The Jiangsu High People's Court has rejected an appeal filed by Chinese video-sharing platform Bilibili in a copyright infringement case filed by South Korean broadcaster MBC. In addition, the court increasing damages in this final appeal proceeding. The court found that the digital "safe harbour" defense invoked by the Chinese company did not shield from liability for the pirated content circulating on the platform. The judgment is final and takes immediate effect under China’s two-instance tri...

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...