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‘Wall-E With a Gun’: Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit

Midjourney’s new AI-generated video tool will produce animated clips featuring copyrighted characters from Disney and Universal, WIRED has found—including video of the beloved...

Disney and Universal Sue AI Company Midjourney for Copyright Infringement

Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging that the San Francisco–based AI image generation startup is a “bottomless pit of...

A Judge Says Meta’s AI Copyright Case Is About ‘the Next Taylor Swift’

Meta’s copyright battle with a group of authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, will turn on the question of whether the company’s...

Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the United States.In 2020, the media and technology conglomerate filed an unprecedented...

Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized

In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging that it had...

Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft

In addition to the trove of books, the Institutional Data Initiative is also working with the Boston Public Library to scan millions of...

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

Topic, who also represents The Intercept in a similar DMCA case against OpenAI, as well as the nonprofit newsroom the Center for Investigative...

The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down

It’s too soon to say how the spate of deals between AI companies and publishers will shake out. OpenAI has already scored one...