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Comcast threatens to sue TorrentFreak blog for publishing public court docs

The phrase “Internet bullying” is most often applied to the online cruelty of teenagers, but Comcast is proving that large corporations can be just as guilty, Goliaths threatening the powerless and...

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Go thou and steal no more: Treehouse’s latest tool navigates online copyright

Creative CommonsHere’s a new course from Treehouse on how to copyright your web work — and how to use others’ images, code, etc. without getting yourself into legal hot water. The Treehouse lessons,...

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Music streaming site Vevo to launch in Germany… but without YouTube

VevoMusic streaming site Vevo, which is run by some of the largest music companies such as Sony Music and Universal Music, is to roll out in Germany without YouTube as a partner. Founded in 2009,...

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Google+ brings attribution and embeds to make sure you get credit where it’s due

Jolie O'Dell/VentureBeatGoogle's Seth Sternberg.SAN FRANCISCO — This morning, Google+ is bringing two important features to its platform: attribution and post embedding. These feature might seem small,...

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Copyright pirates could lose their Internet access via AT&T

Flickr user Uncle CatherineUpdated 9/16 with clarifications via AT&T, and a correction. If you’re an AT&T Internet customer and the company believes you have been violating copyright law, the...

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New ‘eraser bill’ may give California teens a false sense of security

America 2050/ FlickrSenator Darrell Steinberg wrote the bill to protect children who act impetuously Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed the...

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Supreme Court to review Aereo v. ABC copyright case

Aereo investor Barry Diller.The U.S. Supreme Court will hear broadcasters’ challenges to “TV anywhere” startup Aereo. According to Adweek, at stake is the future of streaming video on the Internet and...

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How Washington will affect tech in 2014: 5 policy issues to watch

Orhan Cam / ShutterstockIt seems that every year has gotten busier and busier in the world of tech policy — and that’s generally a good thing. This morning’s news that a federal court has struck down...

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Developer still struggling with YouTube over copyright claim on video of his...

Jeff Grubb/GamesBeatHere's your problem right here -- Content ID is set to "evil."You can own something, put it on YouTube, and still get a copyright-violation notice. YouTube’s copyright-protection...

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Vimeo teams up with Chilling Effects to publicly track copyright complaints

Video sharing site Vimeo is getting more transparent about copyright complaints today with a new partnership. The company has joined the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse project, which publicly tracks...

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Copyrighting player-generated content in video games

GUEST: Last year, consumers spent more than $21 billion on the video game industry. The Entertainment Software Association reports that almost 60 percent of Americans — roughly 200 million people —...

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The crazy copyright that keeps MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech locked up

As millions of netizens visit the home pages of Google, Yahoo, and Hulu on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, his famous “I Have a Dream” Speech will be conspicuously absent. The audio, video, and text...

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Vimeo wins U.S. appeal in music copyright case

(Reuters) — Video-sharing website Vimeo LLC cannot be held liable for copyright infringement for unknowingly hosting older music uploaded by its users, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday, dealing a...

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Canada pushes back against U.S. copyright demands in NAFTA

The third round of negotiations over the modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is underway right now in Ottawa, and EFF is there to represent you. It’s been a frustrating few...

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EU Parliament set to vote on copyright bill that’s causing a massive...

Members of the European Parliament are preparing to vote on a set of copyright rules that supporters are hailing as a new dawn for beleaguered creatives and critics are warning will spell doom for the...

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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office wants your opinion on AI inventions

The U.S. Patent and Trademark's Office wants public comment on patenting artificial intelligence inventions and how AI may reshape intellectual property.Read More

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6 tech policy issues you should be following

With the revelation that the government is now — legally —  collecting phone records and data from the top U.S. tech companies, it’s time to begin paying attention to the most pressing tech policies...

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Chinese court rules AI-written article is protected by copyright

A court in Shenzhen, China, has ruled that an article produced by AI is protected by copyright, representing a notable milestone for AI as a creative force. Read More

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NFTs and copyright: An uncomfortable conjunction?

When NFTs of art and other digital objects are sold, the copyright stays with the original owner and does not get transferred to the buyer.Read More

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The perks and pitfalls of creating prolific AI inventors

As more AI “invents,” they may become prolific inventors of the future. If patents are granted, who should get the rewards?Read More

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Adobe bets on generative AI with ‘Firefly’ tool to create images from text

Adobe announced a series of AI initiatives on Tuesday, including Firefly, a generative AI tool that generates images using text prompts.Read More

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OpenAI seeks to dismiss majority of Sarah Silverman’s and authors’ claims in...

OpenAI asserted that fair use can accommodate innovations like LLMs, and is aligned with the constitutional intent of copyright.Read More

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Meet Phi-1.5, the new language model that could make training AI radically...

By generating curated, high quality, synthetic data using existing LLMs and training a new model on this, the researchers are able to achieveRead More

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Metaphysic Pro wants performers to copyright, manage, and monetize their...

Metaphysic, for its part, believes its approach allows actors to retain control over their likeness — giving them the power and legal right.Read More

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Researchers turn to Harry Potter to make AI forget about copyrighted material

Their unlearning technique may also be more effective for fictional texts than non-fiction, since fictional worlds contain more unique...Read More

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Major music publishers sue Anthropic for copyright infringement over song lyrics

This lawsuit follows Amazon’s massive $4 billion investment into the San Francisco-based LLM development company.Read More

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Midjourney, Stability AI and DeviantArt win a victory in copyright case by...

The AI image generator companies filed a motion to dismiss the copyright case against them by artists, and Orrick largely granted it.Read More

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FTC takes shots at AI in rare filing to US Copyright Office 

Critics are accusing the FTC of overstepping its bounds and ultimately undermining the long-held legal doctrine of Fair Use.Read More

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The copyright case against AI art generators just got stronger with more...

AI art generators did rely on human-made artworks — including likely some copyrighted artworks — to train their models.Read More

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Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for...

The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.Read More

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