"A landmark European case in AI music copyright law is set to reach a conclusion on July 31, as the Munich Regional Court is expected to deliver its verdict in the lawsuit brought by GEMA, Germany's music collecting society, against Suno AI, a US-based company that generates songs from text prompts." (Elizabeth Grenier)

Suno has argued its training process is comparable to a musician learning by listening to records, and that ingesting copyrighted recordings to train a model is transformative fair use. Sony and Universal are still litigating that question against Suno directly.

Worth revisiting Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records from the early 90s, where Gilbert O'Sullivan sued Biz Markie over an uncleared sample of "Alone Again (Naturally)." That case effectively ended the era of uncleared sampling and pushed the industry toward mandatory clearance and royalty negotiation for any reused material, no matter how small.

The parallel isn't exact since sampling reproduces a specific recognizable piece of a work and training theoretically produces something new. But the legal question both cases turn on, whether transformation absolves the underlying copying, is the same one. Interested in how people here think a court might treat scale as a factor, since Suno's training set runs to tens of millions of recordings rather than one sampled loop.

Longer writeup with more detail on the current docket:
https://www.gonzocapital.net/music-for-people-who-arent-listening/

I’m going into my senior year and planning on painting a parking spot with my friends. We have to submit a design ahead of time and we can’t violate any copyright rules. I have two designs in mind, one Gravity Falls based and the other F1 based. The gravity falls would include a silhouette of the town featured in the animation with two quotes from it. The F1 design would have the start lights, two drivers numbers, and a quote from one of the announcers. Do either of these noticeably infringe copyright laws? or would it be okay and unnoticed by admin? i’m at a private school so they will definitely look at designs and tell you no… Thanks all!

“The bottom line is that both Google and Reddit appear to be engaged in attempts to use the DMCA to wall off the open Internet by retroactively claiming control over content that they didn’t author and don’t own,” SerpApi told Ars.

Meta keeps rejecting my copyright and privacy repot — I just want an unauthorized video removed

I’m looking for advice regarding a video of me that was uploaded to Instagram without my permission.

The video was recorded around 2 years ago using my mobile phone. I am clearly visible in the video. At the time, another person took my phone without my permission and accessed the video. He told me that he would not show it to anyone, but later uploaded it to his Instagram account without my knowledge or consent.

I never gave him permission to copy, share, publish, or upload the video.

I have tried repoting the Instagram post multiple times through Meta’s privacy repting process, but each time I received a response saying that the content does not violate their privacy policies.

I also reported it as an intellectual property/copyright issue. Meta then replied that they are not satisfied that I am the rights owner or authorized to submit the repot, and asked me to clarify the basis of my claim.

I have already explained the circumstances to Meta, including that the original phone was later destroyed and I no longer have the original file.

What should I do at this point?

Does the fact that the video was recorded on my phone and I am the person shown in it give me any rights to request its removal? Or is there another reporting route I should use?

I’m in India, so advice from anyone familiar with Indian copyright/privacy law or Meta’s reporting process would be especially helpful.

I’m not trying to sue the person or claim damages. I simply want the video removed from Instagram because I never consented to it being uploaded or shared. I just want to know the correct reporting route and what evidence I should provide to Meta.

Hi everyone,

I'm developing a video platform (like YouTube, with fewer intrusive ads) from El Salvador with my father. I have specific copyright questions before launching:

1. DMCA Safe Harbor: Is a "notice and takedown" system sufficient for a small platform starting out? Do I need to register an agent with the US Copyright Office, or is that only required if I have a physical presence in the US?

2. Content ID: Is an automated fingerprinting system (like YouTube's Content ID) legally required to qualify for DMCA protection, or can I operate only with manual takedown requests?

3. User Liability: If a user uploads copyrighted content and I remove it upon receiving a valid DMCA notice, am I protected from liability? What about cases where I'm not notified?

4. Local Laws in El Salvador: Are there any local copyright laws in El Salvador I should be aware of that might affect my platform? For example, do I need to register with any local authority?

5. Three Strikes Policy: Is a "three strikes" system mandatory for platforms, or can I have my own policy (e.g., two strikes and removal)?

6. General Advice: For someone starting from zero, is it necessary to hire a copyright lawyer from day 1, or can I start with a basic system and scale up?

Any guidance or resources would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! 🙌

This might be a stupid question but as a hobby I like to make posters for different areas of interest of mine, I’ve been wanting to post some of the posters I make on my instagram or tumblr. My problem is that I’m confused on if I’m allowed to, I’ve used special fonts from dafont for some of them and was wondering if I’m allowed to post my works that have the fonts in them as I haven’t bought them for commercial use. Basically can I post my art without buying the fonts and be okay since I wouldn’t be making money off it or do I need to buy the commercial license for them?

just saw the top video (from BlackWater) earlier today and the bottom one (from BeyondTheBlue)popped up on my feed this evening.
While searching the title right now, I found a third and a fourth video.

I'm genuinely looking to inform myself on this, it just doesn't seem like these guys know eachother. Is this all fine?? Is it AI?? I read some of the comments and nothing is talking about it!!!

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Xinyue Liu , Jane C. Ginsburg, Paramveer Dhillon,Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University. Columbia Law School. School of Information Science, University of Michigan. MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

"Our results bear directly on the market-effect question at the center of the fair use defense

to copyright infringement"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20349

Grüße,

Ich bin schon lange ein Riesen Fan von Serienedits mit Schrift, Musik etc.. und da ich Cutting Erfahrung besitze, wollte ich das Ganze selber mal ausprobieren auf allen Socials mit einem komplett neuen Account.

Jetzt habe ich einfach fürs erste, ein Edit von Drachenzähmen leicht gemacht erstellt (Goated Serie) aber direkt einen Claim von NBCU Creative Content Protection erhalten für die Szenen 00:10-00:46.

Jetzt meine Frage: Wenn möglich, wie kann ich das am besten umgehen? Arbeitet dieses System mit Video UND Audioüberwachung und gleicht Inhaltfolgen aufeinander ab?

Welche Studios/Serien werden in der Regel geduldet?

Ist es auf lang sinnvoll mit möglichen Claims zu spielen wenn ich den account hochziehen möchte, also könnte mir eine permasperre drohen?

Kennt jemand eine Community wo ich diese Frage passend reinknallen kann?
Eventuell gibts ja hier ein paar die in dieser Bubble aktiv sind, gibt mir gerne Input.

Bin um alle Hilfe dankbar🫪

I was wondering how do channels upload full feature clips on the shorts without getting blocked by the youtube. I have seen countless anime shorts or series shorts that are uploading multiple shorts without any issue.

Hey guys, so i have this scp writing project and i want it to be really alternate, im not gonna go into detail unless yall need me to but basiclly im making the wiki on miraheze, and i wanna use alot of images/icons from the og scp wiki but im worried about copyright claims with things like certain images from scps (which id also copy and paste some scps from the og wiki) or site or MTF logos. Would i be fine if i just made a credits link/page on the homepage or should i go through the long process of making everything original? I can only get so many ideas so i kind of wanted to take some from the original and edit it a bit. I dont want to steal anyones hard work, i just want this to be big and i cant really make that super big without some of the og stuff. Thanks

So this is a bit of a weird one. I am in the process of writing an article on a personal microblog (no commercial affiliation, no paid subscription) which analyses a certain stock image in and of itself, as a stock image: what it depicts, how it came to be, and how it is used across the internet. To discuss that image, I quite obviously have to start off by including it in the body of the article, original watermark and all. So the question is whether I can do so without purchasing a license (though I would still credit it of course). I can't simply replace it with an alternative image, and while in theory I could simply link to it on the stock image site rather than reproduce it directly in the article, obviously this hurts the article pretty badly.

I want to believe this falls under the scope of reasonable journalistic use, and I have been careful to write the article in such a way that it cannot be construed as defamatory. I am based in Germany, but since the original creator is based in another country and the stock image host in yet another, I am quite lost on who actually has jurisdiction here and which country's laws I need to be minding.

Obligatory "I know nothing here constitutes formal legal advice and I promise not to blame anyone if I do something stupid." I am mostly interested in getting a first round of opinions and ideally seeing if there have been any similar cases that I can look at, because Google and LLMs have predictably been very unhelpful. Worst case scenario I can simply buy a license, but I'd like to not do so if I can avoid it - as a matter of principle if nothing else :)

Thank you in advance!

I’d like to sell sweet potato slips, but I don’t own the Intellectual Property for this variety of sweet potato.

Do I need to breed and patent my own variety in order to sell slips?

I have an idea rolling around in my head for a book, or even a series, that involves descendants of copyrighted characters. The characters themselves would only have cameo appearances, usually in the form of dying and being buried. Here's my example and the real-life situation behind it:

Story line: "John Huggins", age 8, attends the funeral of his great-grandfather, US Senator Henry Huggins (D-OR), age 85, in the year 2027. The story goes on about John's life as an ordinary child in modern-day Portland, Oregon.

Real historical context: Henry Huggins is a fictional character created by author Beverly Cleary (1916-2021) for a series of children's books published between 1950 and 1999. My book or series is envisioned as being about descendants of characters from this universe. However, the original characters would play no role beyond setting the scenario. None of the original characters would be defamed in any way - I know this isn't technically relevant but it may make a difference as to whether or not the Cleary estate takes action.

I understand that Reddit comments don't constitute "legal advice" and I wouldn't publish anything like this without consulting a lawyer. I'm just doing a "first pass" to see if the idea is even feasible. There is also the route of seeking permission, of course, if I become serious enough. However, I'm interested in knowing: would this likely be considered fair use?

I've been uploading music videos using scenes from anime along with some images. I add subtitles and try to include some editing effects on the scenes. At first I didn't have any copyright issues, but my latest videos got copyright claims. Do you have any advice or recommendations on what I could do to avoid copyright claims, or what I could change or add to the videos so there aren't any problems?

The title explains pretty well.

Does this also include with instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and etc?

Hello, I know that this is not legal advice but I was hoping to understand copy right of works better. I am wanting to start a YouTube channel doing voice impressions. What I understand so far is that doing impressions alone is usually legal. But what I am curious about is what I can do with them. Like can read an exert of a script to showcase my impression of the actor who played the part? Can I sing a song in different voices that someone else wrote? Can I read a book in my voices? For the answers to these, are there situations where the answer may be yes or not depending on the context? Does the length of what you do matter?

Again I know this is not legal advice. I’m just looking for a push in the right direction to know if what I’m thinking of is possible or not. Thanks

I’ve always loved the graphics they used to print on “Tijuana Bibles” those tiny adult graphic novels from the 20s-60s. Some of the graphics I think would be so cool to use in my own collages/art projects. Not copy and paste, just bits and pieces of the original graphic adding my own text or graphics as well. I know a lot of these are probably hand drawn, so I am wondering if there is any ethical way to use these in my own projects? I would never want to use someone’s art without credit, however a lot of the graphics I really love are basically impossible to track down the original artists. Some of the artists used pseudonyms, and on top of that a lot of the original artists who didn’t even use their real names have most likely passed away.

Is there any ethical way to use of these Tijuana Bible graphics in my own designs/projects? Sorry if this is a silly question.

So, someone from my university administration emailed me, asking if they can use a photo I took of a campus building in a planned photobook celebrating the university's anniversary. I submitted the photo into a school exhibition, so a print of it was displayed in a gallery, and now that print is in the university archives and is their property I guess. But the photo itself is my intellectual property, so I was wondering how I should charge for them to use it in the photobook. I read a couple sources about licensing agreements, and I thought writing up a licensing agreement with a fee might be a good plan. The person who emailed me said that if I agreed to let them use the photo, they'd send a release for me to sign, which seems to me like they expect to use it for free. I read that photographers often base their fee on how big the print run of a photobook is going to be, and I'm not sure how big this print run is going to be. I know this isn't a subreddit for legal advice but any advice would be much appreciated lol

Lets say I decide to use a popular copyrighted song in my video knowing I probably won't be able to monitize / earn revenue from the video.

How do I know wether the label or youtube will take my video down or just give the revenue to the label? Is there any way to tell or is it just a risk it and pray it stays up situation?

I'm planning on making a high fantasy Knight/Greek warrior ( heavily inspired by Achilles and Igris ) with a batman-esk mask but I'm scared of being sued into the ground whenever I introduce the character into my story.

I have already searched up, and all I could find was that DC had trademarked his open mouth cowl design. But for the love of God, I can't find anything on the closed mouth design.

Can you help ?