The Network · 2026-03-25 15:56:57 · Deadline
The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a unanimous, definitive win for internet service providers, ruling they cannot be held liable for copyright infringement merely because their networks are used for piracy. In a 9-0 decision, the justices sided with Cox Communications against Sony Music Entertainment, rejecting the a...
The Network · 2026-03-25 16:57:17 · Variety
The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a decisive blow to the music industry's strategy of holding internet providers financially accountable for user piracy. In a unanimous ruling, the Court found that Cox Communications, the nation's largest privately-owned broadband provider, cannot be held liable for copyright infrin...
The Network · 2026-03-25 17:56:56 · The Verge
The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a unanimous, definitive ruling that absolves Cox Communications of liability for copyright infringement committed by its internet subscribers. The decision overturns a prior jury verdict that had found the cable and internet giant liable and awarded record labels $1 billion in damag...
The Network · 2026-03-25 18:57:13 · US Supreme Court / Cox Communications
The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a unanimous, definitive blow to copyright holders seeking to make Internet service providers the primary enforcers against online piracy. In a ruling favoring Cox Communications, the Court held that ISPs cannot be held liable for their customers' copyright infringement unless they t...
The Vault · 2026-03-26 22:57:00 · Ars Technica
Spotify and major record labels are pushing for a massive $322 million default judgment against Anna's Archive, a shadow library that has ignored all court proceedings after being sued for scraping millions of music files from the streaming service. The plaintiffs are simultaneously seeking a permanent injunction desig...
The Lab · 2026-04-02 16:56:56 · The Pragmatic Engineer
A quiet but significant shift is underway in Big Tech's executive suites: founders with deep technical roots are personally diving back into coding, driven by the rise of AI. Mark Zuckerberg, after two decades, is reportedly shipping code diffs at Meta. Simultaneously, Garry Tan, President of Y Combinator, is back 'kne...
The Lab · 2026-04-07 16:57:16 · The Verge
A critical licensing impasse has emerged between AI music startup Suno and the world's largest record labels, Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. The core conflict centers on a single, explosive question: who controls the distribution of AI-generated songs? According to a Financial Times report, Univers...
The Network · 2026-04-07 19:57:00 · Ars Technica
The US Supreme Court has delivered a decisive blow to copyright holders seeking to force Internet service providers to police their own networks, overturning a lower court ruling that could have compelled Grande Communications to terminate broadband subscribers accused of piracy. This decision reinforces a critical leg...
The Vault · 2026-04-09 06:57:00 · CoinTelegraph
Yuga Labs has closed a contentious legal chapter, reaching a settlement in its high-profile copyright infringement lawsuit against artists Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen. The case, which targeted the artists' RR/BAYC NFT collection, centered on allegations that the duo systematically copied and profited from Yuga's iconi...
The Vault · 2026-04-16 12:22:43 · The Verge
Spotify and the three major record labels have secured a massive $322 million default judgment, but the victory is hollow against a phantom target. The award targets Anna's Archive, an open-source library and pirate activist group that announced it had scraped 86 million songs from Spotify's platform. The group's unkno...
The Lab · 2026-04-21 23:22:40 · 404 Media
A new AI-powered service, Malus.sh, offers to ingest any piece of software and output a functionally identical clone, stripped of its original copyright and open-source licensing obligations. For a small fee, the tool promises to 'liberate' software, creating a new version that does not have to honor licenses like the ...
The Vault · 2026-04-29 18:54:06 · The Register
A federal judge has declined to dismiss a class action lawsuit against Databricks, allowing claims to proceed that the company's large language model was trained on a database containing pirated versions of approximately 196,000 book titles, including copyrighted works from the authors bringing the case. The ruling mar...
The Lab · 2026-04-30 03:54:07 · Hacker News
A newly published study reveals that fine-tuning large language models can activate their latent ability to reproduce copyrighted text verbatim—a finding that raises serious concerns about how AI systems encode and later expose protected intellectual property. The research demonstrates that standard fine-tuning process...
The Vault · 2026-05-06 11:01:37 · Next INpact
Le géant de la tech Meta est visé par une action en justice d'une ampleur significative dans le domaine de la propriété intellectuelle liée à l'intelligence artificielle. Cinq multinationales de l'édition — Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier et Cengage — ont engagé des poursuites contre l'entreprise de Mark Zuc...