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...

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...

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 ...