Browsing: Lawsuit
Court fights involving technology companies, explained with the claims, the evidence, the likely outcomes and what a ruling would actually change.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic and named Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally, seeking up to $150,000 per song over Claude’s training data.
You can use movie clips on YouTube only with a license, from a public domain film, or under a genuine fair use argument. Here is how the four factors apply to film footage, how Content ID claims differ from copyright strikes, and where to get footage nobody will claim.
Gal Gadot says it took her lawyers six months to write the AI terms for Doug Liman’s Bitcoin, and that SAG-AFTRA rang them afterward asking how it was done. The clause protects her performance completely. It protects nobody who built the sets, because the sets were the point.
A Washington Post review found chatbot transcripts surfacing in a dozen public court cases in two years. Conversations with an AI carry none of the legal protection that covers a doctor, a lawyer or a therapist, and on a work account an administrator can usually read them outright. Here is who has access to what.
A Taiwanese man opened his robot vacuum’s app to talk to his wife, found a live camera feed and another man, and hit record. The footage won him NT$500,000 in civil damages and a five month sentence for unlawful recording. Most robot vacuum owners have never checked who can still log in.
Bricks & Minifigs has settled with the Mansell family over a LEGO Star Wars collection worth up to $200,000 that went missing after a consignment deal. The YouTuber whose videos made the case impossible to ignore is still facing the company in court.
Demon Hunter, a Christian metalcore band that has used the name for 25 years, is suing Netflix and AEG Presents over KPop Demon Hunters. The fan who paid $500 for the wrong concert is now evidence, and the band is asking for triple damages.
404 Media hid an Apple AirTag inside a bulk order of roughly 1,000 secondhand books and followed the shipment across four states. It stopped at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, at a unit whose job is to cut the spines off books, scan the loose pages for AI training, and throw the originals away.
France’s Constitutional Council struck down the under-15 social media ban on August 14, weeks before it was due to take effect. The ruling was not about whether kids should be online. It was about how broadly the law was written and how badly it handled age verification.
Starzak explained that “it’s called authoritative because it’s the side that’s giving the information. It’s then taken by the [DNS]…