Global music industry body warns Australia against weakening AI copyright law
IFPI chief executive Victoria Oakley says Australia risks weakening protections for creative work if it loosens copyright rules for AI companies.
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New York Times sues Brave over alleged content scraping
The New York Times alleges Brave scraped copyrighted content and distributed it to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity and xAI.
AI articles appear under former Esports Insider writer’s byline
Press Gazette found casino articles published under a former Esports Insider writer’s name after he had left the company.
Publishers, advertisers ask EU and U.K. regulators to suspend Meta terms
The Movement for an Open Web wants regulators to pause Meta’s new commercial terms before they take effect Oct. 30.
AI-native newsrooms run by autonomous agents are already publishing news
Outlets in Canada, Croatia, Italy and the U.S. are using AI agents for reporting, writing and editing, with varying levels of human review.
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Publishers face Oct. 30 deadline over Meta’s updated crawling terms
Campaigners are urging publishers to review Meta’s new commercial terms before they take effect Oct. 30.
Meta’s new business terms could allow news-site scraping for AI training
Meta’s updated commercial terms could give the company a new argument for scraping websites tied to business accounts, legal experts say.
NYT, AFP and The Economist join SPUR coalition on AI content use
More than 40 publishers joined SPUR, expanding the coalition to over 80 members across more than 20 countries.
OpenAI starts text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex for EU users
OpenAI will add invisible text watermarks to eligible ChatGPT and Codex outputs in the European Union, while API customers can opt in globally.
SPUR releases AI content tracking standard, invites tech firms to advisory board
The publisher coalition wants a common way to track when AI systems retrieve, use, cite and present publisher content.