Plagiarism Today

AI companies flooded the internet with "good enough" content that was easy to create.

Publishers ask judge to ignore DOJ's support for AI, Jermaine Dupri and Jacquees face copyright lawsuit and WWE gets Bloodline lawsuit dismissed.

An up-and-coming French author has been removed from the long list for a presidential literary prize due to AI allegations.

Lidl banned from selling imitation Birkenstock sandals, Zee Entertainment wants to hold JioStar in contempt and California passes AI disclosure law.

Disco legend Amanda Lear has accused Miley Cyrus of plagiarizing a song of her most recent album.

Salt-N-Pepa appeal copyright termination ruling, Copyright Office head has lawsuit paused and high school changes logo after 4-year process.

Fourteen and a half years after the SOPA/PIPA protests, site blocking bills are once again being introduced in the United States.

Court allows Shein to appeal Temu decision, Indonesia drafts copyright reform and Indian filmmakers obtain sync license for music in trailer.

With AI-generated music, scammers are able to publish tracks on Spotify under the name of real, human artists.

Microsoft exec calls AI scraping the "largest theft of labor in human history," Belgian judge upholds site blocking order and Sony/Universal sue Suno again.

Game developers have long had to battle hastily-made clones of their games.

Ninth Circuit rules against DMCA claims against GitHub, Australia proposes new copyright regulations for AI and Denuvo sues alleged hacker.

In South Korea, the Haeundae District in Busan has won court decision, allowing it to reclaim roughly $130,000 it paid to a plagiarizing contractor.

Publishers and OpenAI make final pleas before discovery ends, Saudi Arabia introduces new copyright law and Meta argues uploading is inevitable with BitTorrent.

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has handed down another final determination, this one involving a fight over Beanie Baby pricing guides.

Association of Corporate Counsel sues legal network, Sayani Gupta wins copyright dispute and Apple sued by shareholder over AI training.

A24 has acquired the distribution rights to the film V/H/S: SCP, which is based on a crowd-sourced fictional wiki.

Dancing with a Stranger lawsuit headed toward a jury trial, Static-X sues filmmaker Matt Zane and Wixen's lawsuit against Meta partially dismissed.

Stella Lefty recently gave a retroactive songwriting credit on one of her songs.

Authors battle with publishers over Anthropic settlement money, Vietnam pirate site damages estimated at over $83 million and copyright scams hit Instagram.

OpenAI recently announced that its model has solved one of the most difficult mathematical problems in the world.

Suno replaces its models with one trained on licensed content, White House removes Tetris-like game and a DMCA war erupts between two MA news groups.

Stella Lefty's meteoric rise to fame has come at a cost.

Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI, Anchorage police back down from copyright takedown and The Tetris Company warns the Trump Administration.

Yet another high-ranking Romanian official has been accused of plagiarism.

Judge dismisses Dembow case after reconsidering, Australia bans AI-generated music from official charts and RCN seeks dismissal of music copyright lawsuit.

The term "Doom Clones" defined first-person shooters in the mid-1990s.

Trump Administration supports OpenAI in copyright fight, India registers AI-generated work, but not as the author and more.