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Blackbeard Copyright Lawsuit Sails Forward in NC
North Carolina’s Department of Natural and Cultural Resources received a stern reminder that those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it.
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North Carolina’s Department of Natural and Cultural Resources received a stern reminder that those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it.
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Judge Colleen McMahon held that “substitutive summaries”—non-verbatim outputs that mirror the expressive structure and journalistic storytelling choices of the originals—may plausibly infringe copyright. That was enough to let the claims move forward.
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Court Rules AI News Summaries May Infringe Copyright
News publishers just cleared a key hurdle against Cohere in a copyright fight over AI-generated "substitutive summaries" of their reporting.
copyrightlately.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Judge Colleen McMahon held that “substitutive summaries”—non-verbatim outputs that mirror the expressive structure and journalistic storytelling choices of the originals—may plausibly infringe copyright. That was enough to let the claims move forward.
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Trouble On The Horizon for Blackbeard!
November 17, 1718: Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood provides funds for the hire of two light, fast sloops setting a course for Ocracoke Inlet, NC and a confrontation with Blackbeard.
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November 17, 1718: Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood provides funds for the hire of two light, fast sloops setting a course for Ocracoke Inlet, NC and a confrontation with Blackbeard.
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Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge
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November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Trouble On The Horizon for Blackbeard!
November 17, 1718: Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood provides funds for the hire of two light, fast sloops setting a course for Ocracoke Inlet, NC and a confrontation with Blackbeard.
blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2018/11/trou...
November 17, 1718: Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood provides funds for the hire of two light, fast sloops setting a course for Ocracoke Inlet, NC and a confrontation with Blackbeard.
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Videographer Rick Allen says North Carolina illegally copied his work without permission or payment. More than a decade later, he’s still trying to get paid.
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Avast! Fayetteville Man Continues Lawsuit Against State Over Footage of Blackbeard’s Ship
After 12 years, Rick Allen of Fayetteville is still fighting NC officials in court over photos and videos he made of Blackbeard's pirate ship
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November 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Videographer Rick Allen says North Carolina illegally copied his work without permission or payment. More than a decade later, he’s still trying to get paid.
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The court found that both the memorisation in the language models and the reproduction of the song lyrics in the chatbot's outputs constitute infringements of copyright exploitation rights, according to a statement on the ruling.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The court found that both the memorisation in the language models and the reproduction of the song lyrics in the chatbot's outputs constitute infringements of copyright exploitation rights, according to a statement on the ruling.
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According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750.
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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750.
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There’s a reason that copyright law has never embraced an opt-out system and that’s because opt-out systems do not work. There are many legal, technical, operational, and policy problems and inefficiencies with an opt-out system.
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Why AI Opt-Out Systems Don’t Work | Copyright Alliance
Throughout the history of the United States, our copyright system has always been an opt-in system. That means if someone wants to use a copyrighted work, they have to get permission from the copyrigh...
copyrightalliance.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
There’s a reason that copyright law has never embraced an opt-out system and that’s because opt-out systems do not work. There are many legal, technical, operational, and policy problems and inefficiencies with an opt-out system.
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The family of the American artist Norman Rockwell has called upon federal agencies to stop using the artist’s work in content promoting the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies.
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Rockwell Family Denounces DHS Posts
The family of Norman Rockwell has called upon federal agencies to stop using the artist’s work in content promoting anti-immigration policies.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The family of the American artist Norman Rockwell has called upon federal agencies to stop using the artist’s work in content promoting the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies.
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There’s a principle that keeps a free market free: You can’t take what isn’t yours and sell it as your own. Yet, that is precisely what some of the most prominent players in artificial intelligence are doing.
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AI’s Free Ride on Creative Labor Is Undermining the Marketplace – DC Journal - InsideSources
There’s a principle that keeps a free market free: You can’t take what isn’t yours and sell it as your own. Yet, that is precisely what some of the most
dcjournal.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
There’s a principle that keeps a free market free: You can’t take what isn’t yours and sell it as your own. Yet, that is precisely what some of the most prominent players in artificial intelligence are doing.
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“These AI-generated synthetic imitations involuntarily resurrect iconic music performers, sports figures and actors without consent, context, or compensation—reducing cultural heritage to algorithmic spectacle and gratuitous ridicule,” it blasts.
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Musicians’ heirs hit out at AI deepfakes as 'digital grave robbing’
The debates about how AI technology should be regulated continue, with the latest views coming from a group of organisations and heirs.
musically.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“These AI-generated synthetic imitations involuntarily resurrect iconic music performers, sports figures and actors without consent, context, or compensation—reducing cultural heritage to algorithmic spectacle and gratuitous ridicule,” it blasts.
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musically.com/2025/10/28/m...
Blackbeard's Henchmen Escape Prison!
Gentleman pirate, Stede Bonnet, and the other two escape from prison with local help on this day. A sizeable £700 reward is posted for their re-capture.
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Gentleman pirate, Stede Bonnet, and the other two escape from prison with local help on this day. A sizeable £700 reward is posted for their re-capture.
blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2018/10/blac...
Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge
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October 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Blackbeard's Henchmen Escape Prison!
Gentleman pirate, Stede Bonnet, and the other two escape from prison with local help on this day. A sizeable £700 reward is posted for their re-capture.
blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2018/10/blac...
Gentleman pirate, Stede Bonnet, and the other two escape from prison with local help on this day. A sizeable £700 reward is posted for their re-capture.
blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2018/10/blac...
Blackbeard Gets A Promotion!
October 24, 1717: Blackbeard, takes command of a 12-gun sloop which he renames the Revenge. He also captures a Snow named the Sea Nymph which he adds to his growing pirate fleet.
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October 24, 1717: Blackbeard, takes command of a 12-gun sloop which he renames the Revenge. He also captures a Snow named the Sea Nymph which he adds to his growing pirate fleet.
blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2020/10/blac...
Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge
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October 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Blackbeard Gets A Promotion!
October 24, 1717: Blackbeard, takes command of a 12-gun sloop which he renames the Revenge. He also captures a Snow named the Sea Nymph which he adds to his growing pirate fleet.
blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2020/10/blac...
October 24, 1717: Blackbeard, takes command of a 12-gun sloop which he renames the Revenge. He also captures a Snow named the Sea Nymph which he adds to his growing pirate fleet.
blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2020/10/blac...
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“That doesn’t mean that the state then has free license to violate due process by infringing copyrights freely. Just because we can’t sue them doesn’t mean it’s right to infringe, doesn’t mean it’s right to steal property.”
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Fourth Circuit appears posed to reject renewed Blackbeard copyright suit
A now-repealed law allowed a North Carolina agency to publish copyrighted photos of Blackbeard's pirate ship, but the owner of those photos says the state violated his due process rights.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“That doesn’t mean that the state then has free license to violate due process by infringing copyrights freely. Just because we can’t sue them doesn’t mean it’s right to infringe, doesn’t mean it’s right to steal property.”
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ICE in Portland: “Dear God, they’re Jazzercising in formation! Light ‘em up!”
October 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
ICE in Portland: “Dear God, they’re Jazzercising in formation! Light ‘em up!”
Blackbeard A Pirating!
October 22, 1717: Blackbeard and his pirate crew on the Revenge plunder the sloops Robert of Philadelphia and the Good Intent of Dublin and empty their cargo holds.
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October 22, 1717: Blackbeard and his pirate crew on the Revenge plunder the sloops Robert of Philadelphia and the Good Intent of Dublin and empty their cargo holds.
blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2018/10/blac...
Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge
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October 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Blackbeard A Pirating!
October 22, 1717: Blackbeard and his pirate crew on the Revenge plunder the sloops Robert of Philadelphia and the Good Intent of Dublin and empty their cargo holds.
blackbeardsqueenannesrevenge.blogspot.com/2018/10/blac...
October 22, 1717: Blackbeard and his pirate crew on the Revenge plunder the sloops Robert of Philadelphia and the Good Intent of Dublin and empty their cargo holds.
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Families of at least 11 federal judges who've ruled against Trump in many politically charged lawsuits have been targeted with threats & harassment by Felon Trump, his enablers & MAGA. He pardoned 1,500 Jan6 criminals so they could be his private militia.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Families of at least 11 federal judges who've ruled against Trump in many politically charged lawsuits have been targeted with threats & harassment by Felon Trump, his enablers & MAGA. He pardoned 1,500 Jan6 criminals so they could be his private militia.
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Pillars of Our Mission Learn where we stand on core issues affecting writers. Copyright We are dedicated to preserving effective copyright protection so authors can make a living writing. Learn More F...
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November 13, 2024 at 3:44 PM
The Authors Guild exists to support working writers.
Learn what we're doing about AI:
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The deal is simultaneously groundbreaking and trivial, a paradox that reveals how artificial intelligence has fundamentally altered the economics of copyright infringement.
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Anthropic’s $1.5 Billion Speeding Ticket
It’s the largest copyright settlement in history. But for Anthropic, it’s a toll booth, not a stop sign.
copyrightlately.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The deal is simultaneously groundbreaking and trivial, a paradox that reveals how artificial intelligence has fundamentally altered the economics of copyright infringement.
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The Trump administration has said it intends to audit exhibitions and holdings at eight Smithsonian Institution museums to determine whether they align with the "President's directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive [and] partisan narratives.”
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Photographer Sally Mann warns of 'new era of culture wars' after art seizure
As she reflects on her career in a second memoir, Sally Mann warns of a "new era of culture wars" after police pulled several photographs she took of her children decades ago off the walls of a museum...
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September 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The Trump administration has said it intends to audit exhibitions and holdings at eight Smithsonian Institution museums to determine whether they align with the "President's directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive [and] partisan narratives.”
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The United States has a long history of leading the world in innovation and creativity. This leadership is the result of, and is dependent on, established and strong U.S. intellectual property laws.
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Setting the Record Straight About America’s Copyright and AI Policy | Copyright Alliance
With U.S. policymakers and judges considering the very important question of how copyright law applies in the context of AI, especially AI training, there’s been an unfortunate deluge of falsehoods an...
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September 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The United States has a long history of leading the world in innovation and creativity. This leadership is the result of, and is dependent on, established and strong U.S. intellectual property laws.
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The amended complaint against Suno maintains that the AI music startup fed “decades worth of the world’s most popular sound recordings” into its AI models without authorization from record companies.
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Record labels claim AI generator Suno illegally ripped their songs from YouTube
Putting fair use to the test.
www.theverge.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The amended complaint against Suno maintains that the AI music startup fed “decades worth of the world’s most popular sound recordings” into its AI models without authorization from record companies.
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The court reportedly was skeptical that OpenAI can escape liability by shifting the responsibility to users of ChatGPT who seek and obtain the outputs of song lyrics.
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Munich Regional I Court preliminarily indicates OpenAI liable for copyright infringement of song lyrics. Decision on Nov. 11, 2025.
Florian Mueller of AI Fray provides an excellent summary of the trial held by Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court) in the lawsuit filed by GEMA, the collecting society representing autho…
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October 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The court reportedly was skeptical that OpenAI can escape liability by shifting the responsibility to users of ChatGPT who seek and obtain the outputs of song lyrics.
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The acting guild believes “creativity is, and should remain, human-centered” and “is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.”
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AI Actress Tilly Norwood Condemned by SAG-AFTRA: Tilly ‘Is Not an Actor… It Has No Life Experience to Draw From, No Emotion’
SAG-AFTRA issued a statement on the AI 'actress' Tilly Norwood, saying she is not a real performer and can never be.
variety.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The acting guild believes “creativity is, and should remain, human-centered” and “is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.”
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The creative economy is one of America’s most valuable exports. Hollywood movies dominate box offices from Seoul to São Paulo, American music and streaming platforms set global tastes, and U.S. publishing supplies the backbone of education worldwide.
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In the fight over AI, copyright is America’s competitive weapon
Recently, a new $100 million super-PAC network, Leading the Future, was introduced to shape artificial intelligence policy in next year’s elections. The group says it will fight for sensible guardr…
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October 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The creative economy is one of America’s most valuable exports. Hollywood movies dominate box offices from Seoul to São Paulo, American music and streaming platforms set global tastes, and U.S. publishing supplies the backbone of education worldwide.
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In the studios’ new cases, the tools’ mimicking copyrighted material “appears to be a feature rather than a bug.”
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Disney’s Output Focus Puts Fresh Spin on AI Copyright Litigation
Disney, Warner Bros., and other entertainment giants put a new twist on the copyright war against generative AI by focusing lawsuits on audiovisual outputs rather than training data, altering both the...
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October 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
In the studios’ new cases, the tools’ mimicking copyrighted material “appears to be a feature rather than a bug.”
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Facing backlash, OpenAI reverses course: rightsholders will decide whether their copyrighted characters can be generated by the Sora 2 video app, with revenue sharing for those who opt in.
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Sora, Not Sorry: OpenAI Backtracks on Opt-Out Copyright Policy
OpenAI, facing backlash, will now let rightsholders decide whether their characters appear in Sora 2, with revenue sharing for those who opt in.
copyrightlately.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Facing backlash, OpenAI reverses course: rightsholders will decide whether their copyrighted characters can be generated by the Sora 2 video app, with revenue sharing for those who opt in.
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