The European Publishers Council (EPC) has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission alleging that Google and parent company Alphabet have abused their dominant position in general search services, in particular through the deployment of AI-powered features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode within Google Search. The complaint argues that Google is using publishers’ journalistic content "without authorisation, without effective opt-out mechanisms, and without fair remuneration," with t...

​A group of US music publishers filed on January 28 another copyright infringement complaint against AI company Anthropic, parent company of chatbot Claude, in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. ​In the lawsuit, Plaintiffs — including Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group and ABKCO Music​ — accuse the GenAI company of using unlicensed repertoire from digital repositories such as Library Genesis (LibGen) and Pirate Library Mirror (PiLiMi)​ to train their LLM mode...

Shadow library Anna’s Archive, which had scrapped millions of music files and metadata from Spotify, has been subject to a “silent” legal strike at the end of December leading to the loss of Anna's Archive's .org domain, based on federal court documents unsealed in New York on January 16, 2026. On December 20, 2025, Anna’s Archive announced in a public blog post that it had “discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale,” and that it had illegally downloaded from Spotify “around 86 million music ...