In California, Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed two new laws, vowing to safeguard the digital images of actors and other performers. These bills aim to protect actors from the unauthorized use of their digital likenesses or voices both during their lifetimes and posthumously. This move comes against the backdrop of growing concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor of artists. In a video posted on social media, Newsom stated: 'We talk about California as the state of dreams and doers. Many dreamers come here, but sometimes their voices are not fully represented.'

Recently, Google was sued by a company named Gemini Data for its newly launched AI service 'Gemini'. Gemini Data is a company that offers an enterprise-level AI platform and believes that Google used their registered trademark without legal authorization. The sequence of events is as follows: in February 2023, Google changed the name of its generative AI service from 'Bard' to 'Gemini', and prior to this, in December 2023,

On August 30, Jinjiang Literature City issued a statement firmly opposing the recent AI infringement incident on the Xiaohongshu platform, emphasizing the protection of copyright for original content. In this incident, a blogger used original works on the platform to train an AI model and generate text, even establishing a group to share tutorials to attract traffic. Jinjiang Literature City believes this action severely infringes on the rights of authors and has sent a rights protection letter to the Xiaohongshu platform demanding the removal of infringing content and accounts. The platform stated it will continue to monitor such infringing behavior and resolutely protect authors' legitimate rights, explicitly indicating that it will not tolerate any theft of works.

The California Senate has passed Bill AB2602, aimed at protecting performers from unauthorized artificial intelligence digital replicas. It requires explicit consent before using a performer’s digital likeness. The bill is similar to SAG-AFTRA's contract from last year and extends protections to other performance forms such as video games, audiobooks, and advertisements, including non-union work. It passed both the House and Senate with strong support and will be reviewed again before being sent to the governor. SAG-AFTRA is also advocating for the federal 'No Fakes Act'.

A San Francisco-based AI startup, Anthropic, is facing a lawsuit from a group of writers for allegedly using a large number of pirated books in the training of its chatbot Claude. This marks the first time writers have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, accusing its actions of 'mocking its lofty goals' and utilizing pirated resources to build AI products. The complaint states that Anthropic is attempting to profit from the human expression and creativity behind each work. The plaintiffs include writers Andrea Bartz and Charles Graeb.

Recently, the Mita AI Search team received a lengthy 28-page copyright notice from the China Academic Journals Electronic Publishing House (CNKI). The notice stated that Mita AI Search has been providing users with a large volume of citations and abstract data of CNKI academic literature through its platform without obtaining permission from CNKI, and this behavior is considered a serious infringement of CNKI's legitimate rights and interests.

In a pivotal copyright infringement lawsuit, a judge ruled that visual artists' lawsuits against well-known AI image and video generation companies can proceed and enter the discovery phase. The artists accuse these companies of using their works without permission to train AI models, including Midjourney, Runway, Stability AI, and DeviantArt. The crux of the case is whether the AI companies constitute 'induced infringement.' The judge indicated that the allegations are strong enough to warrant further investigation.

Today, the Beijing Internet Court heard a case regarding the infringement of personal rights due to AI-generated voices, ultimately ruling in favor of the plaintiff. The plaintiff, Yin XX, is a voice actor who discovered that his voice had been digitized and was being sold on a platform operated by the defendant, a smart technology company.

Recently, the Japanese publishing industry has issued a stern warning about AI-driven search engines, arguing that these emerging technologies are eroding the foundations of the news industry. The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association has stated that AI search engines are exploiting the content of news media without fair compensation, a phenomenon known as "free-riding." This means that AI systems profit from news content without providing support for its creation and the news ecosy

The non-profit Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), known for producing in-depth reports such as 'Mother Jones' and 'Reveal', announced on Thursday that it will file a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, accusing the two companies of using its content without permission and infringing copyright. Previously, The New York Times and several other media outlets have also taken similar legal actions.

The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of using copyrighted materials to train their AI models. A complaint filed in federal court in New York alleges that OpenAI used CIR's content without permission or payment.

Several major record labels have jointly sued two AI startups, accusing them of using copyrighted music without permission to train their music generation models, resulting in audio that infringes on commercial copyrights. The lawsuit was coordinated by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and involves the defendants Uncharted Labs, which developed Udio, and Suno, based in Massachusetts.

The Beijing Internet Court recently heard two cases of 'AI face-swap' software infringement, marking Beijing's first such case. Plaintiffs Liao and Wu, who are models for traditional Chinese short videos, accused the operator of a 'face-swapping' app of using their videos to create face-swap templates without authorization, and offering them for paid use on the app, thus infringing upon their portrait rights and personal information rights.

Recently, the Beijing Internet Court held online hearings for four copyright infringement cases filed by illustrators against the developers and operators of AI art software. The plaintiffs in these cases are all renowned illustrators who discovered that their original works, published on a content-sharing platform, were extensively mimicked by the AI art software and used as training material to generate new artworks. These AI-generated artworks not only closely resemble the style of the plaintiffs' works but are also used heavily for commercial purposes, severely harming the interests of the plaintiffs.

Three authors have sued Nvidia for using their copyrighted books without permission to train the NeMo AI platform. The lawsuit claims that the authors' works became part of a dataset consisting of approximately 196,640 books. The authors assert that their works were removed after training in NeMo. Nvidia has not issued a formal response to the case, which could set a significant precedent for copyright in the AI field.

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The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet accuse OpenAI and Microsoft of deliberately removing important copyright information from news articles. The plaintiffs claim that ChatGPT copied copyrighted news works during its training, omitting authors, titles, and copyright information. OpenAI and Microsoft are accused of willfully knowing that ChatGPT could infringe copyright, potentially leading to user dissatisfaction and decreased revenue.

The Guangzhou Internet Court ruled on the world's first case of a generative AI service infringing another's copyright. In the early stages of the generative AI industry development, it is necessary to balance rights protection and industry growth. Shanghai Xinchuanghua Company discovered that Guangzhou Nianguang Company's website could generate images identical or similar to the Ultraman character involved in the case. Companies providing AIGC services that can generate Ultraman series images through AI artistry lost the lawsuit. The court ruled that the company infringed the plaintiff's rights to reproduction and adaptation of the Ultraman character in question, ordering it to cease infringement and compensate the plaintiff 10,000 yuan.

The Guangzhou Internet Court's ruling on the AI services infringing on the copyright of Ultraman has come into effect. The defendant infringed on the plaintiff's Ultraman work copyright during the provision of AI services. The court ordered the defendant to pay 10,000 yuan in economic damages. This is the world's first effective ruling on generative AI service infringement.

Digital watermarking combined with artificial intelligence accelerates the resolution of copyright infringement cases. Courts will obtain more evidence from the integration of digital watermarking and artificial intelligence. The use of more complex watermarks will lead to faster and more accurate solutions. Artificial intelligence can expedite the resolution of 3D printing copyright disputes and optimize processes before online copyright infringement hearings.