The iQIYI v. Minimax AI case in China is a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the major Chinese video-streaming platform iQIYI against AI startup MiniMax. The case covers 2 critical issues in the legal landscape for AI:  Unauthorized Training Data: iQIYI alleges that MiniMax used its copyrighted movies, TV shows, and other content without authorization to train MiniMax's large AI models. Infringing Output: The lawsuit also claims that the content generated by MiniMax's A

Film groups representing Bollywood and Hollywood are lobbying the Indian government to ensure their works are not used by AI companies to train their LLMs. The Producers Guild of India and US Motion Picture Association have written to a government review panel set up to review AI and copyright. The groups expressed concern that AI firms could scrape their film content and even use pirated content in their LLMs. At present the Indian copyright law does cover AI use. The letter

A famous Bollywood couple have taken legal action against YouTube and its parent company, Google. The actors Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan filed lawsuits in the Delhi High Court seeking a permanent injunction against misuse of their likeness, voice, and image in AI-generated deepfake content. The lawsuits cite several explicit and fictitious manipulated videos, some of which had amassed millions of views on YouTube channels. Beyond demanding the removal of this

Demark is leading the world against misleading deepfakes. The profusion of AI driven hyper-realistic digital content and  AI slop, now...

The European Commission’s Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List  provides an in-depth examination of the evolving landscape of global content...

A key issue in AI LLM training is the increasingly common adoption of "opt-out" systems in copyright law reforms. This enables copyright...

LLM training AI image A number of countries have created exceptions in their copyright laws which allow text and data mining by AI...

The longstanding case of Naruto the Indonesian macaque is coming to an end.  Naruto, a wild black macaque from Sulawesi picked up...

Hong Kong's IPD has completed a consultation on copyright law amendments and proposes the following, especially in relation to AI and...

As part of its plan to accelerate the building of a powerful IP economy, China is aiming to strengthen copyright protection in cyberspace...