Page 8: Research news on AI copyright law

AI copyright law addresses how existing and emerging intellectual property regimes apply to the training and deployment of generative AI systems. Central issues include whether large-scale scraping of copyrighted works for model training constitutes infringement or fair use, how rights holders are compensated or licensed, and what transparency obligations apply to training data. The field also examines liability for AI-generated outputs that mimic protected content, personal likeness, or trademarks, and explores new regulatory and contractual frameworks for revenue sharing and data access control.

Business

Reddit sues AI giant Anthropic over content use

Social media outlet Reddit filed a lawsuit Wednesday against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, accusing the startup of illegally scraping millions of user comments to train its Claude chatbot without permission or ...

Machine learning & AI

New York Times signs AI licensing deal with Amazon

The New York Times has agreed a deal for Amazon to use its content to train artificial intelligence models, the leading U.S. newspaper announced Thursday in its first generative AI licensing deal.

Internet

German court says Meta can use user data to train AI

A German court on Friday dismissed an injunction request brought by consumer protection groups to prevent US tech giant Meta from using user data from Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence systems.

Business

Meta faces row over plan to use European data for AI

A Vienna-based privacy campaign group said Wednesday it has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta, after the tech giant announced plans to train its artificial intelligence models with European users' personal data.

Internet

British govt suffers setback in AI copyright battle

The British government suffered a setback to its plans to make it easier for AI companies to access data as the House of Lords backed more protection for content creators on Monday.

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