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Australian Screen Composers Launch ‘Human Made’ Campaign Against AI Copyright Threats
https://themusicnetwork.com/news/australian-screen-composers-launch-human-made-campaign-against-ai-copyright-threats

#gbm #HumanMade #ScreenComposers #AICopyright #ProtectAustralianMusic
November 1, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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NYT and other publishers are suing Brave, accusing it of scraping their stories to feed AI tools like Anthropic, Perplexity and OpenAI. Is this the next big copyright battle for AI? Dive into the details. #ContentScraping #BraveSoftware #AIcopyright

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November 2, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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AI's creative crisis: From Gruffalo illustrations to Silicon Valley backdrops, AI's ability to mimic and reproduce artistic styles is sparking legal battles. Copyright holders are pushing back, questioning the future of intellectual property in an era of advanced generative AI. #AICopyright #Gene...
November 1, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Wikimedia says training LLMs on copyrighted work should be fair use, but chatbots reproducing that work for users should need a license. #AICopyright #OpenAI

https://bymachine.news/openai-fair-use-briefs-wikimedia-position
OpenAI Publishes Fair Use Court Briefs as Wikimedia Stakes Middle Ground
OpenAI publishes fair use court brief excerpts; Wikimedia backs AI training but opposes chatbot regurgitation of copyrighted text.
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October 31, 2026 at 11:52 AM
aeowire.bsky.social
The Times already sues OpenAI and Perplexity; this suit goes a layer down, at a search index sold to AI firms. Brave had not responded when TechCrunch reported it.

#AIpolicy #AISearch #AIcopyright
New York Times sues Brave over search index sold to AI companies
The Times is aiming at a supplier of search data rather than at an AI answer engine, which tests whether a search index sold to AI companies counts as distributing copied content.
anythingengineoptimization.com
November 2, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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Allegation: Mississippi newspaper publisher Boone Newsmedia sues Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement in federal court in Mississippi

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Mississippi newspaper publisher Boone Newsmedia sues Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement in federal court in Mississippi
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Allegation. Boone Newsmedia, Inc. filed a copyright complaint with a jury demand on Oct. 30, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi against Microsoft and eleven OpenAI entities,
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October 31, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Company filing: Google, Microsoft, Meta and Anthropic tell investors the AI copyright claims are real and ongoing; Google drops "may" for "are"

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Google, Microsoft, Meta and Anthropic tell investors the AI copyright claims are real and ongoing; Google drops "may" for "are"
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Company filing. In SEC filings this month, the AI companies describe the copyright suits over their training data in firmer terms. Alphabet's Oct. 29 quarterly report says Google is "and will continue to be" subject
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October 29, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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Open Markets' Oct. 30 brief argues unlicensed copying punishes AI firms that pay publishers. It joins the News/Media Alliance and Wikimedia filings in the same case.

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Open Markets Institute files amicus brief backing publishers against OpenAI, Microsoft
Briefs from outside groups are now arguing the licensing market, not only fair use, which ties the OpenAI case to whether paying publishers for AI answers is a viable cost.
anythingengineoptimization.com
October 31, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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Wikipedia's host argues training can be fair use but RAG answers should not be. It is the second amicus brief in the OpenAI news-publisher case within a day on the wire.

Via Wikimedia Foundation.

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Wikimedia brief: AI training can be fair use, RAG answers should not
Wikimedia, whose content sits behind many chatbot answers, is asking the court to treat retrieval-based answers differently from training, which is the line answer-engine citations would be judged on.
anythingengineoptimization.com
October 31, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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Allegation: Amicus briefs pile up on summary judgment in the OpenAI cases: Midjourney and Runway back OpenAI and Microsoft on fair use; law professors and AI startups side with authors and publishers

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Amicus briefs pile up on summary judgment in the OpenAI cases: Midjourney and Runway back OpenAI and Microsoft on fair use; law professors and AI startups side with authors and publishers
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Allegation. Between Oct. 28 and 30, 2026, dozens of outside groups and individuals asked Judge Sidney Stein for leave to file friend-of-the-court briefs on the summary-judgment motions in the consolidated authors
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November 1, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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Company filing: Suno asks the court to pause the labels' second suit over 60,000 more recordings until summary judgment on fair use is decided in the first case

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Suno asks the court to pause the labels' second suit over 60,000 more recordings until summary judgment on fair use is decided in the first case
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Company filing. On Oct. 30, 2026, Suno moved to stay the record labels' second suit, which asserts more than 60,000 sound recordings, until summary judgment is decided in the labels' original June 2024 case over 560
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October 31, 2026 at 2:02 PM
aeowire.bsky.social
Amicus briefs now stack up in the OpenAI news MDL: the Alliance's, filed Oct. 30, argues RAG answers are substitutes, a month after publishers rebutted DOJ's fair-use view.

Via News/Media Alliance.

#AIpolicy #AIcopyright
News/Media Alliance files amicus brief in publishers' OpenAI, Microsoft case
The consolidated OpenAI case is the first to put real-time retrieval (RAG) answers, not just training, before a judge on fair use, so briefs like this frame the question search and answer-engine products will be judged on.
anythingengineoptimization.com
October 30, 2026 at 5:35 PM
aeowire.bsky.social
DCN's survey of its members put median year-over-year referred traffic down 22% in summer 2026, vs 10% a year earlier. Our record has Agarwal & Sen at -40% outbound clicks.

Via S.D.N.Y. court filing (In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation).

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Digital Content Next brief: publisher traffic down 22% in 2026
Publisher-side traffic losses are now being put before a federal court as evidence on the fair-use \"market harm\" question, so the 2026 figure is both a data point and a litigation position.
anythingengineoptimization.com
October 30, 2026 at 3:51 PM
payauthors.bsky.social
Court order: Judge Chhabria finds the Hobbs, Older and Sheard author suits against Meta related to Kadrey and takes them over

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Judge Chhabria finds the Hobbs, Older and Sheard author suits against Meta related to Kadrey and takes them over
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Court order. On Oct. 28, 2026, Judge Vince Chhabria signed a related-case order in Kadrey v. Meta (Dkt. 880) finding three later author suits against Meta related to Kadrey and directing that they be reassigned to
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October 29, 2026 at 2:09 PM
sharedsapience.com
Apollo's chief economist finds flat margins at 493 big US companies outside tech. Elvis Presley's estate sues Anthropic over 274 songs, as Congress drafts protection for labs' own outputs. #AIEconomics #AICopyright https://sharedsapience.com/century-report/the-century-report-october-26-2026/
October 26, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Allegation: Elvis song owners' complaint against Anthropic is now public: it alleges Claude copied 274 compositions, plus DMCA circumvention and CMI-removal claims

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Elvis song owners' complaint against Anthropic is now public: it alleges Claude copied 274 compositions, plus DMCA circumvention and CMI-removal claims
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Allegation. The complaint behind earlier press reports is now available. ABG EPE IP LLC (the Authentic Brands Group entity for Elvis Presley's rights), the Luigi Creatore and Aberbach family trusts, Jason Simeon
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October 28, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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Allegation: Textbook and Academic Authors Association tells the Bartz judge the settlement's claim-dispute process is confusing, buggy and tilted toward publishers

#AIcopyright #copyright
Textbook and Academic Authors Association tells the Bartz judge the settlement's claim-dispute process is confusing, buggy and tilted toward publishers
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Allegation. In a letter filed Oct. 27 (Dkt. 695), the Textbook and Academic Authors Association, a nonprofit that is not a party, responded to the parties' Oct. 23 stipulation to update the settlement website and
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October 27, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Company filing: Suno asks the court to make Apple sit for a deposition, saying Apple's talks with the labels and its streaming-fraud data go to market harm and Suno's copyright misuse defense

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Suno asks the court to make Apple sit for a deposition, saying Apple's talks with the labels and its streaming-fraud data go to market harm and Suno's copyright misuse defense
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Company filing. On Oct. 27, 2026, Suno opposed non-party Apple's motion to quash its deposition subpoena in the record labels' suit over Suno's training on their recordings. Suno says it has narrowed the dispute to f
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October 28, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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Reported: Elvis Presley's rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 songs, alleging Claude was trained on the compositions and lyrics and still reproduces them

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Elvis Presley's rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 songs, alleging Claude was trained on the compositions and lyrics and still reproduces them
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Reported. According to NBC News, NME and Billboard, a subsidiary of Authentic Brands Group, which controls Presley's intellectual property, sued Anthropic on Oct. 23, 2026 together with other companies, trusts
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October 26, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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Company filing: Anthropic replies that it needed essentially all public web text to build Claude and that lyrics were collected only as a byproduct of that effort

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Anthropic replies that it needed essentially all public web text to build Claude and that lyrics were collected only as a byproduct of that effort
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Company filing. In its Sept. 8, 2026 reply (Dkt. 801; public refiling Sept. 22, 2026 as Dkt. 848), Anthropic says training a general-purpose model required it to collect essentially all the text publicly available on
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October 24, 2026 at 5:28 AM
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Allegation: Authors ask the court to deny OpenAI summary judgment, arguing its LibGen and Books3 downloads must be judged on their own and that training on their books was not fair use

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Authors ask the court to deny OpenAI summary judgment, arguing its LibGen and Books3 downloads must be judged on their own and that training on their books was not fair use
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Allegation. In a 48-page brief filed Oct. 24, 2026 (public redacted version at MDL Dkt. 2271; the unredacted brief is under seal), the class plaintiffs oppose OpenAI's motion for summary judgment on fair use. The
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October 25, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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Source: Billboard
Author: Bill Donahue
Curated: @developingprocess.bsky.social

#AIMusic #CopyrightInfringement #Suno #MusicIndustry #AICopyright #FairUse #Anthropic
October 22, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Allegation: Publishers answer that Anthropic's own claim it does not need their lyrics defeats its fair-use defense, and that Claude's lyric outputs show why it copied them

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Publishers answer that Anthropic's own claim it does not need their lyrics defeats its fair-use defense, and that Claude's lyric outputs show why it copied them
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Allegation. In their combined opposition and reply filed Aug. 17, 2026 (Dkt. 756; public refiling Sept. 22, 2026 as Dkt. 876), the music publishers argue that because Anthropic says it has no particular need for
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October 24, 2026 at 5:28 AM
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Company filing: Anthropic asks for summary judgment against the music publishers, saying training Claude on lyrics is fair use and that users, not Anthropic, cause any lyric outputs

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Anthropic asks for summary judgment against the music publishers, saying training Claude on lyrics is fair use and that users, not Anthropic, cause any lyric outputs
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Company filing. In its April 20, 2026 cross-motion (Dkt. 686, corrected Dkt. 693; public refiling Sept. 22, 2026 as Dkt. 842), Anthropic says it trained Claude on the lyrics along with billions of other copyrighted w
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October 24, 2026 at 5:27 AM
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Allegation: News publishers ask the court to deny OpenAI and Microsoft summary judgment, arguing training and RAG on their articles are not fair use and that no implied license exists

#AIcopyright #copyright
News publishers ask the court to deny OpenAI and Microsoft summary judgment, arguing training and RAG on their articles are not fair use and that no implied license exists
PayAuthors news, graded by source: Allegation. In a 76-page omnibus brief filed Oct. 23, 2026 (public version with redactions; the full brief is under seal at Dkt. 2119), the News plaintiffs oppose OpenAI's and Microsoft's motions for summary judg
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October 23, 2026 at 4:04 PM