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Short original briefs on AI in culture, each linking out to the original reporting rather than reproducing it.
Legal & Policy30 Sep 2026
A US appeals court upheld Thomson Reuters' win over Ross on AI training. Music groups backed it as a precedent, though it doesn't settle the Suno and Udio fair use fights.
Legal & Policy30 Sep 2026
Vietnam's Cinema Department says AI micro-dramas count as films, is seeking takedowns of unrated titles and apps, and backs AI use by filmmakers who follow the rules.
Legal & Policy30 Sep 2026
South Korea's media commission wants AI content labelled, platforms to police it and vouchers for AI tools, though budgets and a law are still to come.
Legal & Policy30 Sep 2026
A Tokyo court says voices can carry publicity rights, but Kenjiro Tsuda's takedown bid against TikTok fails because the AI-voiced clips were already gone.
Legal & Policy30 Sep 2026
Federal prosecutors reject Smith's plea for probation, arguing his AI-song and bot-stream scheme harmed real songwriters and needs a real sentence.
Legal & Policy29 Sep 2026
A Shanghai appeals court ruled that a company's AI clone of a dubbing actor's voice infringed her rights, and made the firm prove where its training data came from.
Legal & Policy29 Sep 2026
The actor's team says an unnamed Los Angeles AI firm used her name, images and videos without consent; the company and any court filing are not identified.
Legal & Policy29 Sep 2026
Brussels is asking whether copyright rules need reinforcing for AI training, live-event piracy and music performers' pay, with replies due by 3 November.
Legal & Policy28 Sep 2026
A León announcer says an agency cloned his voice for a Guanajuato tourism ad; the spots were pulled, testing Mexico's new consent rule for voices.
Legal & Policy28 Sep 2026
The union warns the EU's GDPR overhaul could let AI train on actors' voices and movements without consent, and the culture minister backs it.
Legal & Policy28 Sep 2026
The actor has filed complaints over explicit deepfake videos and online abuse; police are working to trace those responsible, and none have been publicly named.
Legal & Policy28 Sep 2026
The K-pop agency says AI-manipulated images of Yoona led to criminal complaints, and that sharing such fakes can itself be a crime in Korea.
Legal & Policy28 Sep 2026
The court will set the scope of personality rights, including protection from AI-made likenesses, through three test suits before ruling on dozens of others.
Legal & Policy28 Sep 2026
A 25 September dispatch tells platforms to pull films from unqualified distributors and enforce age ratings, as AI-made micro-dramas multiply online.
Legal & Policy27 Sep 2026
A Tokyo court rules September 30 on whether TikTok had to remove videos voiced by an alleged AI clone of Tsuda, in what may be Japan's first test of a performer's right to their voice.
Legal & Policy26 Sep 2026
SB 1050 makes California ads say when an AI-generated performer or narrator is used, with exceptions for translation and for films and games.
Legal & Policy25 Sep 2026
Michael Smith's lawyers say his bot-streamed AI songs harmed no single artist; guidelines suggest 46 to 57 months, in what will be the first US sentence of its kind.
Legal & Policy24 Sep 2026
UMG's complaint says DistroKid delivered 12 million tracks to one streamer in six months, including bulk Suno output sold as human music, and seeks up to $150m over 1,000 works.
Legal & Policy24 Sep 2026
A Chinese court ruled an AI-assisted micro-drama is a protected work and, for the first time, weighed token and AI-tool costs when setting damages.
Legal & Policy23 Sep 2026
After the Kantara actor complained of morphed AI images and videos, Bengaluru's cyber police traced three suspects, seized their phones and took them to court.
Legal & Policy23 Sep 2026
With 430,000 micro-dramas released this year and over 90% made with AI, China's NRTA promises funding for human-acted work and tighter AI labelling.
Legal & Policy22 Sep 2026
Suno's reply to the second Universal and Sony suit concedes v6 was trained partly on tracks its users generated, the very point the labels say taints the new model.
Legal & Policy21 Sep 2026
Since May, Mexican law requires written, paid consent to clone a performer's voice and human actors for dubbing into national languages; ViX's AI-dubbed telenovelas test the limits.
Legal & Policy18 Sep 2026
Nine days after v6 launched, the two majors sued again, arguing a model trained on outputs of infringing models inherits the infringement.
