UK peers warn weakening AI copyright law could hammer creative industries
Lindsay Clark / theregister - House of Lords committee says ministers must not trade a £124B sector for promises of future tech growth Britain's creative industries will face significant damage unless the government strengthens AI copyright law, according to a House of Lords committee…
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Apple Music Rolls Out AI Transparency Tags, But Platform-Level Oversight Still Missing
Chaitanya Kohli / medianama - Announcing the transparency tags in a newsletter to the industry partners, Apple said it is leaving it to the labels to determine what qualifies as AI content, like "genres, credits and other metadata". The post Apple Music Rolls Out AI Transparency Tags,…
- Apple unveils Transparency Tags for AI-generated music (5)
- Labels must self-declare; enforcement absent on platform (3)
- Platforms differ: Deezer and Spotify use detection tools (1)
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Apple unveils Transparency Tags for AI-generated music
Labels must self-declare; enforcement absent on platform
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Supreme Court Declines Case on Granting Copyright to AI-Created Art
Omar Gallaga / cnet - A piece of AI-generated art is still the subject of a prolonged legal fight, 14 years after its creation.
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Supreme Court Declines AI Copyright Case, Extending Legal Setback for AI-Generated Works
Jason Nelson / decrypt - U.S. justices leave human authorship rule intact, reinforcing legal limits on AI intellectual property claims.
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YouTube Premium Lite Gets Better With Background Play and Offline Downloads
Laurent Giret / thurrott - YouTube is improving its $7.99/month Premium Lite plan with two new perks, background play and offline downloads.The post YouTube Premium Lite Gets Better With Background Play and Offline Downloads appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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Anthropic accuses Chinese firms of distillation attacks
Tom Chivers / semafor - Distillation involves training less capable models on more advanced ones’ output.
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Google Gemini adds Lyria 3, an AI model that can create music with words and photos
digitaltrends - Lyria 3 can take your words, photos, and videos, and turn them into a custom 30-second track with lyrics in tow. It's free to use and available within the Gemini. tool picker. The post Google Gemini adds Lyria 3, an AI model that can create music with wor…
- Google launches Lyria 3 in Gemini, generates 30-second songs instantly (8)
- Hands-on: how Lyria 3 crafts tracks, limits, and watermarks (2)
- Record labels and stocks wobble as AI music arrives (2)
- Skeptics label it 'musical slop'; debate over creativity (2)
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Google launches Lyria 3 in Gemini, generates 30-second songs instantly
Hands-on: how Lyria 3 crafts tracks, limits, and watermarks
Record labels and stocks wobble as AI music arrives
Skeptics label it 'musical slop'; debate over creativity
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ByteDance to curb AI video app after Disney legal threat
bbc - Videos featuring Spider-Man and other characters which are Disney's intellectual property have gone viral since Seedance's update.
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Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents
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Hollywood shaken by Brad Pitt-Tom Cruise fight video made with Chinese AI: ‘over for us’
scmp - A viral AI-generated video of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting atop a building is causing a stir online.The 15-second video comes from the latest AI video-generation platform, Seedance 2.0. The platform was launched this week by its owner, ByteDance, the…
- ByteDance AI product offensive — Reporter: China's fast, cheap models threaten Western AI leadership (5)
- Promotion and Lunar New Year push — Reporter: ByteDance giveaways stoke user adoption frenzy (1)
- Viral deepfake and Hollywood backlash — Reporter: Actors, studios rage against unauthorized cinematic AI (8)
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ByteDance AI product offensive — Reporter: China's fast, cheap models threaten Western AI leadership
Promotion and Lunar New Year push — Reporter: ByteDance giveaways stoke user adoption frenzy
Viral deepfake and Hollywood backlash — Reporter: Actors, studios rage against unauthorized cinematic AI
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Apple acquires all rights to Severance, will produce future seasons in-house
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The show is expected to run for four seasons, with the possibility of spin-offs, a prequel, and foreign versions.
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U.K. Competition Watchdog Plans New Rules for Google’s AI Overviews Under Tech Law
Edith Hancock / wsj - Under the plans, publishers could stop their content being used to power AI Overviews, or to train AI models outside of Google search and make sure their content is properly cited in AI results.
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Hollywood actors and artists just made a move against AI slop
Sarah Fielding / fastcompany - A new campaign launches today against AI’s sticky fingers on copyrighted material.The Human Artistry Campaign’s “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” movement launches today with over 800 signatories. Those include many Hollywood actors, including Scarlett Johansso…
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Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive To Secure Access To Millions of Pirated Books
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-action lawsuit that cites internal NVIDIA documents, sever…
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U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site
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Cloudflare Wants to Build Napster for AI, Except This Time Everyone Gets Paid
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Cloudflare acquired Human Native, a startup that licenses web content to AI developers. A day later, they bought web framework Astro. The deals look unrelated until you see the pipeline: content creation to AI licensing, with Cloudflare taking a cut at ev…
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Wikipedia Announces New AI Partnerships With Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and More
Laurent Giret / thurrott - Wikipedia new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity, which will join Google and other companies already using its content to train their AI models.The post Wikipedia Announces New AI Partnerships With Amazon, Meta, Micro…
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Some of the largest AI players are now paying Wikipedia for the data they already use
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Wikipedia has signed Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity as paying partners for its Enterprise API, but not every website can offset the traffic losses caused by AI systems.The article Some of the largest AI players are now paying Wikipedi…
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Wikipedia unveils new AI licensing deals as it marks 25th birthday
techxplore - Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th anniversary.
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Bandcamp bans music that heavily features generative AI
Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - Bandcamp is taking a big stand against AI in music. In a blog post, the company confirmed that it will ban music that is “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI.” It also prohibits the use of AI tools to impersonate artists or music styles. Bandcam…
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