaye’s recording.

Ed Sheeran beats copyright appeal over ‘Thinking Out Loud’ song

ED SHEERAN, his record label Warner Music and music publisher Sony Music Publishing persuaded a US appeals court on Friday (Nov 1) to uphold a decision that his 2014 hit Thinking Out Loud did not ille...

Unlike ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity’s tool provides up-to-date answers that often include links to source materials, allowing users to verify information.

Perplexity seeks news allies as it challenges Google

PERPLEXITY AI chief Aravind Srinivas said on Wednesday that he hopes to collaborate with news publishers which accuse the Google challenger of freeloading off their work.

Some 11,500 stars of music, literature, screen and stage had put their names to the statement by Tuesday, as fears mount over tech companies using existing creative works to train up AI models without permission from their original creators.

Abba’s Bjorn among 11,000 artists issuing AI warning

THOUSANDS of artists including Abba singer Bjorn Ulvaeus, Hollywood actress Julianne Moore and Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro have signed a statement warning about the unlicensed use of artificial inte...

The lawsuit in a federal court in New York accuses Perplexity of illegally copying and reproducing copyrighted content from the "Wall Street Journal" and the "New York Post" to power its AI-driven “answer engine.”

WSJ, New York Post sue Nvidia, Bezos-backed Perplexity AI for massive copyright infringement

THE Wall Street Journal and the New York Post filed a lawsuit in a US court on Monday against AI company Perplexity AI, alleging massive copyright infringement and trademark violations.

The US Copyright Office has rejected various copyright applications for art created using AI. “Human creation” is required for something to qualify as a piece of authorship deserving of protection.
EDITORIAL

In AI-copyright battle, an existential crisis emerges

WHEN our artificial intelligence (AI) overlords finally subjugate the human race and start generating self-aggrandising paeans to the robot regime, mankind might at least get some songwriting credit. ...

Some copyright holders have cut deals with OpenAI for using their work.

AI chatbots sucked up troves of data. Now copyright holders want a cut

How do ChatGPT and other chatbots generate written works, images and music to rival the output of a talented human? By ingesting content that people already created and identifying patterns in the mat...