Technology

EU Withdraws AI Liability Proposal; US Seeks Comments on AI Action Plan

February 25, 2025By rightstech

The EU is withdrawing proposed regulations for handling victim’s claims of harm caused by AI — but it faces internal opposition. The commission’s change of heart was blasted by Axel Voss, a German member of the European Parliament. “Why the sudden U-turn? The answer likely lies in pressure from industry lobbyists who view any liability rules as an existential threat to their business models,” Voss told the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Source: AI Regulations: EU Withdraws AI Liability Proposal; US Seeks Comments on AI Action Plan | PYMNTS.com

Spotify Looks to Expand AI-Narrated Audiobooks On Its Platform

February 25, 2025By rightstech

Books that use AI narration will be marked in the metadata on Spotify and the book description will lead with the statement, “This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.” Spotify had already supported digital voice-narrated content created with Google Play Books, however, this adds in another possibility for authors, as Spotify’s audiobook production platform, Findaway has specific rules around working with AI narration services.

Source: Spotify Looks to Expand AI-Narrated Audiobooks On Its Platform

Is DeepSeek training its AI on copyrighted music without permission?

February 18, 2025By rightstech

The Director General of The International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) has suggested there is evidence that this could be the case. “DeepSeek falls into the category of AI companies choosing to scrape the internet’s content, including the world’s copyright protected music, [and] use it for commercial purposes, without a license from rightholders and creators,” ICMP Director General John Phelan wrote in a LinkedIn post.

Source: Is DeepSeek training its AI on copyrighted music without permission?

Record companies in India want to join a lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI

February 18, 2025By rightstech

News organizations, book publishers, and now music companies want to join a copyright infringement suit against OpenAI being heard by a court in Delhi. The music companies are “concerned OpenAI and other AI systems can extract lyrics, music compositions, and sound recordings from the internet,” an unnamed industry source told Reuters.

Source: Record companies in India want to join a lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI

OpenAI lays out plans for GPT-5

February 12, 2025By rightstech

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman detailed plans for the company’s GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 AI models in a roadmap published on X on Wednesday. In the post, Altman also acknowledged that OpenAI’s product lineup has gotten complicated and says that the company wants to do “a much better job” simplifying its offerings. “We hate the model picker as much as you do and want to return to magic unified intelligence,” Altman says.

Source: OpenAI lays out plans for GPT-5

DeepSeek launch underlines value of news content to AI companies

February 12, 2025By rightstech

The release of the new R1 model by China-based AI start-up DeepSeek has a number of important implications for news publishers, cutting across the future economics of AI, the ability of IP holders to protect their rights and the risks that these technologies pose to the broader information ecosystem. DeepSeek’s training data was obtained without authorisation or even transparency; the crawlers it is using are undeclared, third-party or hidden.

Source: DeepSeek launch underlines value of news content to AI companies

Thousands of Artists Demand Christie’s Cancels AI Art Sale

February 12, 2025By rightstech

An open letter to the house signed by almost 4,000 people is demanding Christie’s bins its “Augmented Intelligence” auction, slated to run from February 20 to March 5. It’s billed as the “first-ever AI-dedicated sale at a major auction house.” Artists Kelly McKernan and Karla Ortiz, two signatories the letter. They are taking AI companies to court over claims that the firms’ image generation tools have used their work without permission.

Source: Thousands of Artists Demand Christie’s Cancels AI Art Sale: ‘AI Models Exploit Humans’

AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds

February 12, 2025By rightstech

Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC. The BBC gave OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website then asked them questions about the news. It said the resulting answers contained “significant inaccuracies” and distortions.

Source: AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds

Thomson Reuters wins an early court battle over AI, copyright, and fair use

February 12, 2025By rightstech

On Tuesday, US District Court of Delaware judge Stephanos Bibas issued a partial summary judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, a legal AI startup. Filed in 2020, it’s one of the first cases that will deal with the legality of AI tools and how they are trained, often using copyrighted data scraped from somewhere else without license or permission.

Source: Thomson Reuters wins an early court battle over AI, copyright, and fair use

AI Agents Are Now Trading IP Rights With Each Other

February 10, 2025By rightstech

While artists worldwide have been complaining about AI stealing their work, Story Protocol believes it has come up with a solution. The platform has introduced a system that lets AI agents trade intellectual property rights with each other, turning them into paying customers for tokenized IP rights on the blockchain. If you can’t beat them, join them, as they say.

Source: AI Agents Are Now Trading IP Rights With Each Other—And Earning Crypto for Their Owners – Decrypt