Supreme Court to decide how 1988 videotape privacy law applies to online video

The Supreme Court is taking up a case on whether Paramount violated the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by disclosing a user’s viewing history to Facebook. The case, Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global, hinges on the law’s definition of the word “consumer.” Salazar filed a class action against Paramount in 2022, alleging that it “violated the VPPA by disclosing his personally identifiable information to Facebook without consent.”

Source: Supreme Court to decide how 1988 videotape privacy law applies to online video

NVIDIA: Contact With Anna’s Archive Doesn’t Prove Copyright Infringement 

NVIDIA has asked a federal court to dismiss an expanded copyright lawsuit, arguing that authors failed to prove their books were actually used to train AI models. The chip giant says merely contacting Anna’s Archive doesn’t constitute infringement and challenges virtually every new claim in the amended complaint.

Source: NVIDIA: Contact With Anna’s Archive Doesn’t Prove Copyright Infringement * TorrentFreak

Christopher Nolan Wants to Know Where All the Hollywood Jobs Are, Too

During Nolan’s first interview about the role, he shed light on his approach to labor negotiations, AI and corporate consolidation, all while emphasizing that one of his top focus areas is boosting employment in the industry. Nolan said early on that he wants to explore the gap between consumer spending on entertainment and industry jobs with employers.

Source: Christopher Nolan Wants to Know Where All the Hollywood Jobs Are, Too

Adobe’s Hollywood Strategy Comes Into Focus 

This week, Adobe confirmed a slate of partnerships tying its generative AI platform — Firefly and the Firefly Foundry initiative — directly into entertainment and advertising workflows, including collaborations with major talent agencies and production entities. The message was subtle but unmistakable: Adobe doesn’t want to disrupt Hollywood. It wants to supply it.

Source: Adobe’s Hollywood Strategy Comes Into Focus — AI In Hollywood

Deploying Visual AI is a legal minefield…how to avoid getting hit 

If you generate an image entirely through AI and use it in your marketing, you may have no copyright protection over that asset. A competitor could use it without consequence. If you want legal protection, you need to add a substantial human creative contribution, and you need to document what that contribution was. However, the threshold of how much AI help is not yet precisely defined.

Source: Deploying Visual AI is a legal minefield…how to avoid getting hit – Kaptur

Silicon Darwinism: Why Scarcity Is the Source of True Intelligence 

At the heart of modern data science, there is a division. On one hand, machine learning is in a race for scale. On the other hand and less loudly, a revolution is taking place in the backward direction: these are quantized models, edge inference, TinyML, and architectures that will survive on very limited resources.

Source: Silicon Darwinism: Why Scarcity Is the Source of True Intelligence | Towards Data Science

AI, copyright, and content licensing in digital agriculture

As part of its role in the Generative AI for Agriculture (GAIA) project, CABI is examining data governance issues to improve access to robust content for gen AI developers in a legal, equitable, and sustainable way. We are developing a model content license (MCL) intended as a standardized template that can be adapted to specific contexts by agritech AI developers  and creators (e.g., publishers, creative copyright licensors, universities) or collective rights organizations.

Source: AI, copyright, and content licensing in digital agriculture

Sony launches $2B music rights acquisition JV with Singapore’s GIC

Sony Music Group is forming a music rights-buying joint venture with Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC Pte. According to Bloomberg, Sony and GIC plan to pursue “high-quality, marquee music assets across a range of genres”. “As a long-term investor, GIC seeks to be a creative and flexible capital partner to strategic industry leaders like Sony,” Girish Karira, head of the sovereign fund’s integrated strategies group, said in a statement.

Source: Sony launches $2B music rights acquisition JV with Singapore’s GIC

Apple says it demonetised 2bn fraudulent music streams in 2025

Apple Music identified and demonetised up to 2bn fraudulent streams last year according to longtime exec Oliver Schusser. “Streaming manipulation on our platform is already incredibly low. We literally have systems where we check and validate every single play on Apple Music,” claimed Schusser. “When we find fraud we remove the stream counts, we remove from the charts, and we take the money and put it back into the pool so that it goes to honourable artists.

Source: Apple says it demonetised 2bn fraudulent music streams in 2025

AI ‘slop’ is transforming social media – and there’s a backlash

Meta, which runs social media sites Facebook, Instagram and Threads, is not only allowing people to post AI generated content – it’s launched products to enable more of it to be made. “Soon we’ll see an explosion of new media formats that are more immersive and interactive, and only possible because of advances in AI,” Zuckerberg said.

Source: AI ‘slop’ is transforming social media – and there’s a backlash

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