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A federal judge blocked Minnesota's law banning prediction markets, ruling that many trades qualify as swaps under federal jurisdiction, while allowing the state to potentially prohibit certain types of event contracts.
Google and Reddit lost a court case where they used the DMCA to sue web scraper SerpApi; the judge dismissed the lawsuit, ruling Google lacked standing under the DMCA because it did not own copyrighted content in search results.
A judge rejected Google's defense under the DMCA to avoid liability for being scraped, a significant ruling for web scraping and copyright law.
An activist faces federal charges after using a duress code on his GrapheneOS-powered Pixel phone to wipe data during a border interrogation, highlighting tensions between privacy rights and government surveillance.
This paper introduces Copyright-Bench, a benchmark to evaluate LLM agents' compliance with copyright law in commercial tasks. Experiments show agents often select copyrighted works even when legal alternatives exist, and violation rates increase under certain user preferences and time pressure.
US prosecutors charge Sam Tunick after his GrapheneOS phone factory reset during an airport search, raising legal questions about privacy-focused operating systems and constitutional rights at borders.
The article examines how AI systems' lack of legal responsibility creates a burgeoning market for human accountability, insurance, and liability services, using the Air Canada chatbot ruling as a key example.
A court ruled that ChatGPT users are non-parties with no standing to object to their conversation logs being handed over to the New York Times in the OpenAI copyright case, highlighting the gap between company privacy promises and legal reality.
Meta avoids a trial in a social media addiction lawsuit as the plaintiff drops the case, marking a win for Meta after previous losses.
A pastor who used ChatGPT for medical advice instead of consulting a doctor is now suing OpenAI, highlighting the risks of relying on AI for health decisions.
Nintendo argues in court that customers voluntarily paid higher prices due to tariffs and have no legal right to refunds, as class-action lawsuits over tariff costs mount against various companies.
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement requiring Anthropic to pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train its Claude chatbot, marking the largest known copyright recovery in history.
A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, offering approximately $3,000 per pirated book in what is called the largest known copyright recovery in history.
Apple successfully defeats liability claims for not scanning iCloud for CSAM, with the court ruling Section 230 immunity applies, though the judge expressed displeasure with Apple's actions.
Anthropic is being sued for allegedly using copyrighted books without permission to train its large language models.
Sony Music Entertainment has filed a new lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, alleging copyright infringement over more than 30,000 songs, including tracks by Beyoncé, Elvis Presley, and Harry Styles.
The federal court approved a $1.5 billion class-action settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic AI copyright lawsuit, awarding $101.5 million in attorneys' fees.
Apple has sent legal preservation letters to approximately 40 former employees now at OpenAI, expanding its trade secret lawsuit against the AI company. The lawsuit alleges OpenAI recruited Apple engineers and misappropriated confidential hardware and product development information.
A CEO used ChatGPT to devise a scheme to avoid paying $250 million in bonuses to employees, ignoring legal advice; the scheme failed in court, and he had to pay.
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a pattern of misconduct and hiring over 400 former Apple employees, which could disrupt OpenAI's IPO plans later this year.