US Senators Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch are calling for Chinese company ByteDance to "immediately shut down" its AI-powered video-generation tool Seedance 2.0 and "implement meaningful safeguards to prevent further infringing outputs." The two policy-makers made this request to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo in a letter seen by CNBC. They describe Seedance as "the most glaring example of copyright infringement from a ByteDance product to date" due to its ability to generate videos copying existin...

The UK's Society of Authors (SoA) has launched the Human Authored scheme to help consumers identify works written by humans. The SoA said the initiative is a response to "a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books." The scheme is understood to be the first of its kind launched by a UK trade association "to help protect an entire profession" in an environment dominated by "the absence of any measure by the Government to compel tech companies to label AI-generated outputs," explained the...

The European Parliament has adopted on March 10 the own-initiative report on “Copyright and Generative Artificial Intelligence – opportunities and challenges’,” drafted by German MEP Axel Voss, by 460 votes to 71, and 88 abstentions. The report states that to protect the creative sector in the European Union, "the use of copyrighted work by artificial intelligence requires transparency and fair remuneration." In addition, the report calls for rights holders to have the possibility "to prevent th...