#Legal
Posts tagged #Legal – 17 posts.
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Sony and Warner sue Anthropic for up to $150,000 per song
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music sued Anthropic on August 28, 2026, in a federal court in San Francisco. The music publishers accuse the company behind the chatbot Claude of systematic…
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Anthropic: Court declares Pentagon ban unlawful
A US federal judge has declared the Pentagon's classification of Anthropic as a security risk to national security unlawful. Judge Rita Lin ruled in a 59-page decision that the Department of Defense…
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Anthropic: Only complete rephrasing removes Claude watermark
Anthropic revealed technical details of Claude's text watermark to TechCrunch for the first time on August 15 – the marking has been embedded in every response since August 11. Only rephrasing every…
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Anthropic equips Claude responses with invisible watermark
Anthropic is now equipping responses from its AI assistant Claude with an invisible digital watermark. Generated image files also receive signed provenance metadata under the C2PA standard. The step…
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Suno announces watermarking for songs after lawsuits
The AI music service Suno announces four guiding principles and several concrete measures against copyright infringements: watermarks for generated songs, a limit on mass downloads on streaming…
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Perplexity wins appeal against Amazon ban for Comet
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the USA lifted a temporary injunction against Perplexity's AI browser Comet on August 4, 2026. Amazon had accused the company of unlawfully accessing its servers…
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EU AI Regulation: Labeling Requirement for AI Content Starts
As of today, August 2, two independently enacted but deliberately simultaneous labeling obligations for AI content take effect in the EU and California. In the EU, violations of Article 50 of the AI…
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GEMA wins Munich ruling: licensing duty for Suno
The Munich District Court I fully upheld the collecting society GEMA on Friday, July 31, 2026, in the legal dispute against music AI provider Suno. The 42nd Civil Chamber ruled that both training and…
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Google: Media supervision classifies AI search as content provider
The Commission for Licensing and Supervision of the State Media Authorities (ZAK) issued decisions against Google and Perplexity for the first time on July 14, 2026, classifying their AI search…
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Hachette and Elsevier sue Google over Gemini training
The US publishers Hachette, Elsevier, and Cengage, as well as bestselling author Scott Turow, filed a class action lawsuit against Google on July 13, 2026, in a federal court in New York. The company…
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26 Meta employees sue over AI-assisted layoffs
26 currently employed women and men at Meta have filed a lawsuit against their employer in a federal court in Oakland, California. They accuse the company of using an internal AI system to…
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Illinois requires AI companies to conduct independent safety audits
Illinois has enacted a law on July 6, 2026, making it the first U.S. state to require large developers of AI systems to undergo independent safety audits. The Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures…
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Apple sues OpenAI for stolen trade secrets
Apple sued OpenAI on July 10, 2026, in a federal court in California, accusing the ChatGPT manufacturer of systematic theft of hardware trade secrets. Named in the lawsuit are OpenAI's hardware chief…
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Google: Court holds company liable for AI errors
Two German courts have recently decided that companies must take responsibility for the errors of their AI systems. The Munich District Court ordered Google to stop its AI summary falsely accusing a…
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GEMA Wins Music Lawsuit Against Suno in Munich Court
In July 2026, two court decisions are due that could prove groundbreaking for how AI music generators are allowed to handle copyrighted material. In Munich, the regional court is set to rule on the…
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NYT publisher group calls for court sanctions against OpenAI
On July 9, 2026, a group of U.S. media companies led by the New York Times filed a motion for sanctions against OpenAI in a federal court in Manhattan. Among the plaintiffs is the New York Daily…
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Fable 5: The End of Free Model Access
On June 9, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5. On June 12 — three days later — the U.S. government shut down the model globally. On June 30, it lifted the ban. On July 7, the next shift arrives…
