The Dutch Association of Journalists (NVJ), the Authors’ Union (Auteursbond), and writers’ rights organisation Lira Foundation have sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta, enjoining the parent company of Facebook and Instagram to using copyrighted material written by Dutch authors, reporters, and translators to train its Llama artificial intelligence models. NVJ General Secretary Thomas Bruning said the letter was a first step. If Meta fails to address the issue exposed in the letter, the organ...

The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated a judgment of the Southern District of New York which granted US rights society BMI a 138% increase in royalty rates for performance rights paid by the live sector. Live industry organisation North American Concert Promoters Association (NACPA) appealed a 2023 ruling from District Judge Louis L. Stanton, who awarded BMI the increase in royalties after the two parties failed to reach a rate and a revenue based through negotiation. The district c...

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has enjoined Chinese company ByteDance to stop training its new AI-powered video generating platform Seedance 2.0 with copyrighted movies and TV shows from its studio members, and to take major steps to implement meaningful safeguards. In a cease-and-desist letter sent to ByteDance Global General Counsel John Rogovin, the MPA's ​General Counsel Karyn Temple wrote that time had come for “far more than general statements" from the AI company. The MPA is expecti...