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Iconic? Making a song and dance about AI transparency

Iconic? Making a song and dance about AI transparency

20 May 2025
By Michael Swinson, Emily King, Luke Hawthorne
In an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, more than 400 of the UK’s most celebrated artists and creative leaders, including Elton John, Coldplay, Dua Lipa, Paul McCartney, and Shakespeare’s Globe, urged the UK Parliament to protect copyright, ‘the lifeblood of the creative industries.’  The icons expressed their support for an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill that could have reshaped the relationship between the creative industries and AI developers by requiring AI companies to disclose which copyrighted works have been used to train their models.
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‘Have you any dreams you’d like to sell?’ Fleetwood Mac producer in copyright tiff with Broadway playwright

‘Have you any dreams you’d like to sell?’ Fleetwood Mac producer in copyright tiff with Broadway playwright

28 November 2024
By Cate Nagy, James Parker
Last month, Ken Caillat, author of the memoir Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album (Making Rumours) and producer of the album itself, commenced copyright infringement proceedings together with his co-author Steven Stiefel against the creators of the Broadway play Stereophonic in the United States District Court in New York.
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Fleshing out the copyright in a tattoo

Fleshing out the copyright in a tattoo

31 August 2020
By Verdi Guy
In what we understand to be an industry-first, the Copyright Agency (an Australian not-for-profit collecting society that also licences copyright protected literary and artistic works) has licenced an Indigenous artwork for a tattoo.
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Love is in the Ear – Federal Court of Australia finds copyright infringed by the sound of lyrics sung

Love is in the Ear – Federal Court of Australia finds copyright infringed by the sound of lyrics sung

27 May 2020
By Thomas Dysart
On 24 April 2020, Justice Perram of the Federal Court of Australia gave judgment in relation to a copyright dispute concerning the iconic Australian pop-hit classic, Love is in the Air, finding that a substantial part of the song had been copied by a US pop-duo, Glass Candy, and by France’s national airline, Air France, as part of its international marketing campaign.
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