After Less Than a Week, Meta Shuts Down Controversial Instagram AI Image Feature Meta pulls its controversial Instagram AI image tool, which automatically opted in photos from…
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Meta Moves to Dismiss ‘Serial Litigant’ Wixen’s $100 Million+ Suit, Says the Publisher Is ‘Seeking to Transform a Routine Licensing Dispute Into a Sweeping’ Legal Battle Moments…
The Wixen vs. Meta Showdown Intensifies: Publisher Doubles Down on Defamation Allegations In Expanded $100 Million-Plus Lawsuit Right on cue, Wixen Music Publishing has fired off a…
Meta Hits Back Against Wixen Music Publishing’s $70 Million ‘AI Replacement’ Infringement Suit The high-stakes Wixen v. Meta infringement and defamation legal battle isn’t letting up. Now,…
Three Years Later, Epidemic Sound Expands Its Meta Copyright Battle With a New Lawsuit Alleging ‘Willful, Intentional and Purposeful’ Infringement Over three years into their ugly infringement…
Meta Moves to Dismiss Eminem Publisher’s Copyright Suit, Pointing to ‘The Absence of Virtually Any Specific Allegations’ Meta has officially moved to dismiss the infringement suit filed…
Federal Judge Allows Authors’ AI Copyright Case Against Meta to Move Forward After Dismissing a Portion of the Lawsuit A federal judge allows an AI copyright lawsuit…
Meta Considers Spinning Off Instagram Reels Into a Separate App Meta is looking into launching a standalone app for its Reels short-form videos, according to an anonymous…
Universal Music Group Inks ‘Expanded Global Agreement’ With Meta, Including WhatsApp Licensing and Efforts to Address ‘Unauthorized AI-Generated Content’ Universal Music Group (UMG) has inked an “expanded…
Merlin Renews and Expands Its Meta Partnership, With ‘A New Suite’ of Promotional Tools on the Way Facebook parent Meta and indie representative Merlin have renewed and…
Meta May Introduce Paid, Ad-Free Subscriptions to Europe in Response to Data Privacy Regulations Meta may introduce paid, ad-free plans for Facebook and Instagram in response to…
Meta Introduces AudioCraft — An AI Text-to-Audio Generator Meta has announced a new tool that can generate high-quality, realistic audio from text prompts called AudioCraft. The Story…
Federal Judge Orders Sarah Silverman vs. Meta Lawsuit Into ‘Alternative Dispute Resolution’ After comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta and OpenAI,…
Meta Releases AI Music Generator Trained on ‘10,000 High-Quality Licensed Music Tracks’ Meta has released its own AI music generator called ‘MusicGen,’ trained on 10,000 licensed music tracks. The Story Continues Here.
Meta Slashes Another 6,000 Jobs — Including Instagram’s Head of Music Partnerships From May 19th through May 21st, drawing over 525,000 attendees from around the world to…
Meta Slapped With ‘Unprecedented’ $1.3 Billion EU Fine Over Data Transfers: ‘Serious Infringements Have Far-Reaching Consequences’ Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has officially slapped Facebook and Instagram…
Meta’s Reality Labs Burned Through $4 Billion Last Quarter — Or Roughly $44 Million a Day Will Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision ever materialize? Meta’s Reality Labs burned…
Italy Announces Meta Antitrust Investigation, Expresses Need for ‘Interim Measures’ Amid SIAE Licensing Dispute Less than one month after Meta pulled a number of Italian creators’ music amid a…
Global Publishing Industry Responds to Meta Licensing Standoff in Italy, Decrying ‘Unsurprising Strongarm Tactics’ Yesterday, the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE) revealed that its members’…
Italian Society of Authors and Publishers Works Pulled From Meta Platforms Amid Licensing Dispute Facebook parent Meta has pulled the works of Italian creators over a rights-related…
Meta Queues Up 10,000 More Layoffs, Dropping NFTs As Focus Meta has announced an additional round of 10,000 layoffs and a pivot away from NFTs. The Story…
Despite Backlash After ‘Emin-AI-em,’ David Guetta Says AI Is Music’s Future David Guetta created a rave hit featuring an AI-generated Eminem rap-a-like. He’s facing a lot of…
Court Rejects Meta Dismissal Motion In Epidemic Sound Copyright Infringement Suit Two months back, Facebook parent Meta moved to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by royalty-free…
Meta to Host Notorious B.I.G. VR Concert Experience Featuring the Rapper’s ‘Hyper-Realistic Avatar’ Meta has announced a virtual-reality concert featuring a “hyper-realistic avatar” depiction of Notorious B.I.G.…