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A federal judge has endorsed a landmark copyright settlement affecting over 482,000 books used in training AI chatbots. The case represents the first major resolution among numerous ongoing AI copyright disputes globally.
News Corp has countersued search engine Brave Software, alleging systematic theft of copyrighted articles from the Wall Street Journal and New York Post for resale to artificial intelligence firms, seeking damages up to $150,000 per infringement.
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Anthropic, claiming the AI firm's systems violate patents related to neuroscience-inspired machine learning technology.
Magnet Forensics has sued a former contractor for allegedly disclosing a previously unknown iPhone vulnerability to a competing firm, causing what the company claims is irreparable harm to its government clients.
Japan will establish a dedicated agency by August to protect its premium agricultural varieties from illegal overseas cultivation, targeting seedlings that have leaked to China and South Korea.
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and two former employees, accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets to jumpstart its consumer hardware ambitions. The dispute marks an escalation between the erstwhile partners.
The New York Times and other US newspapers have asked a federal court to sanction OpenAI, alleging the company made false statements about its ability to search for their copyrighted content used in training its ChatGPT language model.
A US federal judge has dismissed a plagiarism lawsuit against Taylor Swift, rejecting claims that the singer copied phrases from a Florida poet's work across multiple songs.
A Suzhou court has ordered Chinese milk tea chain Molly Tea to pay Louis Vuitton 10.3 million yuan for trademark infringement over a four-petal flower logo design, reigniting discussion about intellectual property rights and the use of traditional cultural motifs in commercial branding.
The Malaysian Artistes Association has urged the government to assume direct control of the nation's music royalty collection and distribution framework, addressing systemic inefficiencies that have hampered the industry for over 20 years.
Malaysia's Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living has dismantled a significant counterfeit goods operation in Johor, seizing merchandise valued at RM600,000 and detaining four individuals suspected of distributing fake branded items to major retailers.
Iconic Malaysian musician Datuk M. Nasir is pursuing a RM5 million lawsuit against MyTeksi Sdn Bhd (Grab Malaysia) for allegedly using his name without permission to promote a beverage product, citing moral and intellectual property rights.
India's Tata Consultancy Services will record a $70 million exceptional charge after the US Supreme Court rejected its appeal in a trade secrets case brought by DXC Technology, bringing total exposure to $220 million.
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear Tata Consultancy Services' challenge to a $168 million damages award in favour of DXC Technology, relating to the alleged misappropriation of life-insurance software trade secrets.