British rights society PRS for Music has launched legal proceedings on March 4 against Valve Corporation, the parent company of Steam, for the unlicensed use of copyrighted repertoire from PRS by the gaming platform. "Since its launch in 2003, Valve has never obtained a license for its use of the rights managed by PRS on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers," said PRS for Music in a statement, to explain the reason behind the proceedings. Steam, which brands itself as the ulti...

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear the Thaler v. Perlmutter case, which would have ruled whether an AI-generated work of art could be granted copyright protection under US law. The petition for certiorari was filed by Stephen Thaler, a computer scientist from Missouri, who was appealing a decision from a Federal Court of Appeals, which found that the US Copyright Office (USCO) appropriately rejected Thaler’s attempt to register an AI-generated visual art piece in 2018. Thaler built an AI ...

Book publishers have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit on March 5 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against Anna’s Archive, seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the online repository of digital content, widely used to train AI models, from copying and making available copyrighted material owned by publishers. Plaintiffs, which include the top five publishers in the US, (see full list below), represented by the Association of American Publishers (AAP), said ...