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ISBNdb Pulls AI Training Book-Scanning Service After 404 Media Coverage, Calls It 'Test of Market Interest'

404media.co · 2026-07-31 · Score: 18

Judge Denies Perplexity and SerpApi Bid to Toss Reddit's DMCA Anti-Circumvention Claims

arstechnica.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 23

OpenAI Quietly Updates ChatGPT to Refuse Direct Requests to Copy Named Authors' Writing Styles

arstechnica.com · 2026-07-27 · Score: 19

Reddit Shares Fall 9% After WSJ Reports Company Weighing Ending $60M/Year Google AI Training Deal

cnbc.com · 2026-07-22 · Score: 23

WSJ: Reddit, Politico and Other Publishers Weigh Cutting Google's AI Access as Traffic Craters

wsj.com · 2026-07-22 · Score: 23

404 Media: Anthropic and Google Are Bulk-Buying Pre-2022 Printed Books to Escape AI Slop in Training Data

404media.co · 2026-07-21 · Score: 19

ALERT US Judge Grants Final Approval to Anthropic's $1.5B Copyright Settlement With Book Authors

news.bloomberglaw.com · 2026-07-20 · Score: 33

Texas Federal Jury Orders Kioxia to Pay Viasat $229M for Infringing Flash-Memory ECC Patent

bloomberglaw.com · 2026-07-16 · Score: 18

Netflix Says Roughly 300 Titles Used Generative AI This Year, Mostly in Post-Production to 'Deliver Higher Quality Output More Quickly and at a Lower Cost' — Disclosed in Q2 2026 Earnings Alongside a $12.56B Revenue Beat

theverge.com · 2026-07-16 · Score: 23

NYT Investigation: AI-Generated Unauthorized Biographies Now Flood Amazon Kindle Marketplace — Reporter Kashmir Hill Discovers an AI-Written 'Biography' of Herself Auto-Published for Sale, Illustrating How Generative Models Now Mass-Produce Slop Books About Real Living People With No Consent or Fact-Checking

nytimes.com · 2026-07-16 · Score: 21

ALERT Suno Breached via Shai-Hulud npm Worm — Hacker 'ellie.191' Leaks Internal Files Showing Suno Scraped 2M+ YouTube Music Clips, 12,287 Hours of Deezer, 17,615 Hours From Genius, 62,117 Hours From Pond5 and ~1M Hours of Podcasts to Train Its Generative Music Models

404media.co · 2026-07-15 · Score: 28

RIAA and IFPI Unveil Two-Tag AI Music Labeling System — One Badge for Fully AI-Generated Tracks, Another for 'AI-Assisted' Songs Where Only Some Elements Use AI

wsj.com · 2026-07-10 · Score: 22

Midjourney Motion Would Force Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to Disclose Their Own Internal AI Use in Copyright Fight

variety.com · 2026-07-03 · Score: 22

ALERT Cloudflare Sets September 15 Deadline for AI Companies to Split Search, Training, and Agent Crawlers — Training and Agent Bots Blocked by Default on Ad-Supported Sites

blog.cloudflare.com · 2026-07-01 · Score: 34

Hasbro's Peppa Pig Contracts Require Child Voice Actors to Surrender Voices to AI Training Indefinitely — UK Agents Group Says Take It or Leave It

hollywoodreporter.com · 2026-06-26 · Score: 20

Google Demands Broad AI Training Rights From Publishers Joining Its News AI Features

theinformation.com · 2026-06-25 · Score: 23

Story Protocol Rebrands as DATA Foundation to Build Blockchain Registry for AI Training Data Provenance and Copyright Compliance

coindesk.com · 2026-06-25 · Score: 16

Beehiiv Integrates Cloudflare AI Crawl Control, Giving 135,000 Newsletter Publishers Toggle to Block or Monetize AI Scrapers

siliconangle.com · 2026-06-23 · Score: 16

Warner Music Acquires Sureel AI to Build 'AI DNA' Fingerprinting and Attribution Across Artists' Catalogs

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-10 · Score: 20

Suno Raises $400M Series D at $5.4B Valuation as Warner and Universal Settle — Sony Still Litigating

thenextweb.com · 2026-06-03 · Score: 24

CNN Files First TV Network AI Copyright Suit Against Perplexity, Alleging 17,000-Plus Stories Scraped

bloomberglaw.com · 2026-05-28 · Score: 24

Stan Lee 'Returns': ElevenLabs Licenses Marvel Legend's Voice and Likeness for AI Narration and Visual Templates

Variety · 2026-05-27 · Score: 23

Universal Music Group and TikTok Sign New Multi-Year Licensing Deal With Expanded AI Music Protections and Artist Attribution

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-26 · Score: 19

Ansel Adams Trust Condemns Unauthorized AI-Colorized 'Moonrise' Exhibited at AIPAD Photography Show Without Permission

engadget.com · 2026-05-23 · Score: 19

Spotify and Universal Music Group Strike Landmark Deal Enabling Fan-Made AI Covers and Remixes for Premium Subscribers

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-21 · Score: 25

Anthropic's $1.5B Copyright Settlement Hits Snag as Federal Judge Declines Final Approval, Requests More Detail on Attorney Fees

arstechnica.com · 2026-05-20 · Score: 21

Barnes & Noble CEO Backs Selling AI-Written Books in Stores, Requires Only Transparent Author Labeling

the-independent.com · 2026-05-19 · Score: 17

Wirestock Raises $23M to Supply Licensed Creative Multimodal Data to AI Labs as Training-Data Demand Spikes

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-14 · Score: 22

EU Backs Italy's Right to Make Meta Pay for News — Landmark Ruling Compels Platform to Negotiate Compensation With Publishers

niemanlab.org · 2026-05-14 · Score: 18

Wired: I Work in Hollywood — Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

wired.com · 2026-05-13 · Score: 20

ALERT Publishers Sue Meta; Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized' Torrenting 267TB of Pirated Books to Train Llama

variety.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 34

'This is fine' creator says AI startup Artisan stole his art for 'Stop Hiring Humans' billboards

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-03 · Score: 22

Academy bans AI-generated screenplays from 99th Oscar eligibility, extending previous acting rule to writing categories

TechCrunch · 2026-05-02 · Score: 22

HN: VS Code 1.117 silently inserts 'Co-Authored-by: GitHub Copilot' into every commit where Copilot touched the message (501 pts, 221 comments)

news.ycombinator.com · 2026-05-02 · Score: 27

News publishers demand Common Crawl remove content and block AI training use

Euronews · 2026-05-01 · Score: 25

HN: 'Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?' legal analysis trends with 42 pts

news.ycombinator.com · 2026-04-28 · Score: 16

Newsletter Issues (9)

#517 What Happens When AI Runs Out of Content to Steal?

2026-07-29 · 2 mentions

#499 Microsoft proves it doesn't need OpenAI; Alphabet raises $85B

2026-06-04 · 2 mentions

AI in Healthcare: sepsis gets its first AI guardian

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

Frontier Research: LLMs reach Nature as the field bets against them

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

AI Safety: the deepfake takedown clock starts ticking

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

#404 Issue #404: LinkedIn is training AI models on your data

2024-09-19 · 1 mentions

#410 Issue #410: Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning

2024-10-24 · 1 mentions

#416 Issue #416: Cate Blanchett 'deeply concerned' by AI impact

2024-12-05 · 1 mentions

#421 Issue #421: In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense

2025-01-16 · 3 mentions