AI in film, music, publishing, games, and design, including copyright disputes, licensing deals, and how working artists are affected.
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Disputes over AI and creative work turn on a few separate questions about training data, generated output, and who can own it, and the answers differ by country.
Evidence: 1 source · 1 official record
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The acquisition brings Songdex and Blokur into Musixmatch’s rights business; claims of better matching and agentic royalty management remain company ambitions.
Evidence: 2 sources · 1 official record · 1 independent report · 2 open questions
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Spotify’s new disclosure concerns recommendation filtering; a separate 75-million removal figure dates to 2025 and should not be treated as a new 2026 total.
Evidence: 2 sources · 1 official record · 1 independent report · 2 open questions
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Independent music company Believe has licensed its catalog for Spotify's forthcoming paid AI remix and covers tool, the fourth rights-holder deal for the product, which has not launched and has no announced price.
Evidence: 4 sources · 1 official record · 3 independent reports · 4 open questions
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A federal magistrate judge in California has ordered Meta to identify everyone who decided to obtain shadow-library book datasets for its Llama models; it is a discovery order, and no court has found Meta liable for the downloads.
Evidence: 3 sources · 3 independent reports · 3 open questions
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The Third Circuit upheld a ruling that ROSS Intelligence infringed Thomson Reuters' copyrights by training a legal research tool on Westlaw headnotes, the first US appellate fair-use ruling on AI training, though the court said it was not deciding questions about generative AI.
Evidence: 5 sources · 2 official records · 3 independent reports · 3 open questions
