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Music publishers file second infringement lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, seeking $3 billion in damages

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​A group of US music publishers filed on January 28 another copyright infringement complaint against AI company Anthropic, parent company of chatbot Claude, in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. ​In the lawsuit, Plaintiffs — including Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group and ABKCO Music​ — accuse the GenAI company of using unlicensed repertoire from digital repositories such as Library Genesis (LibGen) and Pirate Library Mirror (PiLiMi)​ to train their LLM mode...

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Emmanuel is a Washington, DC-based freelance journalist, blogger and media consultant, specialising in the entertainment business and cultural trends. He was the US editor for British music industry trade publication Music Week. Previously, he was the editor of Impact, a magazine for the music publishing community (2007-2009), the global editor of US trade publication Billboard (2003-2006), and the editor in chief of Billboard’s sister publication Music & Media (1997-2003).

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New York District Judge rejects parts of Live Nation’s motion for summary judgment in antitrust case brought by US government

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February 23, 2026

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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 decision clears the way for a possible antitrust jury trial in Manhattan federal court, with jury selection scheduled to begin on March 2, according to Reuters. The DoJ and some 30 US state ...

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JioStar India files lawsuit against VPN operator ExpressVPN for allowing users to bypass territorial licensing controls

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February 23, 2026

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JioStar India Private Limited, operator of India's video streaming platform JioHotstar, has filed a criminal complaint with the Maharashtra Cyber Digital Crime Unit in Mumbai against Express Technologies, operator of the VPN service ExpressVPN, and its parent Kape Technologies PLC. In the complaint, JioStar argues that by providing access to VPNs to circumvent geo-restrictions on its streaming platform, ExpressVPN puts JioStar at risk of copyright infringement for breaking strict territorial exc...

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Netflix labels Seedance 2.0 AI service as a ‘high-speed piracy engine’ and threatens ByteDance of ‘immediate litigation’

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February 19, 2026

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Netflix is considering “immediate litigation” against Chinese streaming platform ByteDance for engaging in massive copyright infringement through its newly launched Seedance 2.0 AI serviceAI service, which allows users to make videos using characters and situations from copyrighted movies and TV shows. In a cease-and-desist letter seen by seen by Variety, Netflix's Director of Litigation Mindy LeMoine claimed that "Seedance acts as a high-speed piracy engine, generating mass quantities of unauth...

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