







The Japan Copyright Office, part of the Japanese Government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, has published ‘General Understanding on AI and Copyright in Japan: Overview’ (May 2024).
Inside the Copyright Office’s Report, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability | Copyright
On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released Part 2 of its Report, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence. The Report addresses the legal and policy issues related to artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright, as outlined in the Office’s August 2023 notice of inquiry (NOI). Part 2: Copyrightability addresses the copyrightability of outputs created using generative …

Machine as Author: Perspectives on AI-Created Works and Copyright
Generative AI's role in creating content challenges traditional copyright frameworks, requiring a redefinition of authorship and protection criteria across different jurisdictions, as seen in the varying approaches of the U.S., EU, and China.

Copyright of AI-generated works: Approaches in the EU and beyond | Think Tank | European Parliament
Copyright of AI-generated works: Approaches in the EU and beyond
AI Art Copyright Laws 2025: Who Really Owns Creative Rights? - ClearAINews
Discover the latest AI art copyright laws 2025 and learn who really owns creative rights, as the rules change rapidly, affecting artists now.

‘AI Generated Work’, ‘Computer Generated’ and ‘Work’ in Copyright: Whether AI Generated Work is a ‘Work’?
Right on the heels of Vedika’s earlier post, we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Dr. Anson C J taking an in-depth look into the question of whether an AI-generated work is a …

Are AI Outputs Covered by Copyright Laws?
Understanding why your AI prompts are not enough to qualify for copyright protection.
Who owns an AI generated song? What we can learn from the phonograph and the evolution of copyright laws
History suggests copyright adapts to technology. AI may be no exception.

Pluralistic: Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem (09 Feb 2023)
The media spectacle of generative AI (in which AI companies' breathless claims of their software's sorcerous powers are endlessly repeated) has understandably alarmed many creative workers, a group that's already traumatized by extractive abuse by media and tech companies.
The Archive as a Dataset
Information derived from primary and secondary sources contains bias, and as a corollary, the systems that emerge from that information replicate it. The digital world and AI are no exception. We will convene a conversation between Anisa Abeytia (C& Advisory Board member, AI governance specialist at the UNHCR and the Center for AI and Digital Policy) and Nan Collymore (C& Head of Business Development, writer and curator), on the significance of building digital and analog datasets that make cultural knowledge more accessible, representative, and accountable.

The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World – Question Copyright
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Fake scientific papers made with AI used names of 3 Japan researchers
TOKYO -- A disreputable scientific journal used generative AI to create bogus papers, using the names of three Japanese researchers without permission

Music Publishers Sue AI Company Anthropic for Copyright Infringement
Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord, and ABKCO claim that the large language model Claud was trained on copyrighted works

Japanese publishers are fighting imposter news sites with a cryptographic signature
The Yomiuri Shimbun, The Asahi Shimbun, and NHK have all signed onto the Originator Profile standard.


Hayao Miyazaki, Who Said AI Is ‘Insult to Life Itself,” Reduced to AI-Generated Meme by OpenAI

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

Bing Is Generating Images of SpongeBob Doing 9/11

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus

OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content