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ein noch relativ frischer Aufsatz zum italienischen Sonderweg in Sachen freier Zugang zu gemeinfreiem Kulturgut: Sappa, C., Bossi, L. Postcards from Italy – The Art of Controlling Images of Cultural Goods Better Than Copyright Could. IIC 56, 320–368 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-025-01565-w

A judge rejects Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement over concerns that class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced on authors (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-ju…

Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (1)
The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced “down the throat of authors.”

A judge rejects Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement over concerns that class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced on authors (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-ju…

Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (1)
The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced “down the throat of authors.”

Burger King's parent company has come under fire for allegedly using copyright law to suppress a researcher who uncovered serious security flaws in its drive-through ordering technology.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/s…

Burger King accused of silencing security researcher with copyright claim
Burger King's parent company has come under fire for allegedly using copyright law to suppress a researcher who uncovered serious security flaws in its drive-through ...

I would be happy if the AI industry actually had to pay authors for their work in accumulating ideas and knowledge and expressing them via their copyrighted works (registered copyright or not.)
The AI industry is whining "we are so big, we need to violate the law, we need to steal the work of others without even the pretense of compensating them, oh woe are we, oh woe are we".
There is a gap in our laws of copyright. Copyright covers expression, patents cover ideas. B…

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

This is genuinely interesting. I’m unsure what it amounts to in practice — protection against abuse, empty symbolic gesture, salvo against big tech, morass of unintended consequences, who knows — but I’m watching with interest.
More:
https://lsj.com.au/articles/denmark-proposes-copyright-laws-to-protect-against-deepfakes/
https://www.globallawtoday.com/law/legal-news/2025/06/denmarks-groundbreaking-move-copyright-for-faces-and-voices/ https://mas.to/@Ask_aubry/115103921690064624

"an ad‑blocker may infringe website copyright, even though it merely prevents certain content from being displayed. " lol fuck off german courts
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/115014296848731343

Develop-Fair Use for Artificial Intelligence: A Sino-U.S. Copyright Law Comparison Based on the Ultraman, Bartz v. Anthropic, and Kadrey v. Meta Cases
Chanhou Lou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07365

Develop-Fair Use for Artificial Intelligence: A Sino-U.S. Copyright Law Comparison Based on the Ultraman, Bartz v. Anthropic, and Kadrey v. Meta Cases
Traditional fair use can no longer respond to the challenges posed by generative AI. Drawing on a comparative analysis of China's Ultraman and the U.S. cases Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta, this article proposes "Develop-Fair Use" (DFU). DFU treats AI fair use (AIFU) not as a fixed exception but as a dynamic tool of judicial balancing that shifts analysis from closed scenarios to an evaluative rule for open-ended contexts. The judicial focus moves from formal classification of facts to a…

China's new AI content labeling law goes into effect, as part of a broad effort to address AI-related risks such as misinformation and copyright infringement (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3

China’s social media sites rush to abide by AI-generated content labelling law
The law requires explicit and implicit labels for AI-generated text, images, audio, video and other virtual content.

China's new AI content labeling law goes into effect, as part of a broad effort to address AI-related risks such as misinformation and copyright infringement (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3

China’s social media sites rush to abide by AI-generated content labelling law
The law requires explicit and implicit labels for AI-generated text, images, audio, video and other virtual content.

Filing: Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/anthro…

Anthropic Settles Major AI Copyright Suit Brought by Authors (1)
Anthropic PBC reached a settlement with authors in a high-stakes copyright class action that threatened the AI company with potentially billions of dollars in damages.

Under US copyright law the ownership of the copyright is in the person who recorded the video onto a tangible medium, the owner is not the speaker/subject who is in the video.
(A nit picker may note that there could be a copyright in the text of a speech if that text had been written down rather than impromptu. But even then, making a video for the purpose of engaging with the content would most likely be protected as a fair use.)
So this raises a question whether this takedown …

“‘It’s obvious that you don’t respect Copyright Law and Artist Rights any more than you respect Habeas Corpus and Due Process rights, not to mention the separation of Church and State per the US Constitution. For the record, we hereby order dhsgov [US Department of Homeland Security] to cease and desist the use of our recording and demand that you immediately pull down your video.’”
“They added: ‘Oh, and go f… yourselves.’”

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club issue cease and desist to US Homeland Security over "improper" use of song in "propaganda video"
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have issued a cease-and-desist notice to US Homeland Security over their use of the band’s music. 

I propose a law that forbids companies from claiming copyright, patents or anything else once they end support for their products.
Then we can do a community rebrand of any hardware and reuse it as we please.

Filing: Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/anthro…

Anthropic Settles Major AI Copyright Suit Brought by Authors (1)
Anthropic PBC reached a settlement with authors in a high-stakes copyright class action that threatened the AI company with potentially billions of dollars in damages.

As the lyricist behind AI artist Xania Monet signs a $3M record deal, experts say current copyright law may only protect the human-made expressive elements (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/785792/…

What happens when an AI-generated artist gets a record deal? A copyright mess
The only human-made element behind Xania Monet’s act appear to be the lyrics.

"Creative Commons is a license that lets the creators of intellectual property define how that property may be used by others. Partially this license is a reaction to the poor way #copyright law is being viewed today...
...gives creators a way to provide for more interaction with their ideas. And this interaction is a great way to market, in the right circumstances. More managers shou…

HathiTrust was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries now preserving 18 million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. We offer reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. and international copyright law, text and data mining tools for the entire corpus, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.

As the lyricist behind AI artist Xania Monet signs a $3M record deal, experts say current copyright law may only protect the human-made expressive elements (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/785792/…

What happens when an AI-generated artist gets a record deal? A copyright mess
The only human-made element behind Xania Monet’s act appear to be the lyrics.

The Motion Picture Association calls on OpenAI to take "immediate and decisive action" to prevent copyright infringement on its Sora 2 service (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/mpa-ch…

MPA Chief: Open AI “Needs to Take Immediate and Decisive Action” to Prevent IP Infringement On Sora
The lobbying group, which counts all the major studios, called on the tech giant to at least acknowledge that it needs to follow established copyright law.