Copyright

OpenAI urges court to throw out authors' claims in AI copyright battle

ChatGPT's prose harvesting protected by fair use, super-lab argues

AI + ML31 Aug 2023 | 42

Judge snuffs man's quest to have AI-created art protected by copyright

'A Recent Entrance to Paradise' lost

AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 20

Internet Archive sued by record labels as battle with book publishers intensifies

Music copyright bomb hits just as other court conflict leads to lending limits

Personal Tech14 Aug 2023 | 55

If you're going to train AI on our books, at least pay us, authors tell Big Tech

AI in brief Also: OpenAI enters deals with the Associated Press and Shutterstock to license content, and more

AI + ML18 Jul 2023 | 19

China sets AI rules that protect IP, people, the planet, and The Party

Brainboxes will need a license, but their makers may get to share digital public goods

AI + ML14 Jul 2023 | 13

Almost all classic US video games 'critically endangered'

Let us borrow titles digitally from libraries like we can books and movies, say 'puter historians

Personal Tech11 Jul 2023 | 28

Google says public data is fair game for training its AIs

Hey, we're just being honest, says web giant

AI + ML06 Jul 2023 | 31

Supreme Court says Genius' song lyric copying claim against Google wasn't smart

Website can't use state contract law to police copyrights it doesn't own

Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 47

Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI

Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does

Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 92

Whose line is it anyway, GitHub? Innovation, not litigation, should answer

Opinion If Jesus was my Copilot, what would he do?

AI + ML19 Jun 2023 | 43

Megaupload programmers cop a plea in New Zealand to avoid extradition

Kim Dotcom still fighting decade-long battle to avoid being shipped to US over copyright abuse

Legal16 Jun 2023 | 14

Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs

Opinion Intellectual property law crushed by zombie horde

Software05 Jun 2023 | 111

Meta threatens to pull all news from California rather than pay El Reg a penny

And, ahem, other publishers

Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 55

OpenAI's ChatGPT may face a copyright quagmire after 'memorizing' these books

This top-drawer AI tech has a major science-fiction habit

AI + ML03 May 2023 | 91

Publishers land killer punch on Internet Archive in book copyright court battle

Analysis Dot-org vows to appeal after judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out isn't fair use

Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 49

How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers

Updated Digital lending is only fine when we do it

Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 112

AI-generated art can be copyrighted, say US officials – with a catch

Some non-artificial intelligence needed

AI + ML16 Mar 2023 | 36

America: AI artwork is not authored by humans, so can't be protected by copyright

Updated Comic sans Midjourney images would be eligible for IP protections

AI + ML24 Feb 2023 | 75

Software glitch revokes copyright protection for AI-generated comic book

So is AI artwork copyrightable? Not quite as case remains up in the air

AI + ML25 Jan 2023 | 16

Midjourney, DeviantArt face lawsuit over AI-made art

Updated Lawyer known for GitHub Copilot case to argue artists' legal struggle

AI + ML16 Jan 2023 | 61

Belarus legalizes piracy – but citizens will have to pay for it

Meanwhile, the regime is angling to pocket the money owed to rightsholders

Software10 Jan 2023 | 19

Software company wins $154k for US Navy's licensing breach

Court lands on less than the millions asked for after sailors made copies of 3D modeling suite 'hundreds of thousands' of times

Legal22 Nov 2022 | 42

How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm

Special report AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one

AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 75

Indian court directs chat app Telegram to disclose details of copyright infringers

Judge says that servers being located in Singapore is not a get-out clause

Security02 Sep 2022 | 8

Your AI-generated digital artwork may not be protected by US copyright

Do we want to recognise machines as authors?

AI + ML14 Aug 2022 | 52

Anti-piracy messaging may just encourage more piracy

Behavioral economics study suggests rights holders don't understand psychology

Bootnotes02 Aug 2022 | 88

DMCA can't be used to sidestep First Amendment, court rules

Anonymous speech protections apply online too, and copyright can't diminish that

Legal23 Jun 2022 | 18

US Copyright Office sued for denying AI model authorship of digital image

What do we want? Robot rights! When do we want them? 01001110 01101111 01110111!

AI + ML07 Jun 2022 | 31

Court erred in Neo4j source license ruling, says Software Freedom Conservancy

If decision is upheld, this 'could seriously harm FOSS and copyleft'

Software02 Apr 2022 | 30

Russia bans foreign software purchases for critical infrastructure

Public agencies told to stop using overseas apps from 2025 as parallel imports approved, too

Applications01 Apr 2022 | 64

Russia mulls making software piracy legal and patent licensing compulsory

Rule rethink would apply only to those in countries that support sanctions

Applications08 Mar 2022 | 124

Deere & Co won't give out software and data needed for repairs, watchdog told

Updated Farming groups demand some kind of actual action from regulators

Personal Tech07 Mar 2022 | 78

AI really can't copyright the art it generates – US officials

Get ready for robot lobbyists to persuade robot lawmakers to pass robot-friendly laws?

AI + ML22 Feb 2022 | 68

Attack on Titan: Four Japanese Manga publishers sue Cloudflare

Updated Allege content delivery network enables piracy

Legal01 Feb 2022 | 25

Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement

If you're unable to share documents, this may be why

Storage25 Jan 2022 | 83

Support specialist Rimini Street found in contempt of court for continued Oracle copyright infringements

It took two years for Big Red to find five breaches

Legal14 Jan 2022 | 12

Snap continues to make a spectacle of itself as it tries to trademark the word spectacles

How about 'idiot goggles'?

Personal Tech07 Jan 2022 | 74

Malaysia tweaks copyright law to hit streamers of copyright-infringing content

Those enabling piracy may be guilty until they prove otherwise

Legal20 Dec 2021 | 18

Feds charge two men with claiming ownership of others' songs to steal YouTube royalty payments

Alleged scheme said to have netted $20m since 2017

Security03 Dec 2021 | 30

Dev loses copyright appeal over forensic software after judges rule suite was owned by his employer

Did it during work time and got paid for it, affirms Court of Appeal

Legal03 Dec 2021 | 34

In latest DMCA review, US Copyright Office eases rules on computer security research, right to repair

Game console fixes are limited – and there's no allowance for exploit tools

Personal Tech29 Oct 2021 | 12

Judge rejects claims Cloudflare should be held responsible for customers' copyright infringement

'We don’t host the content of the websites at issue'

PaaS + IaaS09 Oct 2021 | 46

GitHub stuffs $1m in Stanford Law School's pocket to provide free legal advice to DMCA-hit developers

Fellowship funding comes in the wake of Youtube-DL fiasco

Devops27 Jul 2021 | 3

Euro court rules YouTube not automatically liable for users illegally uploading copyright-protected material

It has to take action on takedowns though, prelim ruling on long-running Sarah Brightman spat finds

Legal23 Jun 2021 | 13

Photographer seeks $12m in copyright damages over claims Capcom ripped off her snaps in Resident Evil 4 art

From pictures of shattered glass to patterns on doors and much more

Offbeat08 Jun 2021 | 50

American Express loses bid to toss out lawsuit claiming it copied Spanish startup's flight booking software

Claims of ignoring NDA will be tried by High Court, rules judge

Software28 May 2021 | 5

Apple sent my data to the FBI, says boss of controversial research paper trove Sci-Hub

Former Sun boss Scott McNealy offers interesting response

Security17 May 2021 | 74

Exam-monitoring biz Proctorio tried to silence a critic using copyright law. Now EFF sues to put an end to this tactic

Tweets linking to source code were fair use, say digital-rights warriors

Applications22 Apr 2021 | 17

Right-to-repair warriors seek broader DMCA exemptions to bypass digital locks on the stuff we own

Analysis Every three years, people try to patch a poorly crafted copyright law

Personal Tech15 Dec 2020 | 36

Remember so-not-a-pirate Kim Dotcom? New Zealand’s highest court has just said the USA can extradite him for copyright naughtiness

But first, he gets a judicial review and chance to extend eight-year legal saga

SaaS04 Nov 2020 | 15

GitHub warns devs face ban if they fork DMCA'd YouTube download tool... while hinting how to beat the RIAA

No, no, no, you hit it like this *whack*

Software03 Nov 2020 | 63

No, your software ideas aren't copyrightable, US judge tells SAS amid its long-running feud with Brit outfit

console.log("go away and don't come back");

Software02 Nov 2020 | 17

Trump's Make Space Great Again video pulled after former 'naut says: Nope

How may I infringe thee? Let me count the ways...

Bootnotes05 Jun 2020 | 104

Publishers sue to shut down books-for-all Internet Archive for 'willful digital piracy on an industrial scale'

Updated Copyright infringement claim 'not in anyone’s interest' responds org

Personal Tech01 Jun 2020 | 76

You overstepped and infringed British sovereignty, Court of Appeal tells US in software companies' copyright battle

Angry judgments fly as SAS and World Programming spat rolls on

Software14 May 2020 | 59

Internet Archive justifies its vast 'copyright infringing' National Emergency Library of 1.4 million books by pointing out that libraries are closed

Authors, publishers unimpressed

Personal Tech01 Apr 2020 | 66