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Indian creators lobby for protection against AI use and misuse
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
Nick Redfearn
Oct 161 min read
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Bollywood stars sue YouTube over AI videos
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
Nick Redfearn
Oct 141 min read
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India's IAMAI Applauds MIB’s New Anti‑Piracy Task Force to Boost India’s Creative Economy
As reported by Storyboard18, the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has welcomed the Ministry of Information and...
Oliver Walsh
Aug 261 min read
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How an Indian Anti-Piracy Order for the FIFA Club World Cup Could End Up Affecting the Whole Internet
The global reach of Indian court orders continues to expand, with the latest example being a FIFA Club World Cup piracy-blocking order...
Oliver Walsh
Jun 261 min read
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