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Unredacted filings in the NYT lawsuit reveal Copilot cut click-throughs to nytimes.com by 93% and OpenAI datasets held 91,692 copies of publisher works.
Writers say HarperCollins and others are claiming shares of the $1.5B fund on books whose rights reverted years ago.
Two more regional US newspapers join the growing list of publishers taking OpenAI and Microsoft to court over training data.
A 20-page DOJ filing argues fair use covers LLM training, siding with OpenAI against The New York Times in the Southern District of New York.
The Justice Department's statement of interest argues a Times win would 'thwart' American AI leadership and misread fair use doctrine.
A new filing surfaces internal messages including 'Zlibrary my beloved' as evidence Anthropic knowingly trained Claude on pirated material.
Anthropic's $1.5B settlement is the largest copyright payout ever; suits against Google, Meta, Stability, and Suno keep multiplying.
The largest copyright payout in U.S. history closes one case but leaves the fair-use question open for OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Midjourney.
Sony seeks up to $150,000 per work after a judge blocked it from adding the tracks to the original 2024 case against the AI music generator.
Hacked source code reveals the AI music generator pulled from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, and IMSLP, backing a key RIAA allegation.
A November 2025 breach at the AI music generator surfaced code pointing to YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius as training sources.
News plaintiffs say OpenAI concealed pre-searched log samples for two years while claiming the searches were technically infeasible.
Court filings allege OpenAI already searched its own training data and kept a 78 million-conversation database before claiming it couldn't.
The startup wants to prove the studios train on unlicensed content too — a fair-use defense that turns discovery into the battlefield.
The Times reframes its contributory infringement claim after a Supreme Court ruling for Cox, alleging Microsoft built the system to train on its articles.
A federal judge delayed final approval after class members called the $3,000-per-author payout a 'pittance' next to lawyer fees.
The proposed deal would resolve a class action alleging Anthropic trained Claude on pirated books, pending court approval.
Cartoonist KC Green says Artisan put his 2013 burning-dog meme on an ad for 'Ava the AI BDR' without permission and is hunting for a lawyer.
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