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.
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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Electronics & Semiconductors
Toy makers at the Consumer Electronics Show were adamant about being careful to ensure that their fun creations infused with generative artificial intelligence don't turn naughty.
Jan 11, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
The world's largest tech showcase does not come without theatrics. Innovations and gadgets like a lollipop that sings to you as you consume it, a laundry-folding robot and a "smart" LEGO brick have stolen the spotlight so ...
Jan 7, 2026
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Business
As generative AI systems become more deeply woven into the fabric of modern life—drafting text, generating images, summarizing news—debates over who should profit from the technology are intensifying.
Dec 22, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Generative AIs may not be as creative as we assume. Publishing in the journal Patterns, researchers show that when image-generating and image-describing AIs pass the same descriptive scene back and forth, they quickly veer ...
Dec 19, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Does the latest track by your favorite singer sound slightly off? You may be right. Fraudulent AI-generated tracks are increasingly appearing in artists' own profiles on streaming platforms, presented as their original work.
Dec 16, 2025
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