Anthropic’s $1.5B Book-Piracy Settlement Gets Final Sign-Off
A federal judge approved the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history on Monday, clearing Anthropic to pay roughly $3,000 per…
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California’s DROP Tool Puts 614 Data Brokers on a 45-Day Clock
California's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform lets residents send one deletion and opt-out-of-sale request to every data broker registered in…
John Hancock Voiceprint Suit Exposes Limits of Illinois BIPA
A ruling in a biometric privacy lawsuit against John Hancock shows Illinois' BIPA isn't a blanket shield for plaintiffs, according…
EFF Warns NY’s ‘Stealth Crawler’ Bill Would Unmask Anonymous Scraping
The NY Stealth Crawler Protection Act, now awaiting Governor Hochul's signature, would let websites obtain court orders unmasking anonymous crawlers…
COPPA’s ‘Actual Knowledge’ Defense Is Losing Its Cover, AdExchanger Warns
AdExchanger’s Allison Schiff argues in a July 20, 2026 column that the ad industry’s long-standing reliance on COPPA’s 'actual knowledge'…
xAI Appeals Dismissal of Data Center Trade Secret Suit vs. OpenAI
Elon Musk's xAI is taking its trade secret dispute over data center practices to the Ninth Circuit after a U.S.…
Patreon Teams With Cloudflare to Actively Block AI Scrapers
Patreon announced July 17, 2026 that it is partnering with Cloudflare to actively block AI bots from scraping creator content…
Report: Fake DMCA Takedowns Are Erasing News Articles From Google Search
Press Gazette's Rob Waugh reports that spurious DMCA copyright notices are prompting Google to delist thousands of news articles worldwide,…
Australia Rejects AI Copyright Carve-Out, PM Calls Unlicensed Training ‘Theft’
According to Tech Times (July 16, 2026), Australia's government has ruled out a copyright exemption for AI training, with the…
Google’s AI Search, Image Push Collides With New Copyright Suit
Google is expanding AI features in Search and its image tools even as it faces a fresh copyright lawsuit and…