Rather than, y'know, outright theft.

The Internet Archive has lost its appeal after book publishers successfully sued to block the Open Libraries Project from lending digital scans of books for free online. Judges for the Second Circuit ...

This is the first time a judge found that an AI company's use of copyrighted material is fair use. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

London Book Fair 2026: Alan Moore and Alice Oseman back the "Don't Steal This Book" book At London Book Fair 2026, 10,000 authors unite for the protest book Don’t Steal This Book. Alan Moore, Alice ...

For a regularly updated case tracker covering intellectual property and privacy-related lawsuits concerning GenAI (including more decisions addressing fair use), see Generative AI: Federal Litigation ...

A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me when I heard that the AI company Anthropic agreed to an at least $1.5 billion settlement for authors ...

Last month, I prompted Meta AI with a question: “Is it okay to use pirated books to train AI?” The machine’s response was unequivocal. “Using pirated books to train AI is not okay,” it admonished. “In ...

Generative AI has emerged as a transformative force in technology, creating text, art, music and code that can rival human efforts. However, its rise has sparked significant debates around copyright ...

At the London Book Fair 2026, a whopping 10,000 authors released blank books. Here’s why they pulled that move ...