Copyright
The latest Copyright coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
SZA's 238-Song AI Training Discovery Exposes Deep Copyright Rift in Music Tech
{ "title": "SZA's 238-Song AI Training Discovery Exposes Deep Copyright Rift in Music Tech", "content": "On June 21, 2026, multi-platinum artist SZA revealed a shocking discovery: 238 of her...
MediaNews Group Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Training Data Copyright
Nine major regional newspapers owned by MediaNews Group have launched a landmark copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the tech giants systematically copied and used their...
Meta's AI Copyright Battle: Legal Challenges Over Training Data Sourcing
Meta is currently embroiled in a high-stakes legal confrontation that could reshape how artificial intelligence companies source training data, facing allegations that the company pirated thousands...
Sora AI Video App Sparks Debate Over Deepfake Risks and Safety Measures
OpenAI's groundbreaking Sora AI video generation app has exploded onto the scene, rocketing to the top of the U.S. App Store charts within days of its invite-only iOS debut. The rapid surge in...
How Google, Meta, and Microsoft Built AI on Scraped Copyrighted Content While Banning Everyone Else
A two-year investigation by the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) has compiled what it calls "the largest IP theft in human history"—a dossier alleging that Google, Microsoft,...
Microsoft’s GUI Copyright Gambit Could Obliterate Europe’s Second-Hand Software Market
Microsoft is pushing a novel legal theory that the graphical user interface and other non-code elements of Windows and Office are separate copyrighted works not subject to exhaustion—a doctrine...
Microsoft’s Copyright Gambit Could End the Resale of Used Office and Windows Licenses
Microsoft has advanced a provocative legal argument that threatens to upend the decades-old European market for second‑hand software licences. In a preliminary issues trial that opened this week...
ICMP Dossier Exposes AI's Copyrighted Music Heist: Google, Microsoft, Meta Implicated
The International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) has compiled a damning dossier that accuses the world's largest AI companies of harvesting tens of millions of copyrighted songs without...
Perplexity's Comet Plus Launches with $42.5M Publisher Fund and 80% Revenue Split
Perplexity is putting $42.5 million behind a bet that direct cash payments can mend the broken relationship between AI answer engines and the newsrooms that supply their raw material. The company’s...
YouTube Secretly Altered Shorts Using Machine Learning—Now an Opt-Out Is on the Way
YouTube’s quiet experiment to polish Shorts clips with machine learning has ignited a firestorm among creators who say the platform altered their work without permission—and without disclosure....
Free AI From Microsoft, Meta, and Google Lets Anyone Create Unique Independence Day GIFs and Videos
This year, millions of Indians will not just forward the same tired WhatsApp sticker packs for Independence Day. Instead, they’ll craft personalized GIFs, images, and short video wishes in minutes...
What a Patriots-Commanders Preseason Image Reveals About Hidden Photo Metadata and Licensing Perils
A single wire photograph from an August preseason NFL game between the New England Patriots and Washington Commanders, credited to the Idaho State Journal, has become an unexpected case study in the...