India's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has outlined a proposal for a compulsory blanket license in order to allow artificial intelligence companies to access copyright-protected content to train their AI model.
The proposal was made in the Working Paper on Generative AI and Copyright titled 'One Nation, One License, One Payment -- Balancing AI Innovation and Copyright'. The system would provide "a balanced legal framework" that would ensure "fair compensation to...

The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google's use of content from web publishers, as well as content uploaded on Google-owned online video-sharing platform YouTube, for artificial intelligence purposes.
The probe will assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules and will "examine whether Google is distorting competition by imposing unfair terms and conditions on publishers and content creators, or by granting itself privileged access to such conten...

US lawyer Jason E. Sloan has joined Pryor Cashman as a partner in the law firm's Litigation Group and the Music, Intellectual Property, and Media + Entertainment Practices in New York.
Sloan joins Pryor Cashman after a decade at the United States Copyright Office, where he most recently served as Assistant General Counsel. At the Copyright Office, he handled a broad portfolio of regulatory, policy, and litigation matters, including advising Congress on legislation and working closely with the D...