TorrentFreak: Anna’s Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight. “Spotify and several major record labels, including UMG, Sony, and Warner, secured a $322 million default judgment against the unknown operators of Anna’s Archive. The shadow library failed to appear in court and briefly released millions of tracks that were scraped from Spotify via BitTorrent.”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116404369726769991

Fixed it: "For decades, Aadam Jacobs stole the copywritten performances of recording artists he supposedly loved. His illegal collection of over 10,000 intellectual property thefts since 1984 features popular artists who never granted him any such rights — and these atrocious crimes are now available on the Internet Archive for you to steal, too."
#artists #are #real #piracy #is #crime #InternetArchive #supports #IntellectualProperty #theft #copyright #law #secret #recording = #stealing

Unseen Japan: Japan’s Anime and Manga Industries Are Feeling the AI Squeeze . “In 2024, Japan’s otaku-related industries reached a total market value of $25 billion, in no small part due to an explosion in global popularity. As an IP-driven industry, however, the sudden appearance and expansion of generative AI (GenAI) threw a massive wrench into the works at the height of this anime boom. […]

TechSpot: X is using a Supreme Court ruling to try to kill a $250 million music copyright lawsuit. “X is trying to turn the Supreme Court’s recent Cox decision into a weapon against the music publishers that sued the company in 2023. The move could deal a major blow to one of the music industry’s most closely watched copyright cases.”

Engadget: Three YouTubers accuse Apple of illegal scraping to train its AI models. “Three YouTube channels have banded together and filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, as first spotted by MacRumors. According to the lawsuit, the creators behind h3h3 Productions, MrShortGameGolf and Golfholics have accused Apple of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by scraping copyrighted […]

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/04/09/suno-licensing-talks-with-labels-stall-over-ai-music-downloa-xcxwbn/

Suno Licensing Talks with Labels Stall Over AI Music Downloads

#AI #Suno #AIMusic #UniversalMusicGroup #Sony #Copyright #IntellectualProperty #GenAI #MusicIndustry #EntertainmentTech

S&A Law Offices Announces Annual Elevations 2026 of 23 key members

#TycoonWorld #SALawOffices #LegalIndustry #LeadershipPromotion #PartnerPromotion #LegalLeadership #CorporateLaw #DisputeResolution #IntellectualProperty #LegalCareers #IndiaLega

https://tycoonworld.in/sa-law-offices-announces-annual-elevations-2026-of-23-key-members/

Am I the only one who uses CC0 in vibe-coded Git repo(s)?

#CC0 #VibeCoding #GitHub #OpenSource #IntellectualProperty #AI #Coding #ITStudent #TechEthics #DigitalSovereignty #SoftwareDevelopment #Licensing #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain #Innovation #Programming #Git #FutureOfTech #Sabah #Malaysia

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/04/06/ai-voice-clones-copyright-trolls-target-folk-musician-xcxwbn/

AI Voice Clones and Copyright Trolls Target Folk Musician

#AI #AIMusic #GeneAI #Deepfakes #VoiceCloning #AIMusic #YouTube #Spotify #Google #Copyright #ContentID #DigitalRights #IntellectualProperty #Streaming #AudioGeneration

It seems like the primary use case for AI-generated music is to create slopified near-copies of legitimate artists’ work in order to avoid paying them. Pretty awful. I am glad I don’t use streaming services like Spotify that are pushing AI slop music.

#AI #intellectualproperty

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/906896/sunos-copyright-ai-music-covers