A group of a dozen book publishers — including the five main book publishing houses: Hachette, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan and ​Simon & Schuster — have sued online platform WeLib for alleged copyright infringement in the US District Court for the ⁠Southern ​District of New York. The publishers, who are all member companies of the Association of American Publishers (APA), said they brought this action "to stop the mass distribution by Defendants of millions of legally prote...

The UK Musicians' Union has announced its support to the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) in the legal action launched against Warner Music Group (WMG) and Universal Music Group (UMG) over licensing deals with AI companies. In the lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, AFM accuses UMG and WMG of “Breach of a Labor Contract” for failing to compensate musicians taking part in recordings that have been part of a settlement with AI companies such as Udio...

Elon Musk's X Corp. has filed with the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee a motion to dismiss the copyright infringement lawsuit initially filed in 2023 by a group of music publishers, including Concord Music, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music. In the lawsuit, the publishers argued that X Corp., formerly Twitter, had infringed on over 1700 copyrights they owned and were seeking statutory damages of up to $250 million. X Corp. ch...