The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has denied a motion to strike filed by OpenAI in the copyright infringement Class Action Complaint brought by authors including David Baldacci, Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and comedian Sarah Silverman against the parent company of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. In the same decision, the court also denied a motion to strike filed by Microsoft.
On May 22, 2025, the court allowed the various lawsuits to be ...

Universal Music Group (UMG) and AI-powered music creation platform Udio have announced that they have reached a series of "industry-first strategic agreements," under which the companies have settled the copyright infringement case brought by UMG.
In addition to the compensatory legal settlement, the amount of which has not been disclosed, the agreement includes new license deals for recorded music and publishing that will "provide further revenue opportunities for UMG artists and songwriters," ...

The Trump administration has filed on October 27 an application with the US Supreme Court to strike a decision from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in Washington, DC which ruled that President Donald Trump did not have the authority to terminate Shira Perlmutter‘s position as Register of Copyrights and Director of the US Copyright Office last May.
The referral of the case to the Supreme Court was expected as the Trump administration estimates that the Presiden...