Quad9 to exit France(quad9.net)
1320 points by farrokhi | 456 comments
Quad9 blog post announcing it will withdraw its free DNS resolver service from France after a French court ruling in favor of beIN ordering DNS blocking.
#copyright on Hacker News
90 stories tagged copyright, newest first.
Corporate Linux(lpar.ath0.com)
18 points by speckx | 6 comments
Blog post criticizing the Linux kernel's relaxed rules on disclosing LLM-assisted patches, arguing it undermines GPL enforcement and the free software community.
My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping(blog.ericgoldman.org)
74 points by speckx | 15 comments
Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog post sharing his introduction to a Reddit AMA on r/WebScrapingInsider about the law of web scraping.
Programming Isn't Special(blog.glyph.im)
219 points by ingve | 236 comments
Blog post by Glyph arguing that programming is creative work like art and that programmers should resist AI as artists and writers have.
License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, comics(davidrevoy.com)
27 points by frizlab | 12 comments
Blog post by artist David Revoy announcing a license update prohibiting AI-generated derivation of his art, lore, stories, and comics.
AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents(ahmath.org)
35 points by kkoncevicius | 31 comments
A statement from the AHM mathematicians' group responding to OpenAI's October 6, 2026 release of manuscripts claiming solutions to high-profile math problems.
Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
462 points by IvanK_net | 249 comments
Tell HN post by Photopea's developer complaining that GitHub rejected his DMCA takedown of repositories hosting ad-stripped copies of his web app.
A single license fee of £100k.00(dbushell.com)
10 points by corvad | 0 comments
David Bushell's copyright page for dbushell.com stating content ownership and licensing terms, reportedly including a £100k license fee for use.
Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project(github.com)
96 points by montag | 53 comments
GitHub issue on the Photosuite repo where Photopea's developer accuses the project of copying Photopea's web photo editor code.
AI Companies Are Parasites(coryd.dev)
37 points by cdrnsf | 13 comments
A personal blog opinion post on coryd.dev arguing AI companies are parasites that scrape content without compensation, train models on it, and sell metered access.
Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict(cosmowenman.substack.com)
322 points by CosmoWenman | 190 comments
Cosmo Wenman's Substack post criticizing the court verdict in his legal fight with the Rodin Museum over public access to 3D scans of Rodin sculptures.
Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI(authorsguild.org)
576 points by papergirl | 541 comments
Authors Guild press release on unsealed briefs in its lawsuit alleging Microsoft and OpenAI executives knew using pirated books for AI training was illegal.
The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
105 points by EA-3167 | 34 comments
MIT Press Reader article on the history of Tetris, covering disputes over its mathematical origins, erased collaborators, offshore money, and copyright control.
Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'(techcrunch.com)
788 points by pluc | 681 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that unredacted court filings show a Microsoft executive called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history.'
Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive(torrentfreak.com)
360 points by speckx | 212 comments
TorrentFreak article on Strike 3 Holdings seeking to tie a John Doe torrent lawsuit against a Meta Reality Labs executive to its $446M AI training case against Meta.
Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice(blog.luanti.org)
467 points by miniBill | 142 comments
Luanti team blog post explaining its Android app was removed from Google Play after a baseless AI-generated DMCA copyright notice.
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence(blog.curiousquail.com)
1360 points by speckx | 295 comments
Personal blog post contrasting the prosecution of RSS co-creator Aaron Swartz for scraping with Meta's large-scale scraping facing little consequence.
'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling(remysharp.com)
371 points by speckx | 136 comments
A blog bookmark post by Remy Sharp commenting on an EU Court of Justice ruling that VPNs are lawful technical tools, in the context of UK child-protection and privacy debates.
GCC steering committee announces AI policy(lwn.net)
335 points by arto | 384 comments
LWN brief reporting that the GCC steering committee adopted a policy declining legally significant contributions containing or derived from LLM-generated content.
AI companies are shredding rare books(twitter.com)
620 points by anon373839 | 372 comments
A tweet by @HedgieMarkets saying AI companies bulk-buy rare books via ISBNdb, cut off their spines to scan them, and shred the originals to obtain training data.
'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling(techradar.com)
632 points by healsdata | 125 comments
TechRadar news article on a Court of Justice of the EU ruling that VPNs are lawful tools and publishers and VPN providers aren't liable for copyright infringement in the Anne Frank case.
Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude(apnews.com)
517 points by BeetleB | 490 comments
AP News article reporting a judge's approval of a $1.5 billion settlement by Anthropic over pirated books used to train its Claude chatbot.
European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage(torrentfreak.com)
348 points by Brajeshwar | 98 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that EuroISPA asks the EU Commission to hold rightsholders liable for damage caused by overblocking in site blocking orders.
The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows(waxy.org)
357 points by ridesisapis | 143 comments
Andy Baio's Waxy.org post about a website that appears to plagiarize John Koenig's The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows and adds an AI word generator.
The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid(torrentfreak.com)
506 points by speckx | 248 comments
TorrentFreak article marking 20 years since Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay's servers, and how the site has remained online since.
AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale(axelk.ee)
665 points by speckx | 542 comments
A personal blog post arguing that AI companies train on authors' work without consent or compensation, amounting to plagiarism at scale.
Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement(variety.com)
373 points by spankibalt | 337 comments
Variety news article on a publishers' lawsuit, including author Scott Turow, alleging Mark Zuckerberg personally authorized Meta's copyright infringement in training AI models.
Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?(legallayer.substack.com)
504 points by senaevren | 464 comments
A Substack post explaining copyright ownership of AI-generated code from agentic tools like Claude Code, advising builders to document human creative contributions.
Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight(torrentfreak.com)
392 points by askl | 395 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting Spotify and major labels won a $322M default judgment and domain-suspension injunction against Anna's Archive operators.
The curious case of retro demo scene graphics(datagubbe.se)
330 points by zdw | 84 comments
Essay on the demo scene's attitude toward copying in pixel graphics, covering tracing, image conversion, and AI prompting.
Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music(nytimes.com)
382 points by oj2828 | 305 comments
New York Times article on the Supreme Court ruling for Cox Communications in a copyright case over subscribers' music piracy.
Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues(torrentfreak.com)
393 points by askl | 220 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting Meta's argument in a lawsuit that uploading pirated books via BitTorrent while training AI models qualifies as fair use.
Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension(torrentfreak.com)
578 points by CTOSian | 298 comments
TorrentFreak news article reporting that shadow library Anna's Archive lost its annas-archive.org domain after it was suspended and placed on serverHold status.
Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature(standardebooks.org)
351 points by WithinReason | 55 comments
Standard Ebooks blog post announcing 20 notable books entering the US public domain on Public Domain Day 2026, now free to read.
Happy Public Domain Day 2026(publicdomainreview.org)
410 points by apetresc | 83 comments
The Public Domain Review blog post celebrating Public Domain Day 2026, highlighting works and creators entering the public domain on January 1, 2026.
List of domains censored by German ISPs(cuiiliste.de)
367 points by elcapitan | 141 comments
CUIIListe.de page listing domains blocked by German ISPs under the CUII (Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet) copyright clearing body.
FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub(twitter.com)
468 points by merlindru | 155 comments
An X (Twitter) post from the FFmpeg account about issuing a DMCA takedown on GitHub; the post content did not load in the capture.
What will enter the public domain in 2026?(publicdomainreview.org)
460 points by herbertl | 325 comments
The Public Domain Review's festive countdown of notable works whose copyrights expire and enter the public domain on January 1, 2026.
Disney Lost Roger Rabbit(pluralistic.net)
482 points by leephillips | 225 comments
Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic newsletter edition of 18 Nov 2025, about Disney losing rights to Roger Rabbit, likely via copyright termination.
'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately(techdirt.com)
348 points by speckx | 177 comments
Techdirt article on the 25th anniversary of the game 'No One Lives Forever', which remains legally unavailable for purchase due to murky rights ownership.
Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement(arstechnica.com)
350 points by coloneltcb | 148 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that the Internet Archive's copyright lawsuit with music publishers over digitized 78rpm records has ended in a settlement.
Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors(nytimes.com)
904 points by acomjean | 686 comments
New York Times article on Anthropic agreeing to pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright class action brought by book authors; the capture shows a captcha page.
Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge(businessinsider.com)
383 points by pyman | 517 comments
Business Insider article on a judge's ruling that Anthropic scanned millions of cut-up used books and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones to train Claude.
US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired(theregister.com)
336 points by croes | 201 comments
The Register reports the head of the US Copyright Office was fired a day after the office's draft report found AI training on copyrighted works can exceed fair use.
You wouldn't steal a font(fedi.rib.gay)
1308 points by todsacerdoti | 375 comments
A fediverse post on an Iceshrimp instance titled "You wouldn't steal a font"; the post content did not load in the capture.
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip(theaiunderwriter.substack.com)
1431 points by participant3 | 861 comments
A Substack post on The AI Underwriter about AI image generators reproducing copyrighted characters like Indiana Jones from generic prompts.
US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted(reuters.com)
690 points by rvz | 463 comments
Reuters article reporting that a US appeals court ruled AI-generated art without a human creator cannot be copyrighted.
Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says(arstechnica.com)
452 points by coloneltcb | 153 comments
Ars Technica article on music labels' copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive over digitized 78 rpm records, with a sound historian warning of consequences.
Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding(arstechnica.com)
570 points by isaacfrond | 382 comments
Ars Technica article on Meta's legal defense that torrenting pirated books for AI training isn't infringement without proof it seeded files.
Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data(arstechnica.com)
1118 points by gameshot911 | 804 comments
Ars Technica article on unsealed Meta emails in an authors' copyright case alleging Meta torrented and seeded 81.7 TB of pirated books to train AI.
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us(404media.co)
1184 points by latexr | 522 comments
404 Media article on OpenAI accusing DeepSeek of using its model outputs, noting OpenAI itself trained on others' data without permission.
3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation(twitter.com)
753 points by talonx | 363 comments
A post on X by 3Blue1Brown about his YouTube video on Bitcoin being taken down as a copyright violation.
Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway(apnews.com)
364 points by sohkamyung | 170 comments
AP News article on works entering the US public domain in 2025, including Popeye, Tintin, and novels by Faulkner and Hemingway.
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment(mercurynews.com)
809 points by mmorearty | 300 comments
Mercury News report that former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji, 26, who alleged the company broke copyright law, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment.
Save Music, Save the Archive(savethearchive.com)
324 points by m463 | 168 comments
Fight for the Future campaign page with an open letter from 350+ musicians urging major labels to drop their lawsuit against the Internet Archive.
What will enter the public domain in 2025?(publicdomainreview.org)
373 points by Tomte | 297 comments
The Public Domain Review's festive countdown feature highlighting notable works whose copyright expires and that enter the public domain in 2025.
Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever(techdirt.com)
411 points by chocmake | 96 comments
Techdirt article reporting that Epic Games has allowed the Internet Archive to freely distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament, framed around game preservation and copyright.
The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)(theatlantic.com)
456 points by lispybanana | 175 comments
A 2017 Atlantic article by James Somers about how Google scanned millions of books but its plan for a universal digital library was stalled by a failed copyright settlement.
U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction(torrentfreak.com)
348 points by samizdis | 329 comments
News article on a U.S. court ordering pirate library LibGen to pay $30 million to publishers and issuing a broad injunction against its domains.
The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive(storage.courtlistener.com)
888 points by Signez | 673 comments
PDF of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, ruling against the Internet Archive's appeal over its digital book lending.
17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist(torrentfreak.com)
429 points by isaacfrond | 166 comments
TorrentFreak article about a 17-year-old German student who launched a site exposing the domains secretly blocked by German ISPs under a voluntary agreement with rightsholders.
Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike's bogus DMCA takedown(arstechnica.com)
380 points by stalfosknight | 112 comments
Ars Technica article on how parody site ClownStrike rejected a CrowdStrike DMCA takedown notice, citing fair use.
Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit(theregister.com)
326 points by samspenc | 349 comments
The Register article reporting that a judge dismissed most claims, including the DMCA claim, in the class-action copyright lawsuit against GitHub Copilot, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win(arstechnica.com)
461 points by cratermoon | 403 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that the Internet Archive had to remove about 500,000 books from its lending library after publishers won their copyright lawsuit.
Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003)(tomwaitslibrary.info)
370 points by Borrible | 235 comments
Tom Waits Library fan-archive page documenting Waits v. Frito-Lay, his lawsuit over a Doritos ad imitating his voice, opening with his quote against advertising use of music.
Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages(twitter.com)
388 points by ndiddy | 274 comments
An X/Twitter post reporting that the Yuzu Switch emulator developers settled Nintendo's lawsuit, agreeing to pay $2.4M in damages.
On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney(catandgirl.com)
650 points by earthboundkid | 775 comments
A Cat and Girl webcomic in which the cartoonist reflects on being named in a court document listing artists whose work was used to train Midjourney.
All DMCA Notices Filed Against TorrentFreak in 2023 Were Bogus(torrentfreak.com)
393 points by HieronymusBosch | 102 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that every DMCA takedown notice filed against the site in 2023 was invalid, sent by anti-piracy companies.
Disney's Mickey Mouse enter public domain(bbc.com)
347 points by coolandsmartrr | 160 comments
BBC News article reporting that Disney's earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse entered the US public domain on 1 January 2024 as copyright expired.
NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances(arstechnica.com)
457 points by justinc8687 | 758 comments
Ars Technica article on the New York Times copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, which seeks destruction of GPT models trained on Times content.
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement(theverge.com)
466 points by ssgodderidge | 594 comments
The Verge news article reporting that The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging millions of its articles were copied to train ChatGPT and Copilot models.
Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle(web.law.duke.edu)
330 points by mortenjorck | 180 comments
Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain article by Jennifer Jenkins on Mickey Mouse, Disney, and the copyright history leading to Steamboat Willie entering the public domain.
If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing(pluralistic.net)
1007 points by jay_kyburz | 473 comments
Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog post arguing that if buying digital media isn't owning it, then piracy isn't stealing.
Google sues two men who weaponized DMCA notices to crush competition(torrentfreak.com)
351 points by HieronymusBosch | 155 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that Google sued two men accused of using 65 accounts to send fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting competitors' URLs.
Willingham sends Fables into the public domain(billwillingham.substack.com)
672 points by Tomte | 252 comments
Bill Willingham's Substack post with a press release announcing he is placing his Fables comic series into the public domain, and explaining why.
Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot(blogs.microsoft.com)
470 points by wgx | 328 comments
Microsoft blog post announcing the Copilot Copyright Commitment, under which Microsoft assumes legal liability for copyright claims against customers using Copilot outputs.
TV Museum will die in 48 hours unless Sony retracts YouTube copyright strikes(torrentfreak.com)
342 points by CoBE10 | 181 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that the Museum of Classic Chicago Television's YouTube channel faces deletion within 48 hours due to Sony copyright strikes.
Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media(blog.archive.org)
364 points by leotravis10 | 157 comments
Internet Archive blog post responding to a recording industry lawsuit over its digitization of obsolete media such as 78rpm records.
Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio(mastodon.social)
613 points by luu | 195 comments
A Mastodon post by Halvar Flake arguing that downloading YouTube videos should be fair use, linking a TorrentFreak article about the youtube-dl site going offline.
YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban(torrentfreak.com)
380 points by marban | 190 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that hosting provider Uberspace took down the youtube-dl website after a German court ruling in a copyright lawsuit by major record labels.
Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge(torrentfreak.com)
357 points by gslin | 42 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that the EFF will give Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan an award for providing access to scientific knowledge.
Valve bans games using AI generated graphics or text from Steam(old.reddit.com)
587 points by Wouter33 | 300 comments
Reddit post in r/aigamedev where a developer shares Valve's rejection of their Steam game over AI-generated assets lacking clear intellectual property rights.
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EU Advocate General: Technical Standards must be freely available [pdf](curia.europa.eu)
386 points by layer8 | 72 comments
Court of Justice of the EU press release on an Advocate General opinion that harmonised technical standards must be freely accessible.
High prices make textbook ‘piracy’ acceptable to most students(torrentfreak.com)
378 points by andrew-ld | 281 comments
TorrentFreak article on Rights Alliance research showing most Danish students find pirating textbooks acceptable due to high prices despite lawsuits.
Japan’s government will not enforce copyrights on data used in AI training(technomancers.ai)
412 points by version_five | 329 comments
Blog post reporting that Japan's government will not enforce copyright on data used for AI training.
Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians(techdirt.com)
421 points by latexr | 252 comments
Techdirt opinion piece by Mike Masnick arguing Ed Sheeran's copyright lawsuits show modern copyright stifles rather than helps musicians.
Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy(arstechnica.com)
449 points by PaulHoule | 193 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that a judge voided film studios' subpoena seeking the identities of Reddit users who commented about piracy.
The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)(gizmodo.com)
353 points by grecy | 75 comments
Gizmodo news article reporting that the European Commission withheld a 300-page study finding no evidence that online piracy harms sales of copyrighted content.
YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship(torrentfreak.com)
414 points by thunderbong | 162 comments
TorrentFreak article on a German court ruling holding host Uberspace liable for hosting the youtube-dl website, with the owner warning of privatized censorship.
If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed(sbstatesman.com)
1574 points by raybb | 532 comments
Opinion column in The Statesman (Stony Brook student paper) arguing that losing the Internet Archive would be a major blow to preserving online knowledge.