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A 35-year-old copyright rule could let Ultima's creator make a new game EA can't stop (techspot.com)

2026-06-21 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: ultima, richard garriott, copyright law

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Old-school crime: man gets suspended jail sentence for burning and selling pirated CDs (techspot.com)

2026-06-19 | by Rob Thubron | get Pirated CD Case → | tags: british phonographic industry, napster, music cds

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Retro pirate gets two-year suspended jail sentence for being stuck in the past, burning and selling remix CDs of famous artists — four-year investigation into copyright infringement on 40-year-old medium began in 2018 (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-18 | by Mark Tyson | get Pirate CD Remix Kit → | tags: music copyright, remix cds, uk law

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Investigation by The Atlantic reveals many millions of songs used for AI music training (engadget.com)

2026-06-15 | by Anna Washenko | get AI Music Training Dataset → | tags: the atlantic, ai music training, suno

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H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-11 | by Joe Mullin | get Copyright Office Desk Organizer → | tags: copyright office, library of congress, hr 6028

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Congress just rushed through a disastrous copyright office overhaul (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-11 | by Joe Mullin | get Copyright Office Overhaul Guide → | tags: copyright office, library of congress, register of copyrights

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Police dismantles 9 crime groups in illegal streaming crackdown (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-06-03 | get Streaming Security Camera → | tags: europol, illegal streaming, copyright piracy

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CNN is the latest media company to sue Perplexity (engadget.com)

2026-05-29 | by Karissa Bell | get Perplexity AI Subscription → | tags: cnn, perplexity, ai search

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Perplexity AI Says 'You Can't Copyright Facts' in Defense Against CNN Copyright Suit (cnet.com)

2026-05-29 | by See Full Bio | get AI Fact Verification Tool → | tags: cnn, perplexity ai, copyright infringement

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Perplexity AI sued by CNN for allegedly copying over 17,000 pieces of content without permission (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-28 | get AI Content Monitoring Tool → | tags: perplexity ai, cnn, copyright

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Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-26 | by Lauren Forristal | get AI Music Detection Software → | tags: universal music group, tiktok, ai-generated music

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This sketchy Lenovo-branded pirate handheld is actually legit (Update: Not pirate) (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-26 | get Lenovo Legion Gaming Handheld → | tags: lenovo, linux handheld, aliexpress

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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-15 | get Legal Settlement Document Organizer → | tags: anthropic, copyright settlement, araceli martinez-olguin

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Authors fight for higher payouts from Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-15 | get Copyright Law Book → | tags: anthropic, copyright settlement, araceli martinez-olguin

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AI scraping has become its own media business (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-14 | get AI Content Scraper Tool → | tags: ai scraping, data middlemen, media companies

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Samsung Featured Dua Lipa on Its TV Packaging. Now, She's Suing for $15M (cnet.com)

2026-05-11 | by See Full Bio | get Samsung TV Packaging Art → | tags: dua lipa, samsung, tv packaging

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The strange reason Dua Lipa is suing Samsung for $15 million (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-11 | get Samsung Galaxy Smartphone → | tags: dua lipa, samsung electronics, tv boxes

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Samsung made a “mockery” of Dua Lipa by putting her picture on TV boxes, lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-11 | get Samsung TV Box Art → | tags: dua lipa, samsung, tv boxes

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Singer Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15 million for using her image on TV boxes (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-11 | get Dua Lipa Merchandise T-Shirt → | tags: dua lipa, samsung, tv boxes

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Dua Lipa sues Samsung for putting her picture on its TV boxes (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-11 | get Samsung TV Box Art → | tags: dua lipa, samsung, copyright infringement

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Sony's failed war against Internet piracy may doom other copyright lawsuits (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-11 | get Digital Rights Management (DRM) Software → | tags: sony, internet piracy, supreme court

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Dua Lipa is suing Samsung for $15 million (engadget.com)

2026-05-10 | by Jackson Chen | get Samsung Galaxy Smartphone → | tags: dua lipa, samsung, copyright infringement

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Nvidia’s ISP piracy defense backfires as judge refuses to dismiss copyright lawsuit over more than 197,000 pirated books — scripts in NeMo Framework allegedly ‘have no other purpose’ than to speed up infringement (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-07 | by Jowi Morales | get Nvidia NeMo AI Toolkit → | tags: nvidia, nemo framework, bibliotik

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Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | by Italie Has Covered The Publishing Industry Since He Writes About Notable Books | get Meta Copyright Protection Guide → | tags: mark zuckerberg, meta, copyright infringement

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Even More Authors, Publishers Sue Meta Over Copyright in AI Training: What's Different Now (cnet.com)

2026-05-05 | by See Full Bio | get AI Training Data Book → | tags: meta, llama, copyright

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Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | by Todd Spangler | get Meta Copyright Protection Toolkit → | tags: meta, mark zuckerberg, llama

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Book publishers accuse Meta and Mark Zuckerberg of copyright infringement (engadget.com)

2026-05-05 | by Anna Washenko | get Copyright Infringement Legal Guide → | tags: meta, mark zuckerberg, llama

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Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying (theverge.com)

2026-05-05 | by Emma Roth | get AI Content Detection Tool → | tags: meta, llama, copyright

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Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-30 | get AI Textbook on Fine-tuning → | tags: copyrighted books, large language models, finetuning

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Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-30 | get AI Text Data Curation Kit → | tags: large language models, copyright, finetuning