Litigation, intellectual property, liability, and case law.
September 12, 20263 min readLitigation
The Ninth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction against Perplexity’s Comet browser agent, finding that the user—not Perplexity—accessed Amazon’s computers on the current record. The ruling is the first federal appellate decision to examine computer-access laws in the context of agentic AI.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI liability ruling
September 3, 20262 min readLitigation
A lawsuit alleges that an AI company wrongly treated data trainers as independent contractors instead of employees. The dispute adds to scrutiny of labor practices surrounding the human work used to develop AI systems.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI litigation
September 3, 20263 min read
Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, taking control of a major repository for open and open-weight AI models. The deal also highlights licensing, intellectual property and European technology-funding questions surrounding the platform.
By AI News Daily · Source: Generative AI intellectual property
August 30, 20263 min readLitigation · Privacy & Data
ChatGPT conversations have appeared in at least a dozen US civil and criminal cases, showing that candid exchanges with AI systems can be subpoenaed, recovered from devices and placed in court records. The logs generally lack the professional privileges associated with communications involving lawyers or licensed therapists.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI litigation
August 17, 20263 min readCopyright & IP · Litigation
Round Hill Music has sued Suno and Anthropic, alleging that they used more than 500 copyrighted songs without permission to train AI systems. The publisher says an expansion of the cases to thousands of works could push potential damages above $1 billion.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI copyright lawsuit
August 7, 20263 min read
Suno plans to add tamper-resistant audio watermarks, fingerprinting, copyright detection and limits on mass downloads from its AI music platform. The measures arrive as the company faces lawsuits and wider scrutiny over training data, voice imitation and generated music distribution.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI copyright lawsuit
August 2, 20263 min readLitigation · Privacy & Data
A federal judge denied xAI’s last-minute request to block Minnesota’s law targeting AI nudification services, allowing the measure to take effect August 1. The ruling addressed xAI’s delay in seeking emergency relief, not the ultimate constitutionality of the law.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI liability ruling
August 2, 20263 min readCopyright & IP · Litigation
The Munich Regional Court found that AI music platform Suno used copyrighted works represented by GEMA without authorization. Suno may appeal the first-instance ruling, while damages will be calculated later.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI copyright lawsuit
July 29, 20263 min read
A Japanese Justice Ministry panel has approved draft guidelines explaining how publicity and likeness rights may protect voice actors and others from unauthorized AI-generated voice replicas. The nonbinding guidance also addresses AI songs and sexually explicit deepfakes.
By AI News Daily · Source: Generative AI intellectual property
July 21, 20263 min readCopyright & IP · Litigation
A federal judge has approved Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class-action settlement with authors whose books were allegedly downloaded from pirate libraries. Eligible rights holders are expected to receive about $3,000 per covered title.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI copyright lawsuit
July 18, 20265 min read
A Texas business court found that most of a litigant’s ChatGPT conversations qualified as work product because they reflected preparation and mental impressions developed in anticipation of litigation. The nonfinal ruling preserved much of the content but required disclosure of the AI tool and materials supplied to it.
By AI News Daily · Source: texaslawbook.net
July 18, 20265 min read
A WIPO report highlighted by Law360 indicates that generative AI patent activity is rising rapidly worldwide. The trend points to growing competition over technical inventions even as separate copyright and training-data disputes continue.
By AI News Daily · Source: IPWatchdog / Patently-O