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WinbuzzerElevenLabs Enters AI Music Fray With Licensed Data, Challenging Legally Embattled Rivals Suno and Udio<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIMusic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElevenLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElevenLabs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Licensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Licensing</a> <a href="https://winbuzzer.com/2025/08/05/elevenlabs-enters-ai-music-fray-with-licensed-data-challenging-legally-embattled-rivals-suno-and-udio-xcxwbn" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://winbuzzer.com/2025/08/05/elevenlabs-enters-ai-music-fray-with-licensed-data-challenging-legally-embattled-rivals-suno-and-udio-xcxwbn</a>

IndieAuthors.Social NewsProgramming: The International Publishers Association at FrankfurtThe International Publishers Association has a full schedule of events planned for Frankfurter Buchmesse, most open to trade visitors. <a href="https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/08/programming-the-international-publishers-association-at-frankfurt/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/08/programming-the-international-publishers-association-at-frankfurt/</a><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/Diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Diversity</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/FrankfurtBookFair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FrankfurtBookFair</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/indieauthors" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@indieauthors</a>

Jonathan BaileyLaunched in 2021, Sylvania Drama was one of the most popular TikTok channels. However, it's gone dark due to a controversial lawsuit.<a href="https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/08/04/dolls-gone-bad-the-war-over-sylvanian-drama/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/08/04/dolls-gone-bad-the-war-over-sylvanian-drama/</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TikTok</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SylvanianFamilies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SylvanianFamilies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trademark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trademark</a>

Matthew RimmerA best-selling Vancouver author has launched a class-action lawsuit against Nvidia, claiming the multi-trillion dollar tech company illegally used his and other Canadian writers' works to train artificial intelligence large language models (LLM). <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-author-leads-class-actions-against-ai-giants-1.7595962" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-author-leads-class-actions-against-ai-giants-1.7595962</a> J.B. MacKinnon is named as the representative plaintiff in the claim, which says his books, The 100-Mile Diet and The Once and Future World, were part of a 196,640-book dataset that Nvidia used without paying a licensing fee or securing consent to acquire or use the works. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#copyright</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a>

Shine My CrownTyla Faces Lawsuit Over Water Royalties | Songwriters Claim Producer Credit Dispute in Court <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlN_2MABW44&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlN_2MABW44&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MusicIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MusicIndustry</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Songwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Songwriters</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Lawsuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lawsuit</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ProducerCredit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProducerCredit</a>

internetarchiveTom Lehrer (1928–2025) made musical satire sing…and sting. His songs were funny, outrageous, & often uncomfortably true.He died recently at 97. Years earlier, he disclaimed copyright to all his lyrics and compositions; a gesture as radical as his songs.We remember his life, his legacy, & what it means for the <a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/tags/digitalcommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#digitalcommons</a> ⤵️ <a href="https://blog.archive.org/2025/08/01/tom-lehrer-1928-2025-a-life-in-satire-a-legacy-in-the-commons/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.archive.org/2025/08/01/tom-lehrer-1928-2025-a-life-in-satire-a-legacy-in-the-commons/</a><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/tags/TomLehrer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TomLehrer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/tags/Satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Satire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/tags/PublicDomain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PublicDomain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/tags/InternetArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternetArchive</a>

Mark T. Tomczak(Personal observation, not a "way things should be" thought):Surprised to learn of myself that of all the reasons AI crawling of the web should be concerning, "It stops redirecting traffic to the host sites" isn't one of them. To me, anyway.The "old web" that I hear people sometimes pine for was a place that people were putting stuff online with no expectation of financial remuneration. People put stuff online so it was online. The idea that it could end up re-indexed somewhere else was... Yes please we'd like that info easier to find actually?There are other issues with AI answers (personally: I want the back-link to the source because I shouldn't trust random ideas spewed at me by an AI agent any more than I trust random ideas from an anonymous Redditor, and pedigree and source citation helps there). To the extent that they divorce site maintainers from their ad revenue... That's not an AI problem, that's a "There are no stable models for capturing revenue off of infinitely-copyable information in capitalism" problem. There's not as much moral daylight between AI scrapers bypassing robots.txt and IP blockers and lying about their user-agent... and Aaron Swartz smuggling a server into a secure network to scrape a paid academic archive... as I think some people want to believe.<a href="https://mastodon.fixermark.com/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fixermark.com/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#copyright</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fixermark.com/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalism</a>

Jonathan BaileyJake Holmes settles with Jimmy Page over Dazed and Confused, a sculptor sues the New Orleans Pelicans, and a fight over Disney pickle baseball team is settled.<a href="https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/08/04/3-count-pickle-platter/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/08/04/3-count-pickle-platter/</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LedZeppelin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LedZeppelin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Disney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disney</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NewOrleansPelicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewOrleansPelicans</a>

Michael MarekThis is a long read, but it goes into detail about the complexities of intellectual property in the age of AI image creation...And the fears that Disney has about losing control of its characters.<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/IntelectualProperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IntelectualProperty</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Disney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disney</a><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/is-it-still-disney-magic-if-it-s-ai/ar-AA1JQfAr" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/is-it-still-disney-magic-if-it-s-ai/ar-AA1JQfAr</a>

Glyn MoodyRevisiting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#copyright</a> infringement in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> inputs and outputs - <a href="https://www.technollama.co.uk/revisiting-copyright-infringement-in-ai-inputs-and-outputs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.technollama.co.uk/revisiting-copyright-infringement-in-ai-inputs-and-outputs</a> "most of the litigation has been taking place in the input phase. But I think that going forward we are going to see more action with outputs" yup

Robin PhillipsWeekly News: 4th August 2025Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:<ul><li>Elizabeth Spann Craig explains why and how to create a <a href="https://elizabethspanncraig.com/tools-for-writers/creating-a-personal-style-guide-your-writing-blueprint/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">personal style guide</a>.</li><li>TikTok is adding <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/715798/tiktok-videos-footnotes-crowdsourced-fact-checks-launch" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">crowdsourced fact checking</a> for users in the USA.</li><li>LinkedIn says it will not take action against <a href="https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/linkedin-removes-transgender-hate-speech-protections/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">transphobic posts</a>.</li><li>Facebook’s filters can be very <a href="https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/07/28/how-facebook-censors-copyright-news/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">overzealous</a>.</li><li>Written Word Media have launched a podcast covering the <a href="https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/press-release-written-word-media-launches-new-podcast-to-help-authors-navigate-the-business-of-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">business of being an author</a>.</li><li>How to build a <a href="https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-loyal-readers/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">loyal following</a> of readers (podcast with transcript).</li><li>The differences between <a href="https://janefriedman.com/author-promotion-versus-book-promotion-why-you-need-both/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">author promotion and book promotion</a>, and why you need to do both.</li></ul><a href="https://authorhelp.uk/consultation/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Book a FREE consultation</a> to find out how we can help you publish your book.<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://authorhelp.uk/tag/copyright/" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://authorhelp.uk/tag/marketing/" target="_blank">#marketing</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://authorhelp.uk/tag/socialmedia/" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://authorhelp.uk/tag/writing/" target="_blank">#Writing</a>

Mac4EverApple attaque en justice... Apple Cinemas ! Mais pourquoi donc ? <a href="https://mac4ever.com/191032" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mac4ever.com/191032</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mac4Ever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mac4Ever</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AppleCinemas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AppleCinemas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AppleTVPlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AppleTVPlus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPTO</a>

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