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| Jun 16, 2026 | AI Music Copyright Lawsuit: Suno Discovery Shows Millions of Songs, July Ruling Nears | By Richard L. Wells
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| Nov 20, 2024 | SoundCloud launches new generative AI tools while pledging to remain ethical | The company also announced partnerships with Audible Magic and Pex
Despite the controversy over the use of AI in the creation of art, which nearly 90% of artists believing current copyright laws do not protect them from generative AI techno... |
| May 28, 2024 | Cox Appeals Billion Dollar Piracy Verdict Over ‘Concealed Evidence’ | Late 2019, Internet provider Cox Communications lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels, including Sony and Universal.
Following a two-week trial, a Virginia jury held Cox liable for its pirating subscribers. The ISP fa... |
| Sep 9, 2022 | 🚨🚨🚨Twitch Decides A Siren Sound Effect Is Covered By Copyright And Silences Stream | Alongside death and taxes, one of life’s great certainties is a constant flow of absurd copyright claims. Here’s one from the world of live videogame streaming on the popular Twitch platform, owned by Amazon. A group of Spanish-speaking str... |
| Jan 23, 2019 | There Was Heavy Tech Lobbying On Article 13… From The Company Hoping To Sell Everyone The Filters | One of the key themes we’ve been hearing for years now concerning the EU’s awful Article 13 section of the EU Copyright Directive, was that no one should pay any attention at all to the critics of Article 13, because it’s all just “big tech... |
| Jan 11, 2017 | Audible Magic Accuses YouTube of Fraud Over Content ID Trademark | Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technologies have been available to the public for a number of years. Perhaps the most visible is the mobile app Shazam, which allows users to identify the name of a song after listening to just a short c... |
| Sep 27, 2016 | The EU's Proposed Copyright Directive Is Likely To Be A Wonderful Gift — For US Internet Giants | A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt ran through the catalog of horrors that make up the EU’s new Copyright Directive proposals, pointing out that they would be a general disaster in their current form. Of course, the misery would not be evenly ... |
| Feb 4, 2015 | Anti-Piracy Outfit Sends Porn ‘Fines’ to University | For more than a decade copyright holders have been sending out warnings and threats to people they believe have downloaded and shared content without permission. In 2015 the practice is now at unprecedented levels.
While some might agree th... |
| Feb 2, 2013 | Mediafire Swaps “Pirate” Links for “Buy Now” Button | When Megaupload was shut down last year the actions of competing file-hosting services were watched closely by the press and copyright holders.
Some concluded that other services were guilty by association, and Hollywood went as far as nami... |
| Aug 31, 2012 | How Shazam stayed on top by reinventing itself — twice | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Naming that tune has been the name of Shazam’s game for more than decade. But should you confuse Shazam for a predictable, tired old co... |
| Apr 16, 2012 | Digitalsmiths and Audible Magic Team to Power Enhanced Second-Screen Viewing Experiences | DURHAM, NC, and LOS GATOS, CA, April 16, 2012 – Digitalsmiths, the leader in video content discovery and personalized viewing solutions, and Audible Magic, the leader in automated content recognition (ACR) technology, today announced that A... |
| Jan 9, 2012 | Only at CES: Could Tweets Replace Ads? | It’s called engagement, it’s the catchphrase behind one of ReadWriteWeb’s top technologies of the year, and it’s emerging as one of the latest conceptual technologies on the floor of CES 2012 this week. In the back of ad executives’ minds d... |
| Sep 26, 2008 | CopySense Sleek Predator, or White Elephant? | We recently reported how Ohio University spent more than $75,000 on the CopySense anti-piracy system, and we promised an insight into how the system works. CopySense is the network equivalent of the Eye of Sauron, watching over the lands it... |
| Aug 17, 2008 | Tackling College Piracy: MPAA and RIAA’s Favorite | Ohio University (OU) and 7 other universities decided that blocking the many legitimate uses for P2P is not the best idea. Instead they have decided to go the high-tech route instead. They went for the method touted by the music industry, a... |
| Jun 27, 2008 | EMI Music Sues Hi5, VideoEgg and Ten Defendants To Be Named Later | EMI, which is looking less like a music label and more like a lawsuit label, is at it again. This afternoon they filed a lawsuit alleging “massive and blatant” copyright infringement by Hi5, VideoEgg and ten John Doe defendants to be named ... |
| Jan 28, 2008 | Eyealike promises to improve search for copyrighted videos | Eyealike may be a tiny company, but it’s hoping to bring some big changes to the landscape of online copyright.
President Greg Heuss said Eyealike Copyright, which is launching at DEMO, will allow both copyright-holders and content-hosting ... |
| Jul 6, 2007 | Belgian court orders ISP to block copyrighted content | updated
A Belgian court has ordered the third-largest Internet service provider in the country, Scarlet, to block its users from sharing copyrighted music, video and other files belonging to a Belgian group of entertainment artists and publ... |
| Jun 8, 2007 | Audible Magic’s copyright filtering technology not working | Audible Magic, the Los Gatos company that protects music and other content publishers from piracy by scanning files posted around the Web, is having problems.
NewTeeVee tested the so-called finger-printing technology across multiple sites, ... |
| Feb 26, 2007 | The Corporate Enemies of Filesharers | The idea here is to give an overview of anti-p2p activity. This is by no means an exhaustive report but the aim is to give a summary of some of the companies developing a new industry – one dedicated to disrupting the activities of file-sha... |
| Feb 22, 2007 | YouTube to start filtering for pirated video? | YouTube will start filtering videos and other content in order to stop pirated material from being posted to it site, reports the Mercury News’ Elise Ackerman.
The news is significant because the entire music and video industry has been up ... |
| Feb 22, 2007 | There is no YouTube Filter; It's AudibleMagic | After months of intense and very public debate, closely tied to the Google acquisition, YouTube is reported to have licensed copyright filtering technology from AudibleMagic. The San Jose Mercury News cites two unnamed sources as saying tha... |
| Feb 14, 2007 | Roundup: TrenchMice, Pheedo’s new ads, and more | The latest roundup of tech stuff:
TrenchMice, a nice F***ed Company? — TrenchMice is a new site trying to mobilize people to submit and edit comments about businesses and employers. Let us know what you think. We tried using it to look for ... |
| Feb 12, 2007 | MySpace to Implement Copyrighted Video Filtering | MySpace announced this morning that it is offering free indexing to any content producers who want to block users from uploading their copyrighted videos. The site has been offering audio filtering and limited video filtering since late las... |