Global recording industry organisation IFPI, working with local law enforcement in Vietnam, has secured the closure of stream ripping service Y2mate.com, alongside 11 other stream ripping sites.
Users who try to access the site are welcomed by the following message: "This site has been shutdown for copyright infringement. Stream-ripping sites that turn licensed streams into free downloads are illegal."
It goes on: "Using or operating them can lead to serious consequences, including a criminal c...

Computer scientist Stephen Thaler has re-filed a petition with the US Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia which confirmed that a work generated with artificial intelligence could not be copyrighted under US copyright law.
Thaler attempted to register a visual artAIwork created by AI with the US Copyright Office, but the Washington, DC-based organisation denied copyright protection for the work not once, ...

Members of the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs (JURI) Committee have received from a coalition of 13 organisations representing hundreds of thousands of creators from all over Europe a list of key priorities and recommendations to answer authors, performers, and other creative workers' concerns about AI and generative AI.
In a letter to MEPs, the organisations address what they perceive as shortcomings in the recent JURI draft report 'Copyright and generative AI – opportunities and challenge...