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Meta Platforms Inc. argues that using copyrighted books to train AI models constitutes fair use under copyright law because the training transforms copies into new technology.

Anthropic urged US District Judge Eumi Lee on October 21, 2026, to rule that training its chatbot Claude on song lyrics is protected under the fair use doctrine.

In the Kadrey v. Meta Platforms class action, Judge Vince Chhabria ruled Meta's AI training on authors' books was fair use because plaintiffs failed to prove market harm from market dilution.

BitTorrent seeding automatically uploads file fragments to external network users during downloads, creating a distinct act of unauthorized distribution beyond basic downloading.

DeepSeek published the open-weight model files for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on Hugging Face and ModelScope on October 17, 2026

The FLUX Kommunity License for FLUX 3 Action determines eligibility using gross annualized revenue combined across affiliates rather than individual project budgets

Muse Spark Open is available free to download under a commercial license requiring the label 'Built with Muse Spark Open,' while API providers earning over $20 million annually require a separate agreement

Nvidia released base, post-trained, and compressed weights for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL under the OpenMDW license, alongside training recipes and 25 trillion tokens of pretraining data

Nvidia charges $4,500 per GPU annually for the Nvidia AI Enterprise software license required to run production deployments of Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

Character.AI attorney Erin Fay stated that Walt Disney's $20 million bid explicitly excludes Character.AI's operating chatbot app, brand, user data, and conversation logs

Walt Disney agreed to serve as a stalking-horse bidder to license Character.AI technology and intellectual property for $20 million while hiring most of Character.AI's staff.

Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to Character.AI in September 2025 over unauthorized use of copyrighted characters like Elsa and Darth Vader

Google agreed to a $2.7 billion licensing and talent deal with Character.AI in August 2024 to use Character.AI's technology and rehire Character.AI's founders

Disney Worldwide Services agreed to serve as the $20 million opening stalking-horse bidder in Character.AI's Chapter 11 bankruptcy sale for a non-exclusive perpetual license to Character.AI technology

Apple reached an agreement to extend employment offers to select employees of Huxe AI and acquire a non-exclusive license to Huxe's intellectual property

The lawsuit filed by USA Today Co., Inc. on October 8, 2026 claims OpenAI's paid agreements with other news organizations prove that OpenAI knows news content requires a licensing agreement

SignSplit PBC built infrastructure for signed data that enables human data contributions to be verified, protected, licensed, and digitally signed to establish clear consent, provenance, and usage terms

SignSplit PBC compensates individual contributors who protect and license their digital assets, including datasets, likenesses, and voices, based on how often their data is used.

The AGCM stated that the license users must grant under Suno's terms of service to use their content is defined too broadly and is insufficiently detailed

The AGCM raised concerns that Suno's terms require users to waive moral rights, which allow authors to control how work is credited and treated, conflicting with Articles 20 and following of Italian Law 633/1941.