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Sony Music moves to add more than 30,000 copyrighted recordings to its lawsuit against Udio

Sony Music Entertainment has asked a federal court for permission to expand its copyright infringement lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, seeking to add over 30,000 copyrighted sound recordings to its complaint. The motion, filed on Friday (May 22) in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, says Sony identified the additional works after gaining access to Udio‘s training data during the discovery process.

Source: Sony Music moves to add more than 30,000 copyrighted recordings to its lawsuit against Udio

Spotify and major music DSPs on alert as Canada triples streaming tax to 15%

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission announced the increase on Thursday (May 21), as part of its implementation of the Online Streaming Act – legislation enacted in 2023 that expanded the regulator’s authority to include online content. The music DSPs are already battling the CRTC‘s original 5% levy – first imposed in 2024 – which required non-Canadian streaming services to contribute 5% of their domestic revenues to funds supporting Canadian content creators.

Source: Spotify and major music DSPs on alert as Canada triples streaming tax to 15%

The ‘No Fakes’ Act is Back; Can a 2026 Version Pass in Congress?

A revised version of the NO FAKES Act (Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act), a bill originally introduced in 2024 and designed to regulate the use of AI to replicate a person’s likeness and voice, was introduced this week hoping to gain momentum. The original version enjoyed bipartisan support from a laundry list of lawmakers, studios, and even tech giants like Amazon, YouTube, and OpenAI.

Source: The ‘No Fakes’ Act is Back; Can a 2026 Version Pass in Congress?

‘The crisis is here and now’: Hollywood’s anxiety reshapes California politics

Anxiety about the exodus of production to other states and countries is part of a broader upheaval clouding the entertainment ecosystem, with media consolidation and the disruptive force of artificial intelligence among the other pressures galvanizing the industry. And that is giving it a new kind of leverage in the governor’s race, the Los Angeles mayor’s race and other down-ballot contests.

source: ‘The crisis is here and now’: Hollywood’s anxiety reshapes California politics

Anna’s Archive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order

A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna’s Archive. A New York federal judge fully approved the publishers’ requests, issuing a broad permanent injunction that orders more than twenty specific global registries, hosts, and service providers to immediately disable the site’s remaining domains.

Source: Anna’s Archive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order

After Watching 80% of Their Earnings Evaporate, Successful Music Production Duo Sues Suno

The duo, whose music has been featured by major brands like Apple and in shows like “CSI: Miami,” claims that the resulting flood of AI content has acted as a major market disruptor, decimating their primary livelihood by slashing their licensing revenue by nearly 80% since Suno’s public launch. Their complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, May 12.

Source: After Watching 80% of Their Earnings Evaporate, Successful Music Production Duo Sues Suno

Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval

After several authors and class members raised objections to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement over its widespread book piracy to train AI, a federal judge has delayed final approvals of the settlement. On Thursday, US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin declined to rubber-stamp what’s regarded as the largest copyright settlement in US history. Instead, she wanted to better understand why some class members were objecting and opting out of the settlement. 

Source: Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval

The Founders’ Case for Human Authorship in the Age of AI

Who should be eligible for the rewards of copyright protection? The answer shapes human activities across an entire society. From a republican perspective, human creation is worth promoting not merely for its outputs, but because a society of people who write, create, and invent is better equipped for self-governance. As law professor Jane Ginsburg explains, every historical justification for copyrights—natural rights, fairness to creators, incentives for innovation, inducements to disclose —presupposes a human creator. That was no accident.

Source: The Founders’ Case for Human Authorship in the Age of AI

Who Owns AI-Generated Content? Documenting the Creation Process Is Critical

Businesses across industries now use generative AI to draft advertising and website text, create images and presentations, generate software code and develop product concepts. As that use becomes more common, so does an increasingly important question: who, if anyone, owns the output? Copyright depends on authorship, which the Court has described as the person “to whom anything owes its origin.” In the AI context, that makes human authorship the central issue.

Source: Who Owns AI-Generated Content? Documenting the Creation Process Is Critical

EU Commission preparing law on licensing content for AI

The European Commission is working on a law focused on the process for licensing creative content – like writing or art – to AI developers, according to a consultation published on Wednesday.  the EU’s executive laid out plans for a “targeted legislative initiative” to complement existing copyright rules. This will weigh different possible levels of intervention, according to the consultation.

Source: EU Commission preparing law on licensing content for AI

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