“The magnitude of the alleged infringement is not a defense,” the court told Suno in August. Universal and Sony have now sued the AI music company a second time. They filed the complaint in the District of Massachusetts on Friday, as case 1:26-cv-14275…
“We decline plaintiffs’ invitation to transform run-of-the-mill copyright-infringement claims into DMCA claims,” Judge Eric Miller wrote for a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel. The opinion came on Wednesday in Doe v GitHub, number 24-7700. Anonymous progr…
“As AI becomes more open and interoperable, the value is not in connectivity alone,” said Joel Hron, chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters. “Legal professionals need more than access to information.” He said it in a statement supporting OpenAI, o…
The Paris prosecutor’s office has launched at least one criminal inquiry into sexual harassment allegations linked to smart glasses, Reuters reports, which is the strongest indication so far that France intends to have covert street filming dealt with …
A proposed sale of Spirit Airlines data to Google has drawn an objection from aviation software company Springshot, which says some of the assets may not be Spirit’s to sell. Google won the bankruptcy auction with a $10 million bid for a vast archive. …
A German court has ruled that Meta is responsible for fake investment ads posted by others on Facebook and Instagram. The court ordered Meta to remove the ads and pay damages, Reuters reported. The Frankfurt Regional Court’s decision is not final and c…
Google must open its ad auctions to rivals and accept years of outside oversight, according to the full decision in the US government’s ad tech case, unsealed on Wednesday. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled on 2 September that Google would not ha…
Apple announced Siri Recap and Live Rewind for its new watches on 9 September. The first summarises the conversations a wearer has during the day. The second puts the last 15 seconds of speech on screen as text. Lawyers in four US states now say the fe…
A Texas judge ruled on Thursday that TikTok broke state law by telling parents its app was safe for their children while knowing that it was not. District Judge Cory Liu found that the company had intentionally misled the public about its safety standa…
Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has sued Netflix. He alleges that the company collected detailed data on subscribers and their children, then used it to build the advertising business it had said it would never run. The 66-page complaint wa…