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...

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...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that President Donald Trump did not have the authority to terminate Shira Perlmutter's position as Register of Copyrights and Director of the US Copyright Office last May.
The ruling thus reinstates Perlmutter at the Copyright Office, pending a possible referral of the case to the Supreme Court. 
"ORDERED that the motion for injunction be granted to the extent that appellees Todd Blanche, Paul Perki...