#Copyright

An arXiv paper reports that fine-tuning GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek-V3.1 on summary-to-text expansion tasks increases verbatim reproduction of copyrighted books.

Bartz v. Anthropic, a class action lawsuit over learning through unauthorized downloading from LibGen, etc., reaches settlement. FSF, as the copyright holder of the GNU FDL works, received the settlement notice and announced its position demanding disclosure of the training data model for LLM learning.

Two long-standing reference publishers sued OpenAI, alleging that roughly 100,000 articles were used without permission to train LLMs.

Right after Seedance 2.0 launched, a torrent of Hollywood IP infringement flooded social networks. Disney, Netflix, and Paramount sent cease-and-desist letters; the API release was postponed indefinitely, and face-cloning and person reference features were disabled.

A look at a ComfyUI copyright protection tool that sounds blockchain-like but is really local-only under the hood.