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  • Senate Bill Tries Again to Make AI Training Transparent

    Vermont senator Peter Welch and three colleagues have reintroduced the Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks (TRAIN) Act, legislation designed to help copyright holders determine whether their works were used to train AI.

  • Trump’s Comments Undermine AI Action Plan, Threaten Copyright

    After the White House released an action plan on artificial intelligence that all but ignored the issue of intellectual property, and the Senate introduced a new bipartisan bill aimed to curb AI companies’ theft of creative work, President Trump said that requiring tech companies to pay to train their models on copyrighted books and other content was “not doable.”

  • Judge Rules Class Action Suit Against Anthropic Can Proceed

    The AI company is believed to have copied up to seven million books from the pirate sites LibGen and PiLiMi. Experts said if the authors win the class action, Anthropic could be facing a billion-dollar settlement.

  • Senate Hearing Debates AI Training on Copyrighted Works

    After hearing testimony from five witnesses, including author David Baldacci, Senator Josh Hawley concluded that if the way tech companies collect content to train their AI models isn’t copyright infringement, then “we need to change the law.”

  • Meta Wins AI Copyright Case, But Judge Writes Roadmap for Authors’ Revenge

    U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria granted summary judgment to Meta in a copyright case brought by 13 authors, saying they offered virtually no proof of how they were harmed by Meta's use of their work, while outlining several ways they might succeed in the future.

  • Federal Judge Rules AI Training Is Fair Use in Anthropic Copyright Case

    A federal judge in California has issued a complicated ruling in one of the first major copyright cases involving AI training, finding that while using books to train AI models constitutes fair use, downloading pirated books was a violation of copyright law.

  • Copyright Chief Fired Amid AI Debate

    The Trump administration fired Shira Perlmutter, the register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, on Saturday—just one day after the dismissal of her boss, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, and the Copyright Office’s release of a preliminary report on generative AI and copyright.

  • As Industry Demands AI Licensing Frameworks, Emerging Tech Can Help

    With generative AI forging ahead unfettered, leaders in publishing and other creative industries are asking for licensing frameworks that protect creators while enabling technological innovation. New platforms and software are bringing solutions closer.

  • Book Biz to Big Tech: Pay Up, Then We Can Make Up

    Artificial intelligence is upending publishing, and industry leaders know there’s no end in sight. That’s why they plan to win key copyright lawsuits—then forge a path forward through Silicon Valley.

  • Publishers See Mixed Messages in Paris AI Summit

    The just-concluded Artificial Intelligence Action Summit did not include copyright protection as one of its six top priorities, to the disappointment of the AAP, but did mention that protection of IP is worthy of “global reflection.”

  • New Government Report Addresses ‘Copyrightability’ of AI Works

    A report from the U.S. Copyright Office determined that works purely generated by AI are not eligible to be copyrighted, but works created by human authors assisted by AI can be given copyright protection.

  • U.K. Authors Weigh In on AI Licensing in New Survey

    Many writers are open to having their works used to train AI models, provided that they give permission and receive fair compensation and credit, according to a survey of 13,574 members of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society in the U.K.

  • An AI Licensing Primer for Book Publishers

    Columnist Ken Brooks argues that when it comes to licensing deals with AI companies, publishers should strike while the iron is hot.

  • CCC Launches Collective Licensing for AI

    Copyright Clearance Center has launched a collective licensing solution for the internal use of copyrighted materials in artificial intelligence systems, with the aim of providing streamlined, legal means to use content and compensate creators.

  • European Publishers Praise New EU AI Law

    The Federation of European Publishers was among 200 organizations to praise the passage of new European Union legislation requiring that AI companies respect copyright law and offer transparency about what materials are being used to train AI models.

  • Textbook Publishers Sue Notorious 'Shadow Library' Libgen

    The suit claims that Libgen, one of the most popular pirate sites, attracts some nine million users a month in the U.S. alone, and offers 20,000 of the publisher plaintiffs' works for illegal download.

  • Internet Archive Files Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case

    The notice of appeal, which was expected, came right at the 30-day deadline—a month to the day after judge John G. Koeltl approved and entered a negotiated consent judgment and a permanent injunction in the closely watched copyright case.

  • Authors Join the Brewing Legal Battle Over AI

    Two new class action copyright lawsuits ramp up the growing scrutiny of large language models and other generative artificial intelligence tools.

  • Coalition Forms to Battle Library E-book Bills

    The American Booksellers Association, Authors Guild, Association of American Publishers, and more have launched the Protect the Creative Economy Coalition following the introduction of a host of new library e-book bills in several states this year.

  • Publishers, Internet Archive File Dueling Summary Judgment Motions in Scan Suit

    The filings sketch the battle lines for a landmark legal battle over the digitization and lending of books.

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