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...

Major streaming services with over 500,000 users in the UK are now under regulation by OFCOM, as the UK's Media Act of 2024 comes into force. The oversight from the regulator will apply to services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and public service broadcaster's VoD services like ITVX and Channel 4. Under the Media Act, services need to comply with new standards and accessibility codes to follow similar OFCOM content rules to those currently in place for traditional broadcasters. Th...