The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) approved at committee level a package of proposals requiring generative AI providers to ensure full transparency about copyrighted works used in training and to provide fair remuneration to rightsholders. Under the proposals, EU copyright law would apply to all generative AI
On 11th December 2025, The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reached an agreement for Disney to become the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI's short-form video generator. Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and receive warrants to purchase additional equity, whilst the
On 9 December 2025, the European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google regarding its use of online content for AI purposes, marking the latest regulatory action against U.S. tech giants. The Commission is examining whether Google breached EU competition rules by using content from web publishers and
Warner Music Group announced that it has reached settlements with AI music startups Suno and Udio, resolving copyright infringement lawsuits filed just over a year ago by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on behalf of major record companies. The deals mark a significant shift from litigation to collaboration,
President Trump declared on 23 July 2025 at a Washington AI summit that requiring royalties for copyrighted works used in AI development is practically unfeasible and would disadvantage the United States against China. Speaking at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium, Trump advocated for a common sense approach allowing unfettered AI development,
The European Commission’s implementation guidance for the AI Act, published on 18 July, has been met with sharp criticism from the creative sector. A broad coalition – including GESAC (the European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers), IMPALA (the Independent Music Companies Association), and CISAC (the International Confederation of
A federal court in San Francisco has ruled that Meta legally used authors' works to train its AI models. Judge Vince Chhabria's decision determined that the Facebook parent company's practices are protected under the fair use doctrine, though the judge cautioned this doesn't
Anthropic has revealed it spent tens of millions of dollars to create a proprietary scanned books dataset used to train its Claude AI system. During legal proceedings in the Bartz v. Anthropic case on 9th June 2025, it emerged that Anthropic compiled a proprietary composition of books that Anthropic sourced,
Walt Disney and Comcast Universal studios filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on June 11, 2025, calling it a "bottomless pit of plagiarism". In the complaint filed in California Federal Court, the companies allege that the AI image generator created and distributed innumerable copies of their iconic characters
The United States Copyright Office (USCO) released a 108-page "pre-publication" report on May 9, 2025, addressing the unauthorised use of copyrighted materials for training generative AI systems. The report represents the final instalment of the Office's three-part series examining the intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright
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
