The Copyright Office says digital replicas need federal law
Part 1 of the Copyright Office's AI report recommends a federal right against unauthorized digital replicas, leaving other issues to later parts.
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The Copyright Office ties AI training's fairness to its use
The pre-publication Part 3 report says AI training can be fair use for research but not for commercially competing output.
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A registration form now forces an AI authorship disclosure
The Copyright Office's March 2023 guidance requires applicants to disclose and exclude AI-generated material from what they claim.
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Amazon draws its own line between AI-made and AI-assisted
KDP's living content guidelines require disclosing AI-generated text, images and translations but not AI-assisted editing or brainstorming.
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Apple Books separates an AI credit from an author's
Apple's own formatting guide requires an AI Generated by attribution distinct from a human author credit.
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Barnes and Noble Press asks its own AI disclosure question
B&N Press requires authors to declare AI-Created versus AI-Assisted work, using terms that do not match Amazon's or Apple's.
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Kobo says it will not train models on authors' books
Kobo's blog and content policy say it won't feed books into an LLM while barring content generated primarily by automated tools.
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The EU's AI Act now requires labeling synthetic text
From 2 August 2026 the AI Act requires marking some AI-generated content, on top of copyright duties already binding AI model providers.
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Three publishing bodies agree AI cannot be an author
ICMJE, COPE and WAME each state AI tools cannot meet authorship criteria because they cannot take responsibility for a manuscript.
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Two wire services keep photo authenticity off-limits to AI
AP and Reuters both bar generative AI from creating news imagery while allowing it as production infrastructure elsewhere in the newsroom.
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An authors' lawsuit put AI training itself on trial
The Authors Guild's 2023 complaint against OpenAI targeted how books entered a model, not just what a chatbot outputs.
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Authors asked a judge to rule OpenAI's training unlawful
A 2026 summary-judgment motion asks the court to decide fair use as a matter of law, not send it to a jury.
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A judge split AI training from the piracy that fed it
Bartz v. Anthropic found training fair use but ruled downloading pirated books was not, sending only that question to trial.
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A settlement pays authors only if a copyright was registered
Anthropic's piracy settlement pays class members by title, but only for books the Copyright Office shows were registered on time.
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Meta won on fair use because authors could not show harm
Kadrey v. Meta found for the platform not because copying was harmless, but because these plaintiffs did not prove market dilution.
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A machine cannot register a copyright it authored alone
A federal court upheld the Copyright Office's refusal to register a work whose applicant claimed no human involvement at all.
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The Copyright Office split a comic book from its pictures
Zarya of the Dawn kept copyright in its text and layout while the individual Midjourney images lost protection entirely.
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A newspaper's suit tested reproduction, not just training
The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft over chatbots it says both trained on and reproduced its journalism nearly verbatim.
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One judge now oversees a dozen AI copyright lawsuits
A federal panel consolidated twelve author, publisher and news suits against OpenAI into a single New York proceeding.
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A registration gap can erase an author's settlement award
An Authors Guild survey found members reporting that publishers often failed to register the copyrights AI settlements now require.
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