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This batch includes platform announcements on NoAI, content filtering, and anti-scraping measures; the protest’s beginning still requires evidence.

This batch includes two events: one-click blocking and the pay-per-crawl private beta.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

This case contains nine dated events; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

This case contains one dated event; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

This case contains one dated event; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

This case contains one dated event; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

This case contains two dated events; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

This case contains three dated events; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

This case contains two dated events; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

This case contains one dated event; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

Collected materials cover litigation, settlement and licensing, v6 release, revenue statements, and clarification of training consent; the case history is still being assembled.

This case contains three dated events; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

This case contains one dated event; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

This case contains one dated event; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Continuing record of SWA’s cross-border solidarity, creative education and training-licensing demands.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

From 2023 to 2026, SIAM used AI publishing rules and named explanations to defend author responsibility and reviewing labour, permitting conditional use rather than banning AI entirely.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

ADA’s early statement calls for consent, credit and compensation; later discussions and contract proposals are separately recorded.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

The publisher lists Journal of AI-Assisted Mathematics with Shing-Tung Yau as editor-in-chief and publication scheduled from 2027, four issues yearly. Its remit supports substantive AI contributions to pure mathematics while retaining proof standards and encouraging explanations of AI use and verification.

Akram’s 2023-dated collection presents varied literary responses to AI; Onyekachi’s poem stages pressure to adapt through its narrator’s accounts of displaced craft and writing.

The report describes Fly FM recruiting a person whose voice, personality and likeness would underpin a digital-twin DJ for an RM2,000 contract. Public criticism concerns remuneration and human employment.

Counsel reports a suit by Illinois and California residents alleging that Meta used Facebook and Instagram facial images for NameTag recognition and Emu/Muse Image generation, and collected biometric data without required consent.

IFPI announces commitments for participating distributors to verify rights and customer identities, assess infringement and AI-related risks, act on fraud, share intelligence lawfully and improve monitoring.

The report says ANI appealed a July refusal of interim relief; the High Court declined an immediate stay before hearing the other side and sought OpenAI's response.

UMG, Capitol Records and Capitol CMG allege deceptive distribution and copyright infringement involving mass AI content, identity and metadata accountability. The complaint distinguishes disclosed AI music use.

The court affirms dismissal of part of the DMCA action: the pleaded outputs lacking attribution did not establish removal or alteration of information from existing copies. The input theory was forfeited.

CWA reports ratification of contracts covering nearly 1,900 Blizzard workers and requiring discussion, evaluation and bargaining over workplace AI use.

The announcement says districts can incorporate standards into Microsoft agreements to protect student and educator data from model training, with safeguards, human oversight and transparency requirements.

The AI clause covers training, generation and third-party sublicensing for uploads from 8 September. Identifiable voice, name, likeness and digital replicas require separate written consent. Opt-out concerns future uses, excluding moderation, fraud detection and content identification.

On a prima facie assessment, the court restrains unauthorised uses of the performer's name, voice, likeness and other identity attributes and orders action on listed impersonation content, allowing further disputes to return to court.

The report describes a coalition of sound designers, recordists, mixers and libraries opposing unlicensed commercial-AI scraping and unlicensed media use, while advocating licensing.

The Guild urges publishers to relinquish long-out-of-print settlement claims to authors and compensate authors excluded by publishers' contractual registration failures. It says it lacked access to the downloaded-work dataset.

The governor announces signing SB 1050, requiring disclosures in audio/video advertising using synthetic performers and restricting continued use of advertisements found in violation. SAG-AFTRA participated in drafting.

The Board overturns Meta's decision to retain a deepfake of a Scottish councillor, finding hate speech targeting refugees, and calls for stronger responses to harmful deepfakes.

NUJ opposes Reach's proposal to remove about 220 full-time-equivalent roles while creating 60. It reports the company attributing traffic losses to AI overviews and search-algorithm changes, and calls for journalism protection.

The published announcement reports 26 additional publishers and Platkin LLP representation reaching 60 publishers and over 550 publications, alleging news copying and copyright-management-information violations.

SOCAN alleges that Suno makes available and streams outputs reproducing its repertoire in Canada, infringing performing rights; it identifies a sample of 150 publicly accessible outputs.

UMG argues that SRLA Article 21(a) imports rates from another applicable agreement and that no AI-use agreement exists. It seeks dismissal and recounts AFM’s competing view that the SRLA itself can supply rates.

The official 2026 terms permit work completed partly with generative AI while requiring ownership, respect for third-party rights, contact with the portrait subject and disclosure of AI tools.

A report says Isbell and other musicians allege unauthorised name-based music generation; Suno denies the claims.

The report says Suno withdrew an advertisement featuring Mary J. Blige and quotes the company’s explanation that an intermediary lacked authority to represent her.

The newspapers allege unlicensed copying for datasets, training and outputs, seeking damages, injunctions and impoundment or destruction of models and datasets incorporating their works.

Anthropic discloses a fourth incident involving an early Opus 4.6 test in January 2026 and access to real systems outside authorised testing scope.

ADIP opposes proposed Article 71T, arguing it would facilitate AI training without creators’ permission or payment; it calls for government and congressional reconsideration and participation by other creative associations.

SIDARTE announces a free members’ workshop on AI and theatre, combining actors’ labour impacts, challenges and opportunities with AI applications in stage design, production and dramaturgy.

Nalubaale Review calls for English-language manuscripts from African and diaspora writers, requiring original unpublished work and rejecting AI-generated work; deadline 30 June.

NoAIList.org registers projects with public commitments against generative AI use, requesting a project link, category and public statement.

We and AI announces the AI Resist List, organising resistance through nine pillars and four approaches.

Open to playful generator use in 2023, publicly refusing in 2025; creator remuneration remains a shared concern.

IO criticises Ernst Klett Verlag’s reported replacement of its illustration framework agreement with a creative-services base agreement, objecting to AI clauses and expanded editing and usage rights; it calls for revisions and offers dialogue.

SAGAI reports producing a videopodcast hosted by Fredi Vivas on intellectual property, virtual production, limits on AI use, and challenges and opportunities for performers; full conversations were promised for later release.

This competition restricts AI construction and publishes works imagining writers’ future roles; enforcement remains unchecked.

On 6 December 2023, Autori di Immagini, ICWA and Strade jointly sought AI terms in author contracts, disclosure on finished products, fair pay throughout production, and no public funding for AI-using publications and productions.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

Japan Actors Union proposes training permission, AI labelling, limits on replacement of human performance and voice rights, while recognising assistive uses.

ACE, ACE Traductores and FADIP criticise the Madrid Book Fair’s use of an AI-generated image and call on cultural institutions to protect creative labour; the statement also thanks the fair for a correction and apology.

Germany’s VDS distinguishes supplementary voice applications from artistic interpretation, seeks performers’ control over content and ethical standards, and advocates a human-voice quality label. Added 2026 Netflix training-permission complaints and BFFS’s differing interpretation.

On 30 September 2026, IMPF and IMPEL proposed principles for generative-AI music licensing. They distinguish payments for past uses, training, generated outputs and future exploitation, and call for rightsholder involvement in scope and valuation. This is an industry negotiating framework, not a concluded collective licence or a statutory tariff.

In case 25-2153, the Third Circuit affirmed the copyright and fair-use ruling concerning 2,243 Westlaw headnotes. The opinion records a filing date of 29 September 2026; the court’s public list records the case on 30 September. The dispute concerns protected summaries used for a competing legal-search system. The ROSS system at issue was not generative AI.

Section 15 of Public Act 26-15 takes effect on 1 October 2026. It imposes provenance duties on covered providers of generative-AI systems with over one million monthly users that are publicly accessible for personal use by Connecticut consumers. It concerns generated or materially altered audio, images and video, subject to commercial and technical reasonableness.

SB 8 / Chapter 445, approved on 12 May 2026, takes effect on 1 October and amends Criminal Law §8-301. It brings specified AI and deepfake conduct within identity-fraud rules. The relevant prohibition requires knowing, wilful conduct and fraudulent intent, addressing harmful impersonation and specified false-record practices rather than generally banning AI art or stylistic imitation.

ArtStation

ArtStation

ArtStation

Cloudflare

Cloudflare

ITmedia

Initiative Urheberrecht

Authors Guild

SAG-AFTRA

APRA AMCOS

Câmara dos Deputados

Is This What We Want?

NAFCA

Christie’s

Artist signatories of the open letter

Beijing High People’s Court, Jingfa Wangshi; supplied by Beijing Internet Court and published through The Paper’s government channel

Equity

ACTRA

SGDL / SNAC / SNE

SAMRO

SAG-AFTRA

Authors Guild

WGA

WGA

SAND Lab, University of Chicago

MPA

MPA

MPA

TikTok / ByteDance

Variety Australia

Variety Australia

TheWrap

MPA

MPA

MPA

Authors Guild

Writers’ Guild of Ireland

SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA

Jiemian News, republished by Sina Finance

Getty Images

WGA

Plaintiffs, provided through RIAA

Plaintiffs, provided through RIAA

Warner Music Group

Universal Music Group

Warner Music Group

Artist Rights Alliance

Campaign project website

The Indian Express

Volunteer voice actors’ group

ITmedia

News1

Plaintiffs; copy provided by ClassAction.org

Shawn Shan and others / arXiv

Artnet News

NPR, republished by WFSU

La Jornada

El Financiero

TV Cultura

Dublagem Viva

Boris Eldagsen

CELSYS

CELSYS

Procreate

GIGAZINE

Wizards of the Coast / D&D Beyond

Game Developer

Chaosium

Chaosium

PC Gamer

Cara

Cara

Cara

Spawning

Spawning

PC Gamer

Bombay High Court / Republication by Indian Kanoon

Delhi High Court / Republication by Indian Kanoon

Al Masry Al Youm

Cumhuriyet / ANKA

Birsen Altuntaş

Bollywood Hungama / Subhash K. Jha

Bollywood Hungama

South African Guild of Actors

Diario Oficial de la Federación / Secretaría de Gobernación

SFWA

SAG-AFTRA

Ed Newton-Rex

Statement on AI training

DACS

Kementerian Ekraf / Badan Ekraf RI

Warta Ekonomi

ANMTV / Albert Cardozo

Literary Hub / Drew Broussard

Society of Authors

AAPV / PASAVE

Sài Gòn Giải Phóng / Ca Dao

Comic-Con

Graphic Policy

WIRED / Will Knight

OpenAI

SAG-AFTRA

Bleeding Cool / Rich Johnston

MobileSyrup / Bradly Shankar

PetaPixel / Matt Growcoot

TorrentFreak / Andy Maxwell

Concept Art Association

Artnet News / Vittoria Benzine

The Art Newspaper / Gareth Harris

Hyperallergic / Rhea Nayyar

News Media Association

DACS / AOI / AOP / PICSEL

Ars Technica / Benj Edwards

Newgrounds

United States Copyright Office

United States Copyright Office

PTI / Outlook India

TheWrap

Dianchang / He Chang; republished by Jiemian News

Red Star News

The Paper

SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA

Fanqie Novel

ABC News / Good Morning America

SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA / AMPTP

SAG-AFTRA and jointly signing organizations

China News Service / Republication by Sina

The Cover / Republication by Sina, drawing on Southern Metropolis Daily and studios

Beijing Daily app / Republication by Sina

Qianjiang Evening News / Republication by Sohu

Lianhe Zaobao

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Supreme Court of the United States

Getty Images Holdings

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California

South African Cultural Observatory

CISAC

Recording Academy

Office of Senator Peter Welch

Music Creators North America

Music Creators North America

CIAM

Electric South

U.S. District Court, S.D. New York

Loevy + Loevy

The New York Times Company

U.S. District Court, S.D. New York

OpenAI defendants

CODA

Spectrum News 1

Prisma Labs

Central News Agency (CNA)

BFF Berufsverband Freie Fotografen und Filmgestalter

FREELENS

Deutscher Fotorat

TVA Nouvelles / Agence QMI

Le Journal de Québec

Six Quebec cultural unions

Presse-toi à gauche ! / Regroupement pour l’art humain

SNAC

APIC

ARA Balears

EGAIR

EGAIR

EGAIR

Autori di Immagini

The Animation Guild

radar

PAGCOR

Interaksyon / Philstar

The Animation Guild

The Animation Guild

AMPTP

The Animation Guild

Ng Yi-Sheng