After AI companies hit the wall to gather high-quality data to train their AI models, companies like OpenAI are alleged to have transcribed a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4.
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OpenAI is claiming that The New York Times hacked ChatGPT to get the evidence for its lawsuit, where Microsoft and OpenAI were accused of infringing rights and copying articles from the Times.
The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement. The Times claims millions of its articles were used to train AI models from both companies.
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A God of War rip-off called “War Gods Zeus of Child” has now been pulled from the Xbox Store after being listed for $3.99. However, a Fall Guys clone from the same developer is still available.
Google Drive has been flagging innocent files as copyright infringement. Google has said that it will take a look at the issue to see if it can make the problem go away after the issue was replicated.
Nintendo has settled for $12 million in a lawsuit that it filed against a married couple who were operating ROM sites. The accused have also signed off the websites, games, and emulators to Nintendo.
Reddit has started banning several communities which exist for the sole purpose of promoting pirated content. Multiple subreddits which posted links to movies and TV shows have been closed for good.
According to reports, the developer of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has filed a copyright infringement case against Epic Games, likely due to the similarities between PUBG and Fortnite.
A ruling by a New York federal court this week about a Tom Brady image could upend internet tradition as it suggests embedding a tweet containing an image could be seen as copyright infringement.
Crytek has filed a lawsuit against Cloud Imperium Games, the developer of Star Citizen, alleging it to be in breach of contract; the Star Citizen developer has called it "a meritless lawsuit".
A channel on Telegram has been blocked due to the illegal proliferation of copyrighted audio content. The move comes as the Russian IT watchdog starts allowing take down requests of copyrighted works.
Blizzard and its Chinese operator for Overwatch are taking Heroes of Warfare, a mobile game that looks eerily similar to Blizzard's own team-based shooter, to court in China over copyright concerns.
German software-maker, Bitmanagement, has sued the US Navy for deploying copies of its 3D virtual reality software on more computers than it had licenses for, and is now seeking a $600M settlement.
After facing a prolonged stalemate over cost estimates, Village Roadshow co-CEO Graham Burke announced a backdown from a voluntary anti-piracy scheme to be ratified in conjunction with Aussie ISPs.
Comcast has begun using dubious methods to alert users that it is infringing copyright. The method being used is called a man-in-the-middle attack usually employed by hackers to steal data.
The list of sites that UK ISPs are requested to block by copyright holders has been updated, and now includes more popular examples such as Demonoid, and even sites that sell counterfeit luxury goods.
One of the long-running legal battles between Google and Oracle over Android's use of the Java API has finally reached the Supreme Court, where it has been tossed out for the time being.
A browser-based version of Super Mario 64 developed using the Unity game engine has been forced to shutdown by Nintendo for violating its copyrights and intellectual property.
Under a draft code published today by UK communications regulator Ofcom, ISPs could be eligible to send warning letters to copyright infringers by 2014. This gives ISPs rights to monitor user activity.
In June 2010, the U.S. Government seized the video-sharing site NinjaVideo.net. Two weeks ago, the government filed charges, and a co-founder of the site has now pleaded guilty.
One has to wonder why the largest ISPs in America- Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T - are signing on to the new "six strikes" plan. Ars Technica asked Verizon's Ed McFadden, and he said Verizon is...
The saga apparently does continue. As was previously reported by Neowin, American ISPs have agreed to a "six strikes" voluntary contract with the music and movie industry. Users cannot appeal the first "alert", nor the...
The Pirate Bay is having a bad time after losing the court case about copyright infringement, and the threat of spending up to a year behind bars due to the massive public torrent web site....
