copyright

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The New York Times is in a legal fight with OpenAI over copyright infringement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

For licensing reasons, you have to be transparent about the origin of your image, because A.I. works are not copyright.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

At issue was whether cable provider Cox could be held liable for “contributory” copyright infringement merely because it had knowledge that some of its users were pirating music files.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

But the high court said that is not enough to establish liability for copyright infringement.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

This idea long precedes the legal claim to authorial copyright, which did not exist in British law until 1710, and was established later elsewhere.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton