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.
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.
USA Today Co. sues OpenAI for $250 million over use of articles from 19 publications
USA Today Co. seeks $250 million, alleging OpenAI used hundreds of thousands of articles without permission or payment.
Publishers finally have AI buyers but no say in the price
A real market for AI inference is forming, with payment rails to match. What publishers still lack is leverage.
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Judge dismisses Chegg, Penske antitrust suits over Google AI Overviews
The publishers argued Google used its search power to obtain content for AI products without compensation. A federal judge rejected their claims.
Appeals court upholds Thomson Reuters AI copyright win
The 3rd Circuit upheld Thomson Reuters’ win in the first federal appeals case rejecting fair use for AI training on publisher content.
Unsealed OpenAI emails bolster NYT copyright case
Internal messages on substitution and paywalls give the Times fresh ammunition, while broader publisher leverage still depends on the court.
Microsoft researcher called AI training the ‘largest theft of labor in human history’
Internal Microsoft comments surfaced in an unsealed New York Times brief seeking to hold Microsoft and OpenAI liable for unauthorized copying.
Publishers don’t need to trust AI companies to work with them
The instinct to block AI bots understandable, but verifying bots protects your content while letting you compete for AI visibility.