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The different types of AI-inspired losses range from bodily injury and property damage—caused by, say, an error-prone factory robot—to copyright infringement, unauthorized data disclosures, hallucinated errors and regulatory penalties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Character.ai has also faced copyright infringement claims about the virtual characters users create on its platform.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
If someone makes the Sailor Slippers, you can talk to them about how the original creator filed a copyright takedown against a designer who adapted the pattern for crochet.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026
Matthew Sammon, a chartered trademark attorney at Sonder & Clay, said copyright belonged to the person who took the photo.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Agloe, New York, is a fictitious village created by the Esso company in the early 1930s and inserted into tourist maps as a copyright trap, or paper town.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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Songs typically carry two copyrights — one for the composition, usually held by songwriters and their publishers, and one for the sound recording, usually owned by the label.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
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
Disney’s letter accused Google of “infringing Disney’s copyrights on a massive scale.”
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
But when Fabyan printed the pamphlets, he claimed the copyrights for himself.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
The Times' lawsuit partly hinges on the limited "fair use" exception, which permits copyrighted work to be used without the rights holders' consent.
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
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She said she had been running her own copyrighting business, but found herself struggling while devoting thousands of hours getting ready for her legal fight.
From BBC ● May 10, 2023
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
Its widespread use has been facilitated by Kruger’s disinterest in copyrighting her work.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
“If we start copyrighting the building blocks, can we keep developing new material?”
From The Verge ● Sep. 15, 2021
The average quality prints are not likely to be stolen, and so the copyrighting of them is unnecessary.
From Making Your Camera Pay by Frederick C. Davis
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