Tag: intellectual property

• Global Value of Music Copyright Hits New All-Time High, Nearly Doubling in a Decade to $47.2bn in 2024 — Pivotal Economics

  January 10, 2026

  Global Value of Music Copyright Hits New All-Time High, Nearly Doubling in a Decade to $47.2bn in 2024 https://pivotaleconomics.com/undercurrents/music-copyright-2025 more ›

• Variety

  July 29, 2025

  Eros International and director Aanand L. Rai clash over AI-altered ‘Raanjhanaa’ ending, with both sides citing legal rights and creative ethics. https://variety.com/2025/film/news/eros-aanand-l-rai-dispute-ai-altered-raanjhanaa-ending-1236470128/?utm_source=semafor more ›

• The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs | The Verge

  June 24, 2025

  With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/686767/music-industry-ai-song-detection-tracking-licensing more ›

• The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

  March 22, 2025

  Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the… more ›

• Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US

  February 12, 2025

  Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the United States. In 2020, the media and technology conglomerate filed an unprecedented AI copyright lawsuit against the legal… more ›

• Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

  February 1, 2025

  In early 2023, the Copyright Office launched an initiative examining copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI), including the scope of copyright in AI-generated works and the… more ›

• Copyright Office Offers Assurances on AI Filmmaking Tools

  January 30, 2025

  The U.S. Copyright Office declared Wednesday that the use of artificial intelligence tools to assist in the creative process does not undermine the copyright of a work. https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/copyright-ai-tools-filmmaking-studios-office-1236288969/ more ›

• Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

  June 24, 2024

  As a result of book publishers successfully suing the Internet Archive (IA) last year, the free online library that strives to keep growing online access to books recently shrank by… more ›

• Marvel sues to retain control of Avengers characters

  September 27, 2021

  Marvel has filed a series of lawsuits in a bid to retain full control of characters including Spider-Man and Iron Man. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/27/marvel-sues-to-retain-control-of-avengers-characters-spider-man-iron-man more ›