On July 7, 2023, writers Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden filed a class action lawsuit against Meta Platforms in the Northern District Court of California, claiming that the company used their books without permission to train its Large Language Model Meta AI (LLaMA), which was released in February
According to court filings released on 14 February 2025, Meta suspended licensing negotiations with book publishers in April 2023 after most publishers showed little interest or lacked the necessary rights to provide AI training data. The newly submitted documents in the Kadrey v. Meta Platforms case—a class action lawsuit
OpenAI’s GPT-4o image generator went viral almost instantly after thousands of users began creating images in the iconic style of Studio Ghibli, raising serious copyright concerns. The artificial intelligence mimics the Japanese animation studio’s visual world with remarkable accuracy based solely on text prompts. The phenomenon was amplified
On 18 March 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously ruled that creations generated solely by artificial intelligence are not eligible for copyright protection, reinforcing that copyright law presupposes a human creator. The decision came in a case brought by computer scientist Stephen Thaler,
The United States Copyright Office issued a landmark statement on copyright protection for works created with artificial intelligence in January 2025. After processing 10,000 professional observations, the office concluded that AI-assisted creations may enjoy legal protection provided they contain a sufficient degree of human creativity, whilst purely AI-generated works
The New York Times officially introduced AI tools in its newsroom in February 2025, which assist staff in creating summaries, editing, coding, and writing. The newspaper announced via an internal email that both product development and editorial staff will receive AI training, and they have introduced an internal AI tool
OpenAI and the Guardian Media Group announced their comprehensive collaboration on 14th February 2025, through which ChatGPT's 300 million weekly users will gain direct access to the Guardian's journalistic content. The agreement ensures appropriate compensation for the Guardian and authentic source attribution for its content on
Thomson Reuters achieved a significant victory in a landmark copyright lawsuit on February 11, 2025, when the Delaware District Court rejected ROSS Intelligence's defense in the case of unauthorized AI data use. The lawsuit, initiated in 2020, centered on whether ROSS Intelligence legally used content from Thomson Reuters&
