The New York Post has set a path into film, TV, documentary and streaming projects via a first-look creative partnership with Crazy Legs Productions. Atlanta-based Crazy Legs will look to adapt stories and archival materials from the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid across scripted and unscripted platforms. The deal will see the partners focus on developing media content in the true crime, pop culture and sports genres.
Source: New York Post Inks First-Look Film and TV Deal to Mine Archives
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have joined forces to sue Anthropic, home of Claude, over what the publishers call “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.” The complaint also names Anthropic Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and Co-Founder Benjamin Mann as individual defendants. It was filed on Friday (August 28) in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
Source: Now Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic in multi-billion dollar lawsuit
The full array of patents extends beyond music to audio, video, film, animation, images, and text, as well as applications involving name and likeness, according to MIH. Digital services can license them through an online platform that MIH said is designed for widespread adoption. Meanwhile, UMG, its affiliates, artists and songwriters – plus other participating rightsholders – will be able to use the portfolio to protect their works against unlicensed and unauthorized generative AI uses.
Source: UMG-backed Music IP Holdings unveils AI music patent portfolio
Australia passed legislation on Thursday that will force tech giants to pay millions of dollars in levies if they fail to strike commercial deals with local media outlets for news on their platforms. The News Bargaining Incentive taxes the companies 2.5% on their advertising revenues unless they strike agreements. Proceeds from the scheme would be directed to local Australian news outlets, whose content helps drive user engagement and advertising revenue on the tech firms’ platforms.Source: Australia passes law to levy tech giants that fail to pay for local news
A group of Hollywood filmmakers, executives and actors has spent the last three years secretly meeting with Silicon Valley executives to try to address a simmering issue in the industry: how to define where AI is useful in the context of a human-controlled creative process. After a meeting last weekend of about 120 participants, the coalition landed on a framework that outlines how AI is already present in the film industry and defines ways humans can maintain control of other use cases.
Source: Secret Hollywood Group’s AI Plan Focuses on Defining How AI Is Used
Universal Music Group has signed an exclusive, long-term global partnership with Apple Corps Ltd. covering merchandise, licensing, and e-commerce for The Beatles. The agreement was announced on Wednesday (August 19). It hands UMG worldwide physical and digital merchandise rights for the band and builds on Universal’s existing stewardship of The Beatles’ recorded music catalog.
Source: UMG strikes global deal for The Beatles’ merch, licensing, and e-commerce
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.
Suno, the AI music generator that’s managed to both rankle the music industry and lure some of its biggest talent to its side, has added music company BMG as its latest licensing partner as it prepares new models powered by licensed work. The partnership will see Suno pay for BMG’s repertoire of recordings from its artists, while also covering the use of any BMG songs to train Suno’s past models.
Source: AI Music Generator Suno Strikes Licensing Deal With BMG
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