The Trump administration has filed on October 27 an application with the US Supreme Court to strike a decision from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in Washington, DC which 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 referral of the case to the Supreme Court was expected as the Trump administration estimates that the Presiden...

The 17th Civil Court in São Paulo has ruled against the operators of TurbineDigital, a platform offering streaming manipulation and fake engagement services across platform such as YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, and others.
The court found the services provider engaged in illegal behaviour by violating Brazil’s Consumer Protection Act through misleading advertising (Article 37). The court cited evidence of fake accounts used in test purchases conducted by APDIF do Brasil and CyberGaeco, a ...

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, ...