Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era

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For many software companies, as well as authors, artists and musicians, the risk is not just direct copying. It’s that the market for their work could be flooded with A.I.-generated substitutes that cost almost nothing to produce. “What happened with the Claude Code leak is essentially a preview of what’s coming for every creative industry,” said Russ Pearlman, a lawyer specializing in A.I. and technology. Existing copyright rules, he said, were built on the assumption that copying takes time and that there’s a meaningful window to take action to protect a work.

Source: Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era

Tuned Global launches streaming manipulation detection tool

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Tuned Global, the technology platform used by businesses to power licensed music and audio services, has launched what it calls a Service Manipulation Detection (SMD) system, designed to help streaming platforms and rightsholders identify and act on that activity. The offering, announced on Tuesday (April 21), monitors for manipulation tactics including bot usage, click farms, scripted listening and coordinated repeat plays – all of which can distort play counts, chart positions and royalty allocations.

Source: Tuned Global launches streaming manipulation detection tool 

YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities

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The technology works similarly to YouTube’s existing Content ID system, which detects copyright-protected material in users’ uploaded videos, allowing rights owners to request removal or share in the video’s revenue. Likeness detection does the same, but for simulated faces. The feature is meant to help protect creators and other public figures from having their identities used without their permission — a common problem for celebrities who find their likenesses have been used in scam advertisements.

Source: YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities

Anthropic Argues for Fair Use in UMG’s AI Lawsuit: ‘Training on Lyrics Is Transformative’

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UMG and the other music companies urged a federal judge last month to find that Anthropic’s use of its intellectual property was not “fair use” — a legal tenet that excludes “transformative” uses of a work from copyright protection. Now the AI giant is hitting back, saying in a Monday (April 20) brief of its own that the publishers cannot “meaningfully dispute that training on lyrics (and other copyrighted text) is transformative.”

Source: Anthropic Argues for Fair Use in UMG’s AI Lawsuit: ‘Training on Lyrics Is Transformative’

EU study examines music discoverability on streaming services

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While the research found that “exposure is still concentrated around superstar artists” there were some bright spots. “Younger listeners emerge as key drivers of diversity, showing greater openness to new genres and emerging artists”. The report identifies some big challenges too. A mountain of new releases – “worsened by streaming fraud and the rapid proliferation of AI-generated music”.

Source: EU study examines music discoverability on streaming services

UK publishers urge CMA to curb Google

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News publishers have disputed a claim from Google that using their content to “fine-tune” its AI models contains “no realistic prospect of harm” to them. Google told the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority that there is “no realistic prospect of harm to publishers in respect of training/fine-tuning of AI models for search and search generative AI features. “Fine-tuning helps the model learn how to process information rather than what current information to display.”

Source: UK publishers urge CMA to curb Google

UMG, Concord Slap Quince with Major Lawsuit Over TikTok, Instagram Infringement Allegations

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Universal Music Group (UMG) and Concord Music Group, along with Capitol Records and six Universal Music Publishing entities, have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against popular direct-to-consumer fashion startup Quince. According to the filing, Quince has used over 130 copyrighted works—including 67 sound recordings and 71 musical compositions—that were allegedly used without authorization in TikTok and Instagram posts.

Source: UMG, Concord Slap Quince with Major Lawsuit Over TikTok, Instagram Infringement Allegations

OpenAI CEO Says AI in Hollywood Will Get People to ‘Care More About Human Creators’

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes AI is a good thing for Hollywood and will not hurt the industry as much as critics of the technology may be worried about. “I think people really care about other people,” Altman [said] at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony. “I think people really care about the human beings behind the stories and the art and the creative work that matters so much.”

Source: OpenAI CEO Says AI in Hollywood Will Get People to ‘Care More About Human Creators’

Artificial Intelligence in the Art Market

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A recent Artsy survey of more than 300 gallery professionals underscores a widening gap between operational adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and cultural acceptance of AI as an artistic medium. Though galleries are integrating AI into back-office functions, artists, collectors and market professionals remain cautious of AI in the art industry. Works that blend human and machine inputs continue to complicate authorship, ownership and valuation analyses.

Source: Artificial Intelligence in the Art Market

Why are respected film-makers suddenly embracing AI?

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Soderbergh mentioned in an interview with Filmmaker Magazine that he used what sounds like generative AI to produce “thematically surreal images that occupy a dream space rather than a literal space” for his upcoming documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono. “I don’t think it’s the solution to everything, and I don’t think it’s the death of everything. We’re in the very early stages. Five years from now, we all may be going, ‘That was a fun phase.’ We may end up not using it as much as we thought we were going to.”

Source: Why are respected film-makers suddenly embracing AI?

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