copyright

"In many countries copyright and data protection laws are not being adequately adapted" to protect performers from AI clones, the International Federation of Actors said last year.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

And in December 2025, Europe's highest court ruled everyday commercial products can hold copyright if they represent creative design choices, a decision which Birkenstock said was relevant to its "iconic" sandals.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Michelle Lewis, a songwriter and the co-founder and chief executive of the nonprofit Songwriters of North America, said the composition side of that copyright split is often the harder one to defend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

As AI advancements upend the media industry, many publishers have employed a dual strategy: striking lucrative content-licensing deals with select tech companies, while suing others for copyright infringement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The emblem on the copyright page was nearly identical to the Bayside Press logo, but instead of a seagull there was a black bird.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

And celebrities with valuable intellectual property rights, such as copyrights from the Reiners’ many film and television properties, tend to establish trusts.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025

Alphabet’s Google is the biggest tech company to draw Disney’s ire for allegedly using copyright material to train its AI systems and allowing its tools to output material that violates copyrights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

The deal comes amid reports Disney lawyers sent Google a cease-and-desist letter on Wednesday accusing the tech firm of infringing its copyrights "on a massive scale".

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025

They alleged that Cox’s subscribers infringed their copyrights in sound recordings and musical compositions by copying and distributing them via BitTorrent and other networks.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2025

Just for fun, I can give it to Father on his birthday, together with all the copyrights.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

In 2024, Universal, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner sued Suno and Udio for copyright infringement, alleging the AI companies trained their models on copyrighted songs spanning many artists, genres and time periods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

But Olly - who has dealt with these before when he has mistakenly posted copyrighted material - says they are usually easy to deal with, and "you can easily tell the difference".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

In May, multiple publishers, including Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier and Turow, sued Meta in a New York court for allegedly stealing copyrighted content.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

The Justice Department’s letter spells out the government’s position that the use of copyrighted materials to train AI models doesn’t violate copyright law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

It was copyrighted 1972 by the Esso company.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

On the other hand, that can also be an advantage, said a 30-year-old pilot who goes by the name Makarena and worked in copyrighting before the war.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

This idea of thin copyright, and the idea that you might be copyrighting the curation of all of these different elements together.

From The Verge ● Sep. 15, 2021

Senior manager of LHI Sonia Mora said the county is in the process of copyrighting Abuelina and her family members to ensure they are not used for commercial purposes.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2021

Some counterfeiters are going as far as to claim Orwell’s classics as their own property, copyrighting them with their own names.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2019

The practice of some publishers in copyrighting a magazine and also specific articles or engravings seems, therefore, a work of doubtful expediency.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker