A group of music publishers and Elon Musk's X Corp. have filed joint stipulations of dismissal in the various legal cases involving the two parties starting in 2023. Terms of the settlements were not disclosed. A stipulation for dismissal was filed with the US District Court for the Middle Disctrict of Tennessee, Nashville Division. In the July 16 filing, Plaintiffs and Defendant "jointly stipulate to dismissal of all claims in this matter with prejudice under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(ii), wi...

California and eleven other US states have filed a lawsuit with the US District Court for Northern District of California in Sacramento to block the acquisition by Paramount Skydance Corp. of Warner Bros. Discovery in a $110 billion transaction that will combine Hollywood studios Paramount and Warner Bros., video streaming services HBO Max and Paramount Plus, as well as dozens of TV channels. In the lawsuit, the attorney generals of the 12 states claim that the proposed merger, "would extinguish...

A coalition of US newspaper publishers, representing more than 400 publications, has filed with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, in which they allege that the two tech companies have “systematically” sourced news content from the publishers' websites with web crawlers, without authorisation and compensation, to train their AI models. “Both OpenAI and Microsoft caused hundreds of thousands of the Publishers’ works to be copied and...