Ankit Sahni, the author of an artwork titled 'Suryast' created by taking one of his pictures a sunset over a building and mashing it with a Vincent Van Gogh painting using an artificial intelligence application, the RAGHAV Artificial Painting App, has filed a lawsuit against Shira Perlmutter, in her official capacity as Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, for rejecting multiple times his application to have his artwork officially registered. The lawsuit was...

The Calcutta High Court has found in favour of the Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) by dismissing telecom provider Vodafone Idea's appeal of a lower court decision which ruled that a separate license from IPRS is required for underlying music and lyrics from recordings when they are communicated to the public. IPRS Chairman Javed Akhtar welcomed the ruling. “We are delighted with this decision and thank the Hon’ble Court for this stellar Judgement," said Akhtar. "It is a landmark moment wh...

Book publishing houses Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishing Group and McGraw Hill, alongside author Scott Turow, have filed a putative class action lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against Meta and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for willful copyright infringement of millions of textual works, including literature, educational works, and scholarly articles, that have allegedly been used to develop Meta’s Llama large langu...