Hearst and Condé Nast ink multi-year deals allowing Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus to use their magazines' and newspapers' content, including articles from Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and other publications, to provide product recommendations and answer shopping queries.
Google faces EU antitrust complaint as Independent Publishers Alliance accuses tech giant of exploiting web content for AI summaries in Google Search, harming publishers who cannot opt out without vanishing from search results.
Major AI companies scrape the internet for data to train their models, sparking lawsuits from rights holders and prompting deals to legally access data, signaling a shift towards a paid data economy.
Hollywood pioneers AI-generated videos, with Asteria's generative models creating film assets from licensed material, while the upcoming 'Uncanny Valley' aims to showcase AI capabilities with human oversight, as filmmakers grapple with maintaining creative control.
In a significant development, Getty Images withdraws major copyright infringement allegations against Stability AI in a UK lawsuit, while maintaining secondary infringement and trademark claims, even as its separate $1.7 billion US lawsuit against the AI firm proceeds.
Creative Commons unveils CC Signals, a new framework allowing dataset holders to signal preferences for AI reuse of their content, seeking public feedback for an alpha launch in November 2025.
In a legal battle with potential far-reaching implications, a federal judge permits The New York Times' copyright infringement claims against OpenAI to proceed, rejecting the AI company's request for dismissal.
Breaking news: OpenAI slashes GPT-4.1 prices, igniting an AI price war as Sam Altman is ousted as CEO amidst a legal battle with music publishers over AI copyright.
In a groundbreaking legal battle, entertainment giants Disney and Universal take on AI image generator Midjourney, filing a copyright infringement lawsuit alleging unauthorized use of their iconic character libraries to generate AI-generated images, escalating tensions over intellectual property rights in the AI era.
Reddit has filed a lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, alleging unauthorized commercial exploitation of Reddit's user data and content to train Anthropic's AI models without permission or compensation, breaching Reddit's rules and violating users' privacy.