News Supreme Court agrees to hear record labels’ piracy case against Cox Communications, in pivotal moment for music industry If the top court sides with Cox, it could mean internet providers will be shielded from lawsuits over piracy by their subscribers
News Court shoots down Sarah Silverman’s case against Meta’s AI – but declares using copyrighted works for training is NOT ‘fair use’ The latest ruling contradicts another ruling on AI and fair use, issued by a different judge in the same court just two days earlier
News Court rules Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train AI is ‘fair use’ – but it may not have much bearing on music rightsholders’ case against platform’s Claude Copyright owners can't prevent their works for being used for training, a California judge has ruled, but using pirated copies is another story
News Meta sued for alleged ‘rampant infringement’ of Eminem songs on Facebook, Instagram Eight Mile Style alleges that Meta doesn't have a license to including Eminem songs in its social media music libraries
News Ed Sheeran urges US Supreme Court to reject appeal of ‘Thinking Out Loud’ copyright case Overruling a lower court’s decision could lead to “rampant” speculative copyright lawsuits, Sheeran’s lawyers argue
News Anthropic lawyers apologize to court over AI ‘hallucination’ in copyright battle with music publishers Anthropic's lawyers say the Claude chatbot didn't invent a research paper out of thin air, but it did mis-name the paper and its authors
News Music publishers file amended lawsuit against AI firm Anthropic, which they say ‘bolsters the case’ over company’s ‘unauthorized use of song lyrics’ Music publishers have refiled their legal complaint against Anthropic, and the AI company has once again moved to have the case dismissed
News Jimmy Page sued for alleged copyright infringement over ‘Dazed and Confused’ Singer-songwriter Jake Holmes says Page violated an agreement that recognized Holmes as the creator of the original version of 'Dazed and Confused'
News Miley Cyrus’ motion to dismiss copyright lawsuit over ‘Flowers’ denied by court If the court had accepted Cyrus' lawyers' argument, then copyright "could never be enforced" once the original authors sold their rights, the judge said
News Sony Music sues University of Southern California over music used in social media posts Lawyers for Sony provided a list of 283 USC social media posts they say violated the company's copyrights
News George Clinton sues former business partner for allegedly withholding royalties and other claims The funk music legend’s lawsuit describes former business partner Armen Boladian as a “copyright troll”
News Sarah Silverman’s Meta copyright lawsuit advances as judge allows authors’ DMCA claims Three authors including Silverman accused Meta of copying their copyrighted materials to train the company’s large language model LLaMA
News Ed Sheeran’s second ‘Thinking Out Loud’ copyright case appealed to US Supreme Court Owners of part of the rights to Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On' are making a last-ditch effort to appeal the long-running case to the US's top court
News Chloe Bailey hit with copyright infringement suit over ‘Trouble In Paradise’ tracks Singer, songwriter and producer 4Rest is seeking punitive damages of $5 million per track for three tracks on Chloe's second album
News Record companies in India want to join a lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI News organizations, book publishers, and now music companies want to join a copyright infringement suit against OpenAI being heard by a court in Delhi