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”
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
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
‘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
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...
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.
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...
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.
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. ...
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...