Analysis News From UMG’s motion to dismiss Drake’s lawsuit to Mariah Carey’s copyright win… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News Sarah Silverman’s Meta copyright lawsuit advances as judge allows authors’ DMCA claims Three authors including Silverman accused Meta of copying their copyrighted materials to train the company’s large language model LLaMA
News Record companies in India want to join a lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI News organizations, book publishers, and now music companies want to join a copyright infringement suit against OpenAI being heard by a court in Delhi
News OpenAI, valued at $157bn and facing multiple copyright infringement lawsuits, says China’s DeepSeek may have used its data to train rival AI model without permission DeepSeek spent far less money on developing a chatbot than US AI companies, but it may have done so by stealing OpenAI's IP
News Nvidia unveils AI audio generator ‘Fugatto’ that can produce ‘sounds never heard before’ Nvidia describes its new artificial intelligence technology as “a Swiss Army knife for sound”
Analysis News From GEMA’s copyright lawsuit against OpenAI to Hipgnosis’ $1.47bn ABS deal… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News ChatGPT maker OpenAI, valued at $157bn, sued by GEMA in Germany over unlicensed use of song lyrics GEMA represents the copyrights of around 95,000 members in Germany (composers, lyricists, music publishers) as well as over two million rightsholders worldwide
Analysis News OpenAI just won a copyright battle brought by two news outlets. What could this mean for the music industry’s lawsuits against AI firms? Some observers say the ruling weakens music companies' claims against AI developers, but the OpenAI case is very different from the music cases
News Now George R.R. Martin, John Grisham and other writers sue OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement Lawsuits could have serious implications for all businesses that revolve around intellectual property, including music
Analysis OpenAI’s response to Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit shows music rightsholders could be in for a tough fight over copyright and AI OpenAI says a lawsuit over its use of copyrighted materials in training AI algorithms is based on an 'erroneous' understanding of copyright law
News OpenAI secures license to access training data from Shutterstock… including its music libraries Shutterstock and OpenAI inked their original deal in 2021
News Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta over alleged copyright infringement in AI training Silverman is one of three book authors suing OpenAI and Meta