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US court orders AllAccessTV and Quality Restreams operator to pay studios $30 million for copyright infringement

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The US District Court for the Central District of California, Western Division has awarded $30 million in damages to Hollywood studios following a legal case filed against the operators of piracy sites AllAccessTV and Quality Restreaming. Judge André Birotte from US District Court in Los Angeles also entered a permanent injunction against Dwayne Anthony Johnson, unrelated to the actor, leading to the closure of the piracy sites. The court also declared all claims and defenses resolved. Universa...

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Emmanuel is a Washington, DC-based freelance journalist, blogger and media consultant, specialising in the entertainment business and cultural trends. He was the US editor for British music industry trade publication Music Week. Previously, he was the editor of Impact, a magazine for the music publishing community (2007-2009), the global editor of US trade publication Billboard (2003-2006), and the editor in chief of Billboard’s sister publication Music & Media (1997-2003).

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US states sue to block the merger of Paramount with Warner Bros. Discovery

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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...

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US newspaper publishers file copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for using content to train AI models

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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...

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Court sides with Taylor Swift in infringement case filed by poet Kimberly Marasco

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Federal judge Aileen Cannon of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida handed Taylor Swift a victory by dismissing with prejudice a copyright infringement case filed in February 2025 by poet Kimberly Marasco against Swift, Aaron Dessner, Republic Records and Universal Music Group. Marasco accused Swift of plagiarism by copying excerpts of two of her poetry books in at least a dozen of her songs. Douglas Baldridge, who served as outside legal counsel to Swift and 13 ...

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