Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now DistroKid has confirmed to The Verge that the takedowns are a direct response to claims made by UMG. The label filed a lawsuit in September claiming that DistroKid has created an “AI-slop pipeline.” Artists are saying that
A host of copyright infringement lawsuits filed by news organizations against the ChatGPT developer OpenAI are heading toward a new phase, and the Trump administration’s intervention is raising the question of just how costly it would be for AI companies to pay to license the content their models are trained on. The cases include those
The White House has removed the “Build the Wall” game — a Tetris knockoff in which players were tasked with fortifying the southern U.S. border to keep out illegal immigrants — after the company that owns the rights to the popular title issued a statement saying it “take[s] copyright infringement very seriously.” Trump’s White House
The White House has taken down a Tetris-style game on its website called “Build The Wall”, days after The Tetris Company raised concerns over its use of the game’s likeness. The game, which saw players stack blocks to build a wall to “protect the border” is one of five arcade games which have appeared on
Writer Lauren J. Salkin has accused Taylor Sheridan of stealing his marquee series “Yellowstone” from her 2016 pitch in a lawsuit filed on Friday. 101 Studios, Paramount and Elevate Entertainment are also listed as defendants. Reps for Sheridan, 101 Studios, Paramount and Elevate Entertainment did not immediately respond to Variety’s request for comment. In the
The independent music publisher Round Hill Music sued Suno and Anthropic, accusing the two AI companies in a federal court in California of infringing its copyright by illegally scraping hundreds of its songs to train their models without permission. Round Hill, which owns the rights to songs such as Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the
