Spotify Strikes AI Music Deal With UMG, Stock Surges
Spotify and Universal Music Group sign the first upfront AI licensing deal between a major streaming platform and a label for fan-made covers and remixes, sending SPOT shares up 14%.
Articles Tagged "Copyright"
Artisan Ran an AI Ad With a Meme It Never Licensed
AI startup Artisan used KC Green's 'This Is Fine' meme in subway ads without permission, drawing a sharp response from the artist and raising questions about AI companies and creator rights.
Academy's New Rules Bar AI Performances and Scripts
The Academy banned AI-generated actors and human-authored scripts from the 99th Oscars, codifying union positions just weeks after the WGA secured its new four-year studio deal.
Deezer: 44% of New Music Uploads Are AI-Generated
Deezer now receives 75,000 AI-generated tracks a day, 44% of all new uploads, while AI music accounts for just 1-3% of total streams and 85% of those are flagged as fraud.
claw-code Hits 100K Stars After Claude Code Npm Leak
A missing .npmignore entry in Claude Code 2.1.88 exposed 512,000 lines of TypeScript source, spawned the fastest-growing GitHub repo ever, and revealed unshipped features Anthropic never announced.
GitHub Copilot Will Train on Your Code This April
Starting April 24, GitHub will use Copilot Free and Pro users' interaction data to train AI models by default - with opt-out buried in settings.
Blackburn's 300-Page AI Bill Ends Fair Use for Training
A 300-page Senate discussion draft would declare AI training on copyrighted works is not fair use, sunset Section 230, and preempt 38 state AI laws.
Britannica Sues OpenAI - 100,000 Copied Articles Alleged
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster filed suit against OpenAI in a New York federal court, alleging ChatGPT copied nearly 100,000 articles and dictionary entries without a license.
AI Scrapers Are DDoSing Self-Hosted GitLab Servers
AI training crawlers from Anthropic, Google, and OVHcloud knocked a French national research institute's GitLab server offline for hours - nobody at CNRS's Institute of Complex Systems could work.
ByteDance Halts Seedance 2.0 Over Hollywood IP Fight
ByteDance suspended the global launch of its AI video model Seedance 2.0 after Disney, Paramount Skydance, and other studios sent cease-and-desist letters alleging copyright infringement.
Meta Signs $150M Deal to License News Corp Content for AI
Meta will pay News Corp up to $50 million per year for three years to license Wall Street Journal and other content for Meta AI training and chatbot responses.
Ask Claude Sonnet 4.6 What Model It Is in Chinese - It Says DeepSeek
Claude Sonnet 4.6 identifies itself as DeepSeek when prompted in Chinese, just one day after Anthropic accused DeepSeek of industrial-scale distillation attacks. The cause is training data contamination, not an identity crisis - but the timing is spectacular.
