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Anthropic’s settlement with authors and publishers still faces a few hurdles

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Anthropic's decision to settle a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors, who accused the AI startup of using content sourced illegally to train its Claude AI model, has reshaped the legal narrative on the use of copyrighted works to train AI models.
Anthropic announced that it was ready to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle the class action lawsuit (or about $3,000 per book plus interest) and agreed to destroy the datasets containing the allegedly pirated material. Some 465,000 book...

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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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Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music allege Suno ripped tracks from YouTube to train its model

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September 21, 2025

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Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment have filed a new lawsuit against Suno, accusing the AI music company of using stream-ripping services to access music content from YouTube to train the AI music generator. The three majors have already engaged in litigation with Suno for allegedly using unlicensed music to train its model.
Billboard reports that the complaint states that stream-ripping violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by circumventing YouT...

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Disney, NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Discovery sue China’s AI platform MiniMax

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September 17, 2025

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The Walt Disney Co, NBCUniversal and Warner Bros Discovery have filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California a joint copyright infringement lawsuit against Chinese platform MiniMax, a division of Shanghai Xiyu Jizhi Technology and an artificial intelligence company which developed image- and video-generating service Hailuo AI, marketed as a "Hollywood studio in your pocket."
"MiniMax completely disregards US copyright law and treats Plaintiffs’ valuable copyrighted chara...

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Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity AI

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Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster Inc., have filed with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York a copyright infringement lawsuit against San Francisco-based startup Perplexity AI. They are seeking damages, injunctive relief and attorneys’ costs.
They accuse Perplexity’s answer engine of "free rides" by using content generated by the two publishing houses and "cannibalising traffic" to&nb...

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