Reddit is shutting two of the main ways outsiders pull data from the site. The company said in an announcement yesterday that RSS feeds will stop working on November 13, and public access to its API closes in March 2027. “In August, we shared plans to modernize Reddit’s infrastructure, build better mod tools, and make it harder for bad actors to scrape Reddit and abuse communities. Today, we have specifics on what’s changing, when, and how to plan ahead,” Reddit said.
Source: Reddit Is Killing RSS Feeds and Public API Access to Fight AI Scrapers
On Wednesday, the Tokyo District Court ruled that voices are a protected publicity right in the first ruling of its kind in the country. However, the court dismissed the request by voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda for TikTok to remove videos narrated using an AI-based voice that he claimed was based on his own. Tsuda is a well-known voice actor in the popular anime “Jujutsu Kaisen.”
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.
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.
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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 US has criticised Australia’s proposal to give users the ability to opt out of social media algorithms, saying it amounts to “censorship of protected speech”. Under Australia’s draft digital duty of care laws, tech firms risk hefty fines if they fail to give users the option to turn off algorithms in a bid to protect them from harmful content. In a rare submission to the proposed laws, the US embassy in Canberra said it had “serious concerns.”
The European Union will propose a ban restricting kids under 15 from accessing social media, video sharing platforms such as YouTube, AI chatbots, and even online games, in the broadest-reaching proposal yet to attempt to protect kids from online predators. Companies would be required to pay a supervisory fee to fund regulators’ enforcement and continued supervision.