The Authors Guild and 17 authors — including the Guild's President Maya Shanbhag Lang, 'Games of Thrones' writer George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Connelly, and Jodi Picoult — filed a class-action suit on behalf of a class of fiction writers against OpenAI, the parent company of AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York for copyright infringement.

The authors claim that their works of fiction have been used to train GPT with proper...

The heirs of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote with Marvin Gaye the song 'Let's Get It On', have withdrawn their appeal in the case against Ed Sheeran and his song 'Thinking Out Loud'.

A US court found earlier this year that Sheeran and his co-writer, Amy Wadge, did not infringe on Gaye's song. The heirs to Townsend initially filed filing a notice of appeal Thursday with a federal court in New York in June.

However, in a new twist, Plaintiffs have decided to drop the appeal with prejudice,...

Three weeks after a US District Court granted a preliminary injunction that prevented the implementation by the State of Texas of the Reader Act, formerly known as House Bill 900, Judge Alan D Albright of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas outlined in a 59-page opinion the reasons why the law "violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment."

The Reader Act, which was due to be implemented on September 1, 2023, would require independent bookstores, nati...