Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11), a member of the House of Representatives' Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, has introduced the Protecting American Streaming and Innovation Act, a legislation designed to "counter Canada’s digital trade barriers targeting American streaming companies and content producers." The bill is a direct reaction to Canada's Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11), enacted in 2023, which put audio and video streaming services under the regulatory powers of the Canadian Radio-televisi...

US Senators Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch are calling for Chinese company ByteDance to "immediately shut down" its AI-powered video-generation tool Seedance 2.0 and "implement meaningful safeguards to prevent further infringing outputs." The two policy-makers made this request to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo in a letter seen by CNBC. They describe Seedance as "the most glaring example of copyright infringement from a ByteDance product to date" due to its ability to generate videos copying existin...

The UK's Society of Authors (SoA) has launched the Human Authored scheme to help consumers identify works written by humans. The SoA said the initiative is a response to "a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books." The scheme is understood to be the first of its kind launched by a UK trade association "to help protect an entire profession" in an environment dominated by "the absence of any measure by the Government to compel tech companies to label AI-generated outputs," explained the...