The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has enjoined Chinese company ByteDance to stop training its new AI-powered video generating platform Seedance 2.0 with copyrighted movies and TV shows from its studio members, and to take major steps to implement meaningful safeguards. In a cease-and-desist letter sent to ByteDance Global General Counsel John Rogovin, the MPA's ​General Counsel Karyn Temple wrote that time had come for “far more than general statements" from the AI company. The MPA is expecti...

South Korea's three major terrestrial broadcasters KBS, MBC, and SBS have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against AI company OpenAI, according to the Korea Broadcasters Association. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI-operated chatbot ChatGPT was trained using the broadcasters' news content without authorisation. The broadcasters are seeking an injunction to stop OpenAI's alleged copyright infringement and compensation for damages. The KBA noted that "copyright holders face significant barri...

Judge Arun Subramanian from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected in parts the motion for summary judgment filed by Live Nation Entertainment in the antitrust case initiated by the US Department of Justice and several States against the live music market leader. The February 18 decision cleared the way for a possible antitrust jury trial in Manhattan federal court, with jury selection scheduled to begin on March 2. The DoJ and some 30 US state Attorneys ...