Filing: Disney sues YouTube, claiming breach of contract after YouTube hired longtime Disney executive Justin Connolly as its global head of media and sports
Here's Why Todd Spangler / Sportico : YouTube's Hiring of Disney Exec for Sports Role Prompts Lawsuit Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter : Disney Sues YouTube Over Poaching Exec Ahead of Licensing R...
OpenAI launches Sora in select countries; ChatGPT Pro offers up to 500 videos per month at up to 1080p, and ChatGPT Plus offers up to 50 videos at up to 720p
OpenAI has officially launched Sora, its text-to-video AI model, as part of its “12 Days of OpenAI” event. Megan Morrone / Axios : OpenAI launches Sora video generator Dwayne Oxford / Al Jazeera : Wha...
The US FTC adopts its final “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up, after proposing the rule in 2023
WOOT. … Rebekah Valentine / IGN : FTC New ‘Click to Cancel’ Rule Will Make it Easier to Cancel Subscription Services Justin Bachman / Payments Dive : FTC unveils final ‘click-to-cancel’ rule for consu...
Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors suing the company access to review its training data to see if OpenAI used authors' copyrighted works
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Division in Hollywood's approach to AI is growing, as some studios want to use AI tools more often in production, while unions aim to establish guardrails
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Startup Fable Studio announces Showrunner, a streaming service that lets users watch AI-generated series and create their own series by writing prompts
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The MPA announces plans to work with US Congress to enact a SOPA-like anti-piracy law; SOPA was fiercely opposed by the tech industry and failed to pass in 2012
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Twitter's former CEO, CFO, legal chief, and general counsel sue Elon Musk over allegedly $128M+ in unpaid severance and Musk's claim he had cause to fire them
with program advice from Cisco and Salesforce Ryan Dinsdale / IGN : Elon Musk and X/Twitter Sued for $128 Million Over Alleged Unpaid Severance Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Former Twitter/X executives sue ...
The George Carlin estate sues Dudesy, which released a comedy special featuring an AI-generated recreation of George Carlin, alleging copyright infringement
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OpenAI responds to The New York Times' lawsuit: training is fair use and there is an opt-out, “regurgitation” is a rare bug, and NYT “manipulated” its models
written evidence (LLM0113) Dan Milmo / The Guardian : ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says Ryan Daws / AI News : Copyrighted data ‘impossible’ to avo...