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Sports Leagues See 'X' as the 'Home of Social Media Piracy'Ernesto Van der Sar, 02 Aug 12:03 PM Similar to other user-generated content platforms, X

Sports Leagues See 'X' as the 'Home of Social Media Piracy' Ernesto Van der Sar, 02 Aug 12:03 PM Similar to other user-generated content platforms, X allows people to freely share content online. This includes text, images, music, video, and live streams. In some cases, content is shared by users of X without first obtaining permission from rightsholders. Over the years, various parties have called out Twitter/X over alleged copyright infringement. Research published by the EU Intellectual Property Office found that X is rife with piracy-related discussions. U.S. lawmakers, meanwhile, suggested that piracy is part of the company's business model. Last year, these complaints resulted in a lawsuit, filed by the major music labels. The companies accused Elon Musk's X Corp of "breeding" mass copyright infringement and demanded damages, which could reach $250 million. The lawsuit continues as copyright pressure continues to build. Sports Leagues and Broadcasters Demand Action This week, AP reported that a group of sports leagues and broadcasters had contacted X CEO Linda Yaccarino...Read More Suno & Udio to RIAA: Your Music is Copyrighted, You Can't Copyright Styles Andy Maxwell, 01 Aug 09:52 PM On June 24, 2024, the RIAA announced two separate copyright infringement lawsuits targeting what many believe are the most impressive services in the generative AI music market. Unchartered Labs, the owner of Udio, was sued in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. At the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the target was Suno, Inc. the company behind the AI platform of the same name. Plaintiffs including UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment, Atlantic Records and Warner Records, dominate both lawsuits, which contain broadly similar claims against both AI companies. The labels claim that Udio and Suno "copied decades worth of the world's most popular sound recordings" and then ingested those copies into AI models to generate outputs that "imitate the qualities of genuine human sound recordings" for the purpose of generating profit. The labels claim that both businesses "exploit copyrighted sound recordings without permission...Read More Are you looking for a VPN service? TorrentFreak sponsor NordVPN has some excellent offers. ©2024 TorrentFreak | Office 21338 PO Box 4336 Manchester, North West M61 0BW United Kingdom Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company