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Startups

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

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
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Telcos, Media & Tech

Perplexity seeks news allies as it challenges Google

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.
Lifestyle

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

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.”
Telcos, Media & Tech

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

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.
Opinion & Features
EDITORIAL

In AI-copyright battle, an existential crisis emerges

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

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

Complicating the concept of data dignity is the fact that it is impossible to distinguish meaningfully between “training” current AI models and “generating output” in the style of a particular creator.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

AI’s copyright problem is fixable

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