Each suit attaches an exhibit of 500 compositions, described as “a prioritized representative bellwether”. Round Hill says it plans to amend both cases to cover “potentially ten thousand or more” works. The suits claim direct infringement under the Copyright Act, plus circumvention of access controls and removal of copyright management information under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Source: Round Hill is suing Suno and Anthropic for up to $1B apiece.
Anthropic has begun embedding an imperceptible watermark in all text its newest Claude models generate. The change took effect for models launched in the EU on August 2, 2026, and Anthropic says it will apply worldwide. Anthropic laid out the plan in a support article after signing the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice on transparency. In other words, it’s not exactly volunteering to do this.
Source: Anthropic Is Watermarking Every Claude AI Output. Builders Are Already Trying to Break It
Technically signed into law in June, the Colorado Artist Company Act took effect this past Wednesday, August 12th. Spanning nearly 30 pages, the bill aims to allow artists – referring here to those who create across music, painting, photography, film, writing, “digital content,” and different areas yet – to establish the aforementioned artist companies (or “A-Companies”). According to the law, the term describes an “ALLC” with “a stated artistic mission set forth in its articles of organization or operating agreement.”
Source: What’s an ‘A-Company’? The ‘Colorado Artist Company Act’ Goes Into Effect
A French press association has asked the country’s competition watchdog to take action against Google’s artificial intelligence-generated article summaries, which the trade group says deprive newspapers and magazines of readers. The group has called on the regulator to make a decision similar to that which ordered Meta to put forward a payment plan and resume talks with traditional media seeking fees for the use of their content by AI tools.Source: French press body asks competition watchdog to take action over Google AI
The Motion Picture Assn. has struck its first agreement with an artificial intelligence company, saying Monday that ByteDance has strengthened copyright guardrails into its AI video and image tools that drew legal threats from every major Hollywood studio in February. ByteDance, a Chinese company, is the former majority owner of TikTok’s U.S. operations.
Source: Hollywood strikes first AI copyright truce with ByteDance
On 15 July 2026, the Australian Government announced a new policy direction for the governance of artificial intelligence (AI). The proposed framework includes mandatory national standards for AI, regulation of data centres, and the immediate establishment of an Office of AI to design and implement these governance mechanisms. Of particular significance from an intellectual property perspective, the policy positions copyright as a central pillar of Australia’s AI governance framework.
Source: Australia’s Shifting Approach to Copyright Protection in the Age of AI
After the Supreme Court’s Cox ruling reshaped ISPs piracy liability, the record labels behind a $46.8 million verdict against Grande Communications are ready to walk away from the case entirely. Grande won’t let them, however. The Internet provider is holding out for a formal win and the millions in bond costs it says the appeal ran up.
Source: Record Labels Offer to Abandon $46.8 Million Piracy Case Against Grande
On Friday, a judge largely denied a motion to dismiss from a web scraper, SerpApi, which is accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI to illegally scrape copyrighted Reddit content from Google search results. In his opinion, US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said that at this early stage, Reddit has plausibly pleaded that there was a conspiracy, with SerpApi providing a product to circumvent Google access controls and Perplexity AI paying for it.
Source: Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
Germany’s GEMA has notched another AI legal victory – this time over Suno, which the Munich Regional Court has reportedly ordered to disclose its revenue and pay damages. Meanwhile, the music-generation startup is set to appeal. GEMA touted its “groundbreaking success” today, after suing Suno closer to 2025’s start. Additionally, although legal documents themselves aren’t usually made available to the public in Germany, the Munich Regional Court provided a detailed breakdown of its decision.
Source: GEMA Notches a Major Legal Win Over Suno in High-Stakes Infringement Case
Article 50 of the EU AI Act has entered into force. Enterprises running generative AI tools now have to comply with Article 50, which requires providers and deployers of certain AI systems to tell people when they’re interacting with a machine, and to mark AI-generated content so it can be flagged as such. Providers of systems generating synthetic audio, image, video, or text face a separate duty under Article 50. Marking is the mechanism. The output needs a machine-readable mark, detectable as artificially-generated or manipulated.