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“The Future of AI belongs to those who combine technology with humanity”: France’s PM Macron at India AI Impact Summit 2026
Feb 23, 2026 · original
Last week, India hosted its flagship AI Impact Summit 2026, a global event held at the Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre (the same venue as the G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration), which hosted delegates from over 100 nations, including heads of government, 500 top AI leaders from 118 countries and key figures shaping the AI century: Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, among others. The Summit marked the first major global artificial intelligence convening hosted by a nation of the Global South. The Summit covered everything from philosophy to scale, with major commitments from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Indian conglomerates fueling a projected $250 billion AI ecosystem. Leading tech firms showcased cutting-edge AI products and solutions at a large-scale expo. ai fray attended the Summit, and has broken down some of the key
First appeal filed in German music copyright infringement case against OpenAI: panel not too likely to refer to European Court of Justice
Dec 9, 2025 · original
Context: Last month, ai fray broke the news that the Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court) enjoined OpenAI from reproducing unlicensed German song lyrics and from storing the related data on any infrastructure located in Germany in a case brought by Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA: November 11, 2025 ai fray article ). The case also declared OpenAI liable for damages to be determined in a subsequent proceeding. In that same decision (which we analyzed in greater detail here: November 11, 2025 ai fray article ), the Munich I Regional Court declined to adopt a suggestion by both parties to refer certain questions concerning the interpretation of EU copyright law to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). What’s new: GEMA prevailed on almost every count, but not on personality rights, and yesterday lodged an appeal against the G
Meta faces parallel antitrust investigations by EU Commission, Italian competition authority over AI use in WhatsApp
Dec 5, 2025 · original
Context: In October, Meta announced a new policy prohibiting AI providers from using a tool allowing businesses to communicate with customers via WhatsApp when AI is the primary service offered ( October 28, 2025 WhatsApp Business Solution Terms ). While it was previously open to “any business of any size” since May 2022 ( May 19, 2022 Tech Crunch article ), the policy will be shut down from January 15, 2026, for “general-purpose artificial intelligence assistants, or similar technologies as determined by Meta in its sole discretion”, except for Meta AI, which is tied to WhatsApp. For AI providers new to WhatsApp, the policy has already applied since October 15, 2025. In July, the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), Italy’s national competition authority, launched an investigation into Meta’s alleged violation of Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the Eu
German court held OpenAI liable for violating copyright in 15-word passage (besides longer ones), rejected non-profit argument: full decision
Nov 11, 2025 · original
Earlier today we broke the news on the GEMA v. OpenAI landmark copyright ruling by the Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court) and quoted the prevailing plaintiff’s chief lawyer on the significance of the decision and further steps. In this follow-up, we make the full text (in German) of the 65-page decision available and will highlight a few items that we found particularly interesting. First, here’s the public redacted version of the full judgment (in German): 42 O 14139-24 Endurteil Download Court deems OpenAI to reproduce and memorize copyrighted works, chides it for negligence The decision begins with a detailed discussion of how large language models (LLMs) operate. This is likely the most technical copyright judgment ever issued by a German (if not European) court. But all those technical arguments got OpenAI nowhere. At the end of the day, reproduction is reproduction and
First copyright ruling against OpenAI worldwide: music rights collecting society wins German injunction over song lyrics — to be appealed now
Nov 11, 2025 · original
Context: Different categories of right holders have brought dozens of copyright infringement lawsuits against AI providers, above all, OpenAI, though the biggest news so far has been the $1.5B+ settlement between book authors and Anthropic ( October 28, 2025 exclusive interview by ai fray ). The first OpenAI copyright trial worldwide took place in the Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court) this fall, and OpenAI faced a hostile (not in the sense of biased) court that agreed with the positions taken by music rights collecting society Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA) apart from a minor inconsequential detail ( September 29, 2025 ai fray article ). The decision was scheduled for today. What’s new: Presiding Judge Presiding Judge Dr. Elke Schwager, accompanied by Judges Mattes and Hahn, just announced the decision, which is con
OpenAI fails to strike output, pirate library arguments from copyright infringement class action
Oct 29, 2025 · original
Context: Last February, The Authors Guild and at least 28 different authors filed a class action against OpenAI in the Southern District of New York, alleging that it infringed plaintiffs’ copyrights in their books by downloading and reproducing plaintiffs’ works, by using those reproduced works to train OpenAI’s AI large language models, and by creating infringing works in the outputs of OpenAI’s LLM products, including ChatGPT ( February 5, 2024 class action complaint ). The suit was later consolidated with several other similar cases against OpenAI and Microsoft in a multidistrict litigation, and refiled in the same court in June. OpenAI has since moved to dismiss the complaint based on both the output and downloading arguments, because it “fails to plausibly allege substantial similarity between plaintiffs’ works and ChatGPT’s outputs or to cite or attach examples of allegedly infrin
EXCLUSIVE: lead counsel Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey on $1.5B Anthropic settlement
Oct 28, 2025 · original
In an exclusive interview with ai fray , Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey discussed the $1.5 billion settlement Bartz v. Anthropic copyright class action settlement that he was lead counsel for (on the plaintiff side), including why he decided to get involved in the case, the precedents it will set, and how authors can understand whether they are class members or not. The Bartz v. Anthropic settlement was first announced two months ago ( August 26, 2025 ai fray article ), although Judge William H. Alsup of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted preliminary approval of the settlement in September ( September 25, 2025 ai fray article ), before setting out his reasoning in a memorandum issued on Friday ( October 17, 2025 Northern District of California opinion ). The deal, if approved, would not only be the largest-ever copyright settlement, but also
‘That is theft, it’s pure theft’: an interview with Susman Godfrey AI lawyer Justin Nelson, co-lead counsel in $1.5B Anthropic matter
Oct 28, 2025 · original
In August, Anthropic and book authors’ counsel announced that they struck a $1.5 billion (or higher) settlement of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright class action ( August 26, 2025 ai fray article ) – a case that has set huge precedents for the industry. Judge William H. Alsup of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California then granted preliminary approval of the settlement late last month ( September 25, 2025 ai fray article ), setting out his reasoning in a memorandum issued on Friday ( October 17, 2025 Northern District of California opinion ). Co-lead counsel to the class of authors is Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey , who has a significant track record in IP litigation. Mr. Nelson has been a partner at Susman Godfrey since 2005 and has since helped Dominion Voting Systems strike a $787.5 million settlement with Fox, Green Mountain win a $64.5 million judgm
German xAI/Grok injunction poses fundamental legal threat to all AI chatbots in Germany: liability for falsehoods
Oct 13, 2025 · original
Context: Between 17% and 45% of what AI chatbots produce are classified as so-called “hallucinations”, and the rate at which this is happening continues to grow ( October 11, 2025 AI Multiple AI Hallucination leaderboard ). AI hallucinations are fabricated concepts, fake news, or unworkable ideas masked by technical jargon. Campact eV, a German non-governmental organization (NGO) that creates political pressure via digital campaigns on causes of the anti-nuclear and environmental movements, filed for a preliminary injunction in the Landgericht Hamburg (Hamburg Regional Court) against Elon Musk’s xAI/Grok for allegedly spreading falsehoods about it. The organization has obtained a number of legal wins over “falsehoods”, including one against Meta. What’s new: The Hamburg Regional Court has granted Campact’s request, issuing a court injunction against Elon Musk’s xAI/Grok for the false cla
BREAKING: OpenAI on losing track in German copyright case brought by music rights collecting society over song lyrics; injunction looms large
Sep 29, 2025 · original
Context: Last year, German music rights collecting society Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA) brought a copyright infringement action against OpenAI over song lyrics ( November 14, 2024 ai fray article ) in the Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court; comparable to a U.S. federal district court though state-operated). At a subsequent press briefing, GEMA officials said their members (composers as well as lyricists) were as fascinated as they were frightened by Generative AI ( November 19, 2024 ai fray article ). This case does not involve musical compositions, which are equally copyrightable and at issue in a separate case GEMA brought against Suno earlier this year ( January 21, 2025 ai fray article ). Several dozen AI copyright infringement lawsuits are pending worldwide, most of them in the United States. On Thursday, a U.S

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