A US appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling for information services company Thomson Reuters in its copyright dispute with former legal-research rival Ross Intelligence over Ross’ alleged misuse of copyrighted material to train an AI-powered legal search engine. The 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Ross’ argument that its search engine made fair use of material from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw platform, a first-of-its-kind ruling by a US appeals court in a wave of high-stakes copyright cases over AI training.Source: US appeals court upholds Thomson Reuters’ landmark win in AI training lawsuit
At a time when artificial intelligence-generated songs are topping Billboard charts, creating a scary and confusing conversation for many in Nashville’s music industry, one company just off Music Row is using the technology to help artists recover money they’ve already earned. Muserk uses patented AI systems to search through billions of lines of streaming data from platforms like YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music to find royalties that songwriters and artists may not have received.
The European Commission is gathering feedback on challenges and options for potential future measures to support the impact of technology, including artificial intelligence, on the effective copyright protection amid market and technology developments of creative works and innovations. While the EU already benefits from a robust copyright framework, emerging challenges and market developments raise the question of whether the framework should be reinforced.
IMPEL and IMPF published a joint licensing framework for generative AI Wednesday (September 30). The two independent music publishing organizations set out seven principles they say should govern generative AI licensing. The framework’s central demand is that the song not be treated as the junior partner to the recording. One principle is non-negotiable: the song must be properly valued and, absent other salient factors, at least equally with the recording,” they said in a joint statement.
The company set out that description in a statement responding to a second copyright lawsuit filed on Friday (September 18) by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in Boston federal court, where the labels’ original case against the company is already being heard. Suno said v6 was trained on “interactions including creations and preference signals” from its community.
The company has commissioned a survey of 1,070 business executives in the UK about how their companies use music, estimating that around 800,000 business locations there play music every day. However, 86% of those companies are playing that music through regular streaming services – Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and Amazon Music are all popular options – despite those consumer services not being licensed for business use.
SoundExchange has signed a reciprocal agreement with Music Nation Copyrights Management (MusicNation) covering neighboring rights in the United States and the United Arab Emirates. The deal means artists and rights owners registered with SoundExchange will be paid when their recordings are played in the UAE, while Emirati creators will be paid when their music is played in the US.
New unredacted information in the copyright lawsuit The New York Times brought against OpenAI and Microsoft three years ago reveals an admission that AI scraping was tantamount to theft, and that AI products pose a major threat to publications. Per the lawsuit, a top Microsoft executive privately described the companies’ AI training practices as “theft,” and OpenAI’s own leadership said its AI models posed an “existential threat” to publishers and journalists.
Streaming Access and Choice Alliance is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group that says its focus is “promot[ing] high-quality and high-value entertainment experiences for consumers.” What that really means is it’ll chat up Capitol Hill and try to convince U.S. lawmakers that streaming services have the right to sign exclusive air deals with major sports leagues. YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, and other streamers have signed increasingly larger deals to distribute live sports content.