Latest rulings, regulations, and developments in AI copyright law.
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin declined to grant final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright class settlement, ordering more detail on per-claimant payouts, attorney fees, and how the deal handles models trained on pirated books.
Read →RIAA's lawsuits against Suno and Udio reshaped how AI music is built and licensed. Here is where the cases stand in May 2026, what the Suno-Warner settlement means, and what creators and businesses should do next.
Read →A new class action filed May 13, 2026 in the Northern District of California sees 28 writers and book packagers, including Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, sue Anthropic over the use of their copyrighted works to train the Claude family of large language models.
Read →The Academy's 2026 AI rules made one thing clear: generative AI tools won't disqualify a film, but only human creativity earns Oscar gold. Here's how the rule mirrors US copyright law's human authorship doctrine.
Read →Two adult film studios filed a copyright suit alleging Meta used BitTorrent to download nearly 2,400 of their films to train Movie Gen and Llama, exposing the company to up to $359M in statutory damages and reviving the seeding question that already survived dismissal in the authors' case.
Read →The Court of Justice of the European Union on May 12, 2026 upheld Italy's right to make Meta negotiate fair compensation with press publishers, rejecting the tech giant's challenge in Case C-797/23 and clearing a path for stricter enforcement of the EU Copyright Directive across member states.
Read →A plain-English summary of the U.S. Copyright Office's Part 3 report on generative AI training, what it says about fair use, market harm, pirated training data, and why courts still cite it a year on.
Read →Under oath in the Musk v. OpenAI trial, OpenAI Foundation chair Bret Taylor acknowledged 'a lot of tension' between large language models and content companies, and said OpenAI's data licensing agreement with Reddit was struck to avoid copyright litigation — a rare public admission that reshapes how courts and creators may view AI training deals.
Read →Whether you've received a cease-and-desist letter, discovered your work in an AI training dataset, or need compliance counsel, this guide walks through how to find the right AI copyright attorney in 2026.
Read →Suryast U.S. Enterprises, represented by DABUS attorney Ryan Abbott, has sued Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter in the Central District of California, asking the court to overturn the Copyright Office's refusal to register an AI-assisted painting that India has already recognized.
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