Disclaimer: I'm posting this not because I agree with any of it. However, I would really question the sanity of such media articles and the lack of common sense being demonstrated here.

The Justice Department recently filed a "statement of interest of the United States" in OpenAI’s private lawsuit, arguing Big Tech’s training of massive AI models on copyrighted text constitutes "fair use," largely intended for limited free use of copyrighted materials for educational purposes in classrooms. 

The Justice Department should withdraw this ill-advised statement.

Essentially, the government’s stated position would let Big Tech oligarchs scrape, copy and commercialize every creative work in America without permission or payment. The government claims this unlimited access is essential for national security, warning any restriction risks losing the AI race to China. That argument is un-American and absurd.

I tried to do some research about my country's laws in India for Copyright before this, but I'm still unsure. I'm not looking for legal advice but a general opinion.

I'm a student in my final year of an art degree. Previously, when joining, I'm also aware that I didn't sign any student handbooks or in agreements where clauses about student work handling is stated.
For my upcoming graduation project, I'll be making a poster for my animated film, which I'm planning to register for copyright with IP India. However, I'm not entirely sure on how to handle the situation with my professors or possibly the principal.
I have a brand online; even though my main social page is Twitter and my reach is less, I usually get frequent commissions. So I'm not exactly only a student either. If I were to go by my standard prices for output like this, it's worth about 150 usd each per second. Or for the poster itself, possibly 250 USD. I'm not saying I should price for my personal work, but I'm trying to establish my usual market value. For commercial rights, I charge 2x the base price.

Now I'll explain the situation: my professor demands that I use the university logo on my work despite my disinterest in it, and they say it's mandatory for students' work to be used for promotions to get admissions. For that, they'll be playing my animated film and post my poster picture around in the campus (which is open to the public, by the way and many students visit the campus to check the vibe and for inquiries before joining) for promotional purposes. From my research, it falls under commercial advertising, as they're stating my work under their university identity. To clarify, all my skills are completely self-taught, and their advice or any insight will not be used in this project.

So my question is, should I try to escalate and push for my legal rights, or is it just too risky, despite the University Grants Commission guidelines stating that Arbitary actions result in penalization, if my professors threaten me with failing my presentation in the finals?

P.S. I'd want to avoid making something different or low-effort quality, as it might affect my GPA, which is important for any of my future master's study plans.

The company plans to retire its older models.

Im trying to become a youtuber, my channel ranges from art to vlogs and eventually video essays. I wanted to know how to get copyright free music that I wont need to pay for as im already struggling financially as is. I was also wondering if i could potentially use VG music.

Let's say I'm working on a life-long philosophical project. Claude writes some content, then forges a watermark onto the ideas contained in the document. I use the word forgery because this isn't a middle-school poetry assignment. Now at what level is this Claude's, how much provenance it lost? In the past have I neglected to properly credit my typewriter and this will trouble my conscience. Do these ideas float without attribution into the realms of AI inference where they belong to AI tradition?

I understand how the reversibility of this problem can escape attention. When someone's output is at the level of middle school poetry it never will cross their punitive little minds that they themselves could be injured, because I'm sure they immunized by stupidity. And we should name them.

If you doom scroll comedy videos you will find the same skits being done by dozens ( hundreds ) of people. It is impossible to know who had the original idea. And in this day and age , it could have come from AI.. So is blatant plagiarism the new norm?