copyright

Last year, Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Character.AI, alleging copyright infringement of its well-known characters, including Elsa, Moana, Peter Parker and Darth Vader.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The filing—from publishers suing Microsoft and OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement—suggests top staff at the companies thought that scraping news sites to train AI models could ultimately damage or destroy those publications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

But he was hit by more copyright strikes immediately after he paid.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Esso suspected copyright infringement and prepared several lawsuits, but in fact, an unknown resident had built “The Agloe General Store” at the intersection that appeared on the Esso map.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

Trademarks, unlike copyrights or patents, are intellectual property that are not premised on creating value for whoever registers them; they’re about protecting consumers.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

Now they sell AI-created images with the guarantee that these don’t infringe copyrights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 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

But when Fabyan printed the pamphlets, he claimed the copyrights for himself.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

BBC Newsbeat has obtained the filings, first reported by video game website Kotaku, external, demanding Microsoft-owned site GitHub and chat app Discord turn over the user details of accounts thought to be sharing "copyrighted material".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The fact that AI-generated text can’t be copyrighted has made it one of the hard lines the industry has been able to enforce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

It was copyrighted 1972 by the Esso company.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

The nonprofit recently trademarked its name and is in the process of copyrighting its livestream.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026

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

Its widespread use has been facilitated by Kruger’s disinterest in copyrighting her work.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

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

With these in hand and with information from the selling department as to the day when the book is to be published, the clerk in charge will then take the first step toward copyrighting it.

From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Frederick H. Hitchcock