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Valve, the owner of the popular gaming client and storefront Steam, appears to be grappling with the legal implications of generative AI in the gaming industry. According to reports, the company is purportedly preventing games that utilize AI-generated art assets from being sold on its platform.An anonymous developer recently shared their experience of having their game submission to Steam rejected. The developer's post gained significant attention on Twitter, where they disclosed that a substantial portion of the game's…

Music labels sued Twitter for copyright infringement in a class action lawsuit filed on Wednesday. The labels claim the social media company used copyrighted music to increase the amount of time users spend on the platform and failed to remove the content after it received notifications to take the copyrighted content down.Making the Facebook Papers PublicThe National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) filed the lawsuit on behalf of 17 music publishers who represent artists including Taylor Swift, Beyonce, The Weeknd,…

A viral AI-generated song imitating Drake and The Weeknd was pulled from streaming services this week, but did it actually breach copyright as claimed by record label Universal?Created by someone called @ghostwriter, "Heart On My Sleeve" racked up millions of listens before Universal Music Group asked for its removal from Spotify, Apple Music and other platforms. However, Andres Guadamuz, who teaches intellectual property law at Britain's University of Sussex, is not convinced that the song breached copyright. As similar…

Google questioned Australia’s copyright laws in an open letter to the government last month, asking it to relax the law so it doesn’t restrict the use of artificial intelligence. The company asked if the Australian government has considered if its copyright legislation has“the necessary flexibilities” to support AI development. It requested the government include a fair dealing exception that would also allow for Text and Data Mining (TDM).The FTC Just Prescribed a Can of Whoop Ass on Health DataThe response comes as…

The AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd song was taken down from social media platforms including Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, SoundCloud, and others over the course of the last two days. The song calls into question existing copyright laws and whether they apply to songs created in the artist’s voice and without consent.Time to Tackle the Taylor Swift Ticketmaster Turmoil | TechModoThe song, Heart On My Sleeve, was reportedly created by Ghostwriter977 who used AI software to replicate Drake and The Weeknd’s…

A judge ruled against Internet Archive, a free online digital library, on Friday in a lawsuit filed by four top publishers who claimed the company was in violation of copyright laws. The publishers, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House filed the lawsuit against Internet Archive in 2020, claiming the company had illegally scanned and uploaded 127 of their books for readers to download for free, detracting from their sales and the authors’ royalties.U.S. District Court Judge…

Nearly half of human resource leaders polled by consulting firm Gartner said they're in the process of formulating guidance on employees' use of OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.What those policies will look like may end up varying widely. Some Wall Street firms, like Bank of America Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., have banned the chatbot, while hedge fund giant Citadel has embraced it. At the same time, one-third of HR leaders surveyed by Gartner said they aren't planning to issue any policies on…

Photo: Handout (Getty Images)The U.S. Navy was found guilty of piracy and is ordered to pay a software company $154,400 for a lawsuit filed back in 2016. The company, Bitmanagement Software GmbH, filed a complaint against the Navy, accusing the military branch of copyright infringement.GmbH claimed they had issued 38 copies of their 3D virtual reality software, BS Contact Geo, but while they were still in negotiations for additional licenses, the Navy installed the software onto at least 558,466 machines between 2013 and…

Photo: Lionel Bonaventure (Getty Images)YouTube was on the precipice of cutting all of its most profitable ads amid fallout from Elsagate, the most bizarre scandal in the history of the biggest video-sharing site on the internet. It’s a silly name, but it hearkens to a time when thousands of disturbing algorithm-driven videos starring popular children’s characters flooded the sections of the site normally intended for kids. Indicating just how serious the problem was, the move to cut ads would have immediately cost the…

Image: Gizmodo/Shutterstock (Shutterstock)Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the anniversary, we’re looking back at some of the most significant ways our lives have been thrown for a loop by our digital tools.In the revisionist history of the internet, we were all sold down the river by the “techno-optimists,” who assumed that once we “connected every person in the world” we’d enter a kind of post-industrial nirvana, a condition so wondrous that it behooved us all to “move fast,” even if that meant that we’d “break…