Sony Music and the University of Southern California have filed a motion with the United States District Court for Southern District of New York informing Judge Gregory H. Woods that they have reached a settlement in a copyright infringement case. Details of the settlement have not been disclosed. Sony Music accused USC in a 2024 lawsuit of using more than 170 of its recordings without license in 283 videos promoting the school's athletics programmes posted on social media platforms such as TikT...

The US Supreme Court has put an end to the almost decade-long liability case against Cox Communications by delivering on March 25 a unanimous 9-0 ruling in which it considers that the internet service provider was not responsible for the use of its networks by clients to illegally disseminate copyrighted musical content. Cox was sued in Federal District Court by dozens of record labels, including the top three companies (Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group), for contributory...

Gracenote, the Nielsen-owned metadata and identification services company, has filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York a lawsuit against AI company OpenAI for copyright infringement. Gracenote is suing OpenAI for reportedly using its metadata without authorisation or compensation to train OpenAI's ChatGPT and other large models (LLMs), and for "copying the relational framework it uses to connect its metadata." “Being pro-AI and anti-theft aren’t contradictory; they a...