The Supreme Court has signaled its interest in a landmark case that could redefine anti-piracy enforcement. By calling on the Solicitor General to weigh in on the “repeat infringer” dispute between Cox Communications and several record labels, it has become more likely that the Supreme Court will eventually share its opinion on the “billion dollar” piracy controversy.
Source: Supreme Court Seeks U.S. Govt’s View on ‘Repeat Infringer’ Piracy Cases * TorrentFreak
The UK’s news landscape could fracture “irreparably” in the next five to ten years with “grim” implications, a new Parliamentary report has warned. The report made recommendations for action that could help stave off some of the challenges, ranging from firmer action on AI copyright theft to the creation of news “accelerators” and tax breaks for local journalism.
Source: Warning of imminent, ‘irreparable’ fracture of news landscape without action
Durst and Limp Bizkit sued UMG last month, claiming that the major music company “designed and implemented royalty software and systems that were deliberately designed to conceal artists’ (including Plaintiffs’) royalties and keep those profits for itself.” In a motion to dismiss filed in California on Friday (November 22), UMG writes that Durst et al.’s “complaint is based on a fallacy” and “should be dismissed with prejudice”.
The oral arguments in Thaler explored the contours of “traditional authorship” through two illuminating hypotheticals posed by Judge Millett: the Kodak camera and the printer malfunction. These examples help map a spectrum of human involvement in creative works and highlight the challenges in placing AI-generated works within existing doctrine.
Source: The Art of Attribution and Three Unlikely Theories of AI Authorship
SAG-AFTRA and the video game companies are resuming contract negotiations for the first time since video game actors went on strike. SAG-AFTRA is seeking a contract that will require game developers to obtain informed consent and compensate video game performers when using the technology to digitally replicate their voices, movements or likenesses.
Source: Hollywood unions are facing an uphill battle against Trump, AI and the slowdown
Amid Spotify’s effort to improve its video offerings, the company is enhancing the audiobook experience for its premium users with video clips, as well as author pages, and the ability to add visuals that appear while listening. The latter gives authors or publishers the option to submit a video of up to 30 seconds for their audiobooks.
Spotify has launched Spotify for Authors, an analytics and promotion platform for its audiobook division, which currently hosts more than 300,000 titles. The platform, modeled after Spotify’s existing tools for musicians and podcast creators, aims to provide publishers and authors with data-driven insights about their audiobook performance.
Source: Spotify Launches Analytics Platform for Audiobook Publishers, Authors
A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence (AI). Spines, founded in 2021 but which published its first titles this year, is a startup technology business which—for a fee—is offering the use of AI to proofread, produce, publish and distribute books.
Source: New publisher Spines aims to ‘disrupt’ industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone
AI music startup Soundverse AI has attracted more than 200,000 creators to its service, who have made more than 500k tracks so far. The startup revealed the figures in an announcement that also stressed its “ethically trained AI model”, with the company saying it has only trained its technology “by securing explicit artist consent and compensating contributors”.
Source: Soundverse AI attracts 200k creators with ‘ethical practices’
Source: Nvidia shows AI model that can modify voices, generate novel sounds