copyright law

Anthropic’s book-scanning operation, known internally as Project Panama, exposes a starkly physical side of the generative AI race: millions of paper books bought in bulk, mechanically disbound, fed through industrial scanners, digitized for use in building Claude, and then recycled. The newly...

Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, novelist Scott Turow and his company S.C.R.I.B.E. have sued Google, alleging that millions of copyrighted books and journal articles were copied without permission to train its Gemini AI models. The proposed class action seeks statutory damages...

ByteDance’s sudden pause of Seedance 2.0’s global launch is the clearest sign yet that generative video has crossed from experimental novelty into an industry‑level legal and ethical crisis, and the brief saga around a viral AI clip showing Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt trading blows crystallizes the...

Paul Thurrott’s site has quietly—and unambiguously—reasserted that the content it publishes is proprietary and intended for personal, non‑commercial use only, explicitly forbidding automated scraping, bulk copying, and any reuse that would act as a “source of or substitute for the Service.”...

Microsoft quietly took down a developer blog this month after critics pointed out that the tutorial linked to a Kaggle dataset containing the full Harry Potter novels—files that had been wrongly labeled “public domain”—and used those texts as an example corpus for training an AI-powered Q&A and...

The Ninth Circuit’s decision to take interlocutory review of a narrow but consequential question under Section 1202(b) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act — whether plaintiffs must plead an identicality link between protected works and generative‑AI outputs to state a DMCA claim against...