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45% of the EU's total economic activity is attributable to the intellectual property industry worth EUR 6.6 trillion in Patents, Trade Marks, Industrial Design and Copyright. (25 September 2019, EUIPO)
We have collected in these pages a set of articles and news from around the world on the topic of Intellectual Property and Copyright, selected and verified by our Press Office.
DNA testing firm 23andMe fined 2.3m by UK regulator for 2023 data hack.
2025-06-24 The Guardian
In the summer of 2023, the U.S.-based company 23andMe was the victim of a major hacking attack; dealing with genomics and biotechnology, the company in question has, over the years, become an unrelenting source of sensitive data of billions of users, including medical and family information such as hereditary health co...
Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists.
2025-06-23 404 Media
Artificial intelligence has rapidly reached impressive levels of diffusion, going on to infiltrate within social media, daily and professional lives of most people. In recent times, the role of AI chatbots in the well-being of users has been investigated several times, especially in cases related to the psychological h...
Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for breach of contract, ‘unfair competition’.
2025-06-20 CNBC
According to a complaint made in early June by Reddit, one of the world's most famous entertainment forum platforms, artificial intelligence startup Anthropic allegedly trained its AI models using the personal data of the site's users without any kind of authorization or consent. This move allegedly hurt the platform e...
Right to Repair movement having its most productive year ever in U.S. states.
2025-06-19 PIRG
Within the U.S. territory, the management of machine repairs of any kind is not in the hands of the consumer, it resides solely in the responsibilities of the manufacturing companies that own the product of the case. In the world of the Internet, for example, there has been a general cultural awareness regarding McDona...
Getty Images spending millions to battle a ‘world of rhetoric’ in AI suit, CEO says.
2025-06-18 CNBC
Craig Peters, CEO of Getty Images, a world-famous U.S. photo agency, recently stated that the company is “spending millions of dollars” in a lawsuit against one of the most influential AI image generators currently on the tech scene.
Stability AI, as well as many other models that offer image generation services, ...
Orange Inc. Launches Emaqi Manga App in North America.
2025-06-17 Anitrendz
As a result of the recent “manga purge” that has taken place in the vast world of the Internet, several fans have been left without services through which to keep up to date with the latest chapters released. The removal of more than 700 titles from popular sites has undoubtedly affected the Japanese comics landsca...
AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem.
2025-06-16 The Pragmatic Engineer - Newsletter
Today's reference article comes from a different source than our usual one, as it is a digression published within The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, run by Gergely Orosz, writer of “The Software Engineer's Guidebook.”
Artificial intelligence is making its way within the work sector with excessive ease, and not on...
VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom.
2025-06-13 ArsTechnica
According to a recent investigation by Ars Technica, the online news outlet responsible for today's referenced article, Broadcom, one of the largest U.S. telecommunications networking companies, has reportedly begun sending termination letters to all owners of VMware perpetual licenses with expired support contracts.
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Artist Shocked To Find Her Poster Designs From 2017 In Bungie's Marathon: 'A Major Company Has Deemed It Easier To Pay A Designer To Imitate Or Steal My Work Than To Write Me An Email'.
2025-06-12 Kotaku
Last month, an artist made a series of rather interesting posts on her Bluesky account, recounting an unpleasant realization she had recently come to. The user, who goes by antire.al, claims, in fact, that some designs she created in 2017 were used without permission within a new video game from the studio Bungie, a fa...
AI-hallucinated cases end up in more court filings, and Butler Snow issues apology for 'inexcusable' lapse.
2025-06-11 ABA
Butler Snow, one of the most celebrated law firms within the United States of America, recently came under the spotlight of the media due to the misuse of artificial intelligence by some team members. The firm's lawyers allegedly used ChatGPT to conduct searches regarding a case they were handling, obtaining chatbot-ge...
Labels in licensing talks with AI music generators Suno and Udio.
2025-06-10 Music Business Worldwide
According to Bloomberg in a June 1 article, three of the world's most celebrated record labels are currently reportedly seeking licensing rights from the Suno and Udio platforms. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment are currently in negotiations with the two mentioned AI music generat...
Salesforce buys Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiring.
2025-06-09 Techcrunch
The hiring process has never been particularly straightforward: the responsibility of adding the correct professional within a functioning team, or a company in need of expanding its horizons, is considerable, and places those in this role in somewhat awkward positions.
Consequently, following this rapid spread of art...
Teachers Are Not OK
2025-06-06 404Media
Today's reference article is somewhat different from our usual content. The online news outlet 404Media recently conducted an investigation regarding the impact of artificial intelligence, and especially Large Language Models (LLMs), on the entire environment dedicated to education. In an attempt to shed some light on ...
Government AI copyright plan suffers fourth House of Lords defeat.
2025-06-05 BBC
For months now, the United Kingdom seems to have been in a rather uncomfortable impasse, an unpleasant situation seemingly lacking clear ways out, compromises that could reconcile the desires of different parties. The British government is quite adamant about its intention to introduce a rulethat would allow companies ...
700+ Manga Wiped Overnight: Manga Industry Declares War on Piracy.
2025-06-04 Anime Senpai
During the second week in the month of May 2025, there occurred what was from the outset described as “the largestmanga purge to date.” Enthusiasts and frequent users of sites such as MangaDex, in fact, suddenly found themselves deprived of comic book content that had become a guarantee in their daily lives. More t...
EUIPO releases study on generative artificial intelligence and copyright.
2025-06-03 EUIPO
The European Union's intellectual property office recently published a study on the relationship between generative artificial intelligence and copyright.
This technology has rapidly spread throughout the world and within most professional (and non-professional) contexts, considerably affecting the ethical and economi...