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Recently, Getty Images announced in the London High Court that it has withdrawn its main copyright infringement allegations against Stability AI, further narrowing the focus of this closely watched legal battle. The core of this lawsuit revolves around how AI companies use copyrighted content to train their models. Image source note: The image is AI-generated, and the image licensing service is Midjourney. Although Getty Images' dismissal of the case did not end it, the company is still pursuing other allegations.

In a recent episode of the podcast "Hard Fork," OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman voluntarily discussed the copyright lawsuit filed by The New York Times against OpenAI and its major investor, Microsoft. The lawsuit primarily accuses OpenAI of using The New York Times' content without authorization while training its large language models. Altman expressed concern about the lawsuit, particularly regarding a new request made by The New York Times' lawyers.

Recently, Microsoft was accused by several renowned authors, who claim that the company used a large number of pirated books without permission to train its artificial intelligence model Megatron. The suing authors include Kai Bird, Jia Tolentino, and Daniel Okrent, who filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, arguing that Microsoft used pirated electronic versions of their works for AI training, allowing the AI to generate responses based on users' text instructions. The core issue of this lawsuit is whether the use of copyrighted materials during AI training constitutes copyright infringement.

Recently, a sensational controversy has erupted in the field of artificial intelligence. The startup IYO, which was spun off from Google X Lab, has accused OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman of plagiarizing its smart earpiece technology, and claims that OpenAI attempted to cover up this act by acquiring Jony Ive's company IO for $6.5 billion. IYO's allegations: OpenAI is suspected of stealing smart earpiece technology. IYO is a startup that has been focusing on developing AI-powered smart earpieces since 2018, with its products designed to control voice through

Disney is taking strong legal actions against unauthorized AI use of its copyrighted characters. Chief Legal Officer Horacio Gutierrez revealed that the recent lawsuit against the image generator Midjourney is just the beginning of this intellectual property defense campaign. This move marks Disney's determination to protect its valuable IPs in the field of generative AI. Disney's first lawsuit against Midjourney originated from the company ignoring multiple requests to delete content featuring characters such as Darth Vader. Despite Midjourney being much smaller than OpenAI

A recent paper published by researchers from Stanford University, Cornell University, and West Virginia University shows that Meta's Llama3.1 AI model can reproduce large amounts of copyrighted book content word for word, posing potential significant legal risks for the tech giant. The study indicates that the Llama3.170B model was able to reproduce 42% of the text from 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' in testing, far exceeding the 4.4% reproduced by the first-generation Llama model. Artificial intelligence models, such as Ope

Recently, global entertainment giants Disney and Universal Pictures have filed a copyright lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Midjourney, marking the first official legal dispute involving generative artificial intelligence for major Hollywood companies, drawing global attention. According to reports by CCTV, the two companies pointed out in their 110-page complaint that Midjourney allegedly illegally used its massive copyright library to generate and spread a large number of unauthorized copies of well-known characters, including characters from 'Star Wars,' 'Minions,' 'Shrek,' 'Frozen,' etc.

The independent AI application Meta AI launched by Meta has drawn extensive attention from users. However, this application has also revealed serious privacy issues. Many users unintentionally publicly share private conversations with chat bots, causing their sensitive information to be exposed in public view. The Meta AI application allows users to post conversation content to social platforms via a sharing button after interacting with the AI. But surprisingly, many users are unaware of this, and the content they post

Recently, Reddit filed a lawsuit with the San Francisco Superior Court against the AI startup company Anthropic, accusing it of making over 100,000 unlawful accesses to its platform since July 2024 despite being explicitly prohibited. This action has attracted significant attention. Reddit accused Anthropic of not only violating its platform rules but also acting immorally and illegally while pretending to uphold ethics and law in public. In the lawsuit, Reddit described Anthropic...

According to the latest report from Bloomberg, global renowned music companies including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment are in talks with two artificial intelligence startups, Udio and Suno, regarding copyright licensing. The aim of this negotiation is to establish a framework to ensure that AI companies can reasonably compensate artists for the use of their works. These two companies, Udio and Suno, focus on helping emerging music artists create songs; by simply providing prompts describing sounds or song themes, they can generate audio recordings.

Recently, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology officially issued the 'Action Plan for AI Empowered New Industrialization in Beijing (2025)'. The plan aims to promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence with industry to facilitate intelligent upgrades in manufacturing and enhance overall production efficiency. Image source notes: Images generated by AI; image authorization service provider is Midjourney. The primary task of the plan is to build high-quality industry datasets, encouraging manufacturing enterprises and research institutions to actively collect and process data, forming practical datasets, and addressing relevant requirements.

Recently, the UK government suffered a major setback in its efforts to push forward with AI-related legislation. The House of Lords proposed an amendment to the government's Data (Usage and Access) Bill aimed at strengthening protection for content creators, which has garnered widespread attention and discussion. Under current laws, the Labour Party government is seeking to introduce a copyright exception clause that would allow commercial generative AI to access relevant data during model training without requiring permission from creators. This proposal has sparked