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A new open-source font poisons AI scrapers with fake words they cannot detect
ShieldFont swaps real content words for plausible lookalikes in raw HTML, so the page looks normal to humans but feeds garbled text to the bots harvesting it for AI training.
Artists Battle AI Companies Over Use of Creative Works
Authors, musicians, and illustrators are taking tech giants to court over AI training data they never agreed to provide.
Google Keeps Fighting AI Web Scrapers After Court Loss. Here's Why It Matters.
Google sued SerpApi for scraping and reselling its search results. A judge handed Google a setback last week, and Google says it's pressing on anyway, with Reddit quietly along for the ride.
ChatGPT now refuses to copy a living author's writing style
OpenAI's chatbot has quietly started blocking requests to mimic named authors, offering a blended alternative instead. Here is what changed and why it matters.
Artist sues AI meme generator for turning his viral comic into an ad machine
Elmer Saflor drew the 'Running Away Balloon' comic in 2017. Now he says a company is selling paid subscriptions to a tool that copies it without permission.
Half of All Songs Uploaded to Deezer Are Now Made by AI
The music streaming service says AI-generated tracks hit 90,000 uploads a day in June 2026. Now it's starting to delete the ones nobody listens to.
A federal judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors and publishers
The payout works out to $3,000 per book across roughly 500,000 works. But the ruling that made AI training on copyrighted text legal still stands, and many authors are not celebrating.
Sony Sues Udio Over More Than 30,000 Songs in Major AI Music Copyright Case
After a judge blocked Sony from expanding its original lawsuit, the record label has filed a fresh case targeting a vast catalogue of tracks the AI music tool allegedly copied without permission.
Australia's PM outlined an AI vision. Creatives cheered, but a big question went unanswered
Anthony Albanese promised new laws to protect Australian artists and writers from AI. Critics say the speech was long on mood and short on detail, and one issue was missing entirely.
Suno Hacked: Breach Exposes How AI Music Tool May Have Scraped Millions of Songs
A hacker broke into Suno's systems in November 2025, accessed customer data, and found source code that reportedly shows the AI music generator pulled audio from YouTube, Deezer, and podcast feeds without permission.
Australia's Prime Minister vows to protect artists from AI copyright theft and clamps down on data centres
Anthony Albanese has pledged that writers and musicians will keep control of their work and get paid when AI companies use it. New rules will also govern where giant data centres can be built and how much power they consume.
Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training, calling it one of history's biggest copyright violations
Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier claim Google used millions of copyrighted books without permission to build its Gemini AI. A federal lawsuit filed in New York could reshape how AI companies gather training data.
Australian Labor MP warns colleagues: let AI companies write their own rules and you will fail
Ed Husic is pushing his own party to get tougher on big tech, as the country's creative workers union demands that AI firms stop using artists' work without permission.
Australia's Government Faces a Deadline on AI: Jobs, Copyright and a Prime Minister's Speech
A landmark address this Wednesday could shape how Australia regulates AI. Workers, artists and investors are all watching.
Albanese to call AI a turning point as big as renewable energy, but artists get no copyright answers
Australia's prime minister will address AI policy in a Sydney speech this week, comparing the technology's rise to the renewable energy shift. Creative industries hoping for copyright protection news will have to keep waiting.