Generative AI copyright concerns the legal and ethical governance of AI systems that produce artistic and entertainment content, including images, film, music, voice, and performances. Work in this area examines how training and deploying such models affects copyright ownership, fair use, and derivative works, as well as performers’ and celebrities’ rights to their image and voice. It also addresses labor protections, contractual frameworks, and industry guidelines that regulate compensation, disclosure, and permissible AI uses in media production.
Machine learning & AI
A new artificial intelligence video generator from Beijing-based ByteDance, the creator of TikTok, is drawing the ire of Hollywood organizations that say Seedance 2.0 "blatantly" violates copyright and uses the likeness of ...
Feb 16, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
It rarely takes long before new media technologies are turned to the task of creating pornography. This was true of the printing press, photography, and the earliest days of the internet. It's also true of generative artificial ...
Feb 13, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
As with all creative industries, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been infiltrating video games.
Feb 11, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial intelligence. Near as the editors could tell, many submitters pasted the magazine's ...
Feb 7, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
EU lawmakers on Wednesday demanded artificial intelligence providers pay for their use of copyrighted European content as they called for expanded rules to apply to generative AI.
Jan 28, 2026
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Internet
YouTube announced plans on Wednesday to allow its users this year to create AI versions of themselves for video sharing, matching a feature from Sora, the video-creation app from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.
Jan 21, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
For as long as humans have buried their dead, they've dreamed of keeping them close. The ancient Fayum portraits—those stunningly lifelike images wrapped in Egyptian mummies—captured faces meant to remain present even after ...
Jan 19, 2026
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Internet
The self-described "Bush Legend" on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram is growing in popularity.
Jan 15, 2026
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Business
Actor Matthew McConaughey has filed recordings of his image and voice with US patent authorities to protect them from unauthorized usage by artificial intelligence platforms, a representative said Wednesday.
Jan 15, 2026
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Security
A short, seemingly harmless command is all it takes to use Elon Musk's chatbot Grok to turn public photos into revealing images—without the consent of the people depicted. For weeks, users have been flooding the platform ...
Jan 14, 2026
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