AI

AI companies accused of ‘largest domestic piracy of IP in our nation’s history’ at congressional hearing led by MAGA Republican

At Meta, 'Mark Zuckerberg himself made the call' to pirate vast amounts of copyrighted material

Universal Music applauds Cloudflare move to block ‘AI crawlers’ from accessing content without permission or compensation

Cloudflare's move could create a new licensing marketplace for content owners and AI companies

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

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

Warner Music Brazil brings back voice of samba legend Cleber Augusto through AI

Augusto lost his voice following throat cancer surgery more than two decades ago

From Trump firing top copyright official to SoundCloud ‘fixing’ AI policy… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…

SoundCloud addresses AI clause in terms of service, says it ‘has never used artist content to train AI models’

Fairly Trained founder Ed Newton-Rex spotted the update, which went largely unnoticed since it was rolled out in February 2024

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt: AI that is ‘as smart as the smartest artist’ will be here in 3 to 5 years

Schmidt predicts AI that is 'as smart as the smartest mathematician, physicist, artist, writer, thinker, politician...'

South Korea’s largest music copyright collective just banned registration of songs created with AI

KOMCA’s decision comes at a time when lawmakers and courts around the world are grappling with the issue of copyrighting AI-made works

From Amazon’s Suno tie-up to Kobalt’s new publishing platform… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…

HYBE’s AI voice cloning company Supertone unveils text-to-speech tool that can create a custom voice ‘in just 10 seconds’

Supertone says its tool includes safeguards to prevent it from being used in deepfakes

Can AI-generated content be copyrighted? Here’s what a new report from the US Copyright Office says…

A work that combines human creativity with AI can be copyrighted, so long as there is a “sufficient” amount of human expression

UMG’s Frank Briegmann advocates for robust copyright protection on ‘AI and Content Creation’ panel at Davos

Exec spoke on the 'AI and Content Creation' panel at the World Economic Forum event

YouTube partners with Creative Artists Agency on AI deepfake recognition tools

“CAA’s clients’ direct experience with digital replicas... will be critical in shaping a tool that responsibly empowers and protects creators"

Merlin tells tech companies not to use its members’ music to train AI without authorization

Using Merlin members' music to train AI requires “explicit written authorization,” the organization has declared