Independent musicians say their original songs have disappeared from Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming platforms after DistroKid began removing recordings in response to a copyright lawsuit from Universal Music Group, leaving some artists with copyright strikes, frozen royalty payments and little explanation of what they allegedly infringed.DistroKid confirmed that... Read More »
Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and launched a court-supervised sale that could decide the future of its chatbot platform, with Disney making a $20 million opening bid for certain intellectual property rights.Character Technologies filed on October 12, 2026, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware... Read More »
The Justice Department is investigating CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS and NBC for possible antitrust violations after the five major television networks suspended shared coverage of President Donald Trump in protest of his administration's decision to ban three news organizations from the White House. Federal investigators are examining whether the... Read More »
A Chicago police officer who went on to investigate homicides has been identified as the killer of an 8-year-old girl abducted and shot to death while walking to church in 1960. The breakthrough came more than six decades later, after investigators uncovered forensic evidence linking him to the murder.A fingerprint... Read More »
Actress Selma Blair has pleaded not guilty to assault charges after allegedly attacking a police officer and hospital nurse following a disturbance aboard a Delta Air Lines flight in which two flight attendants were injured, while federal authorities separately pursue allegations involving the crew.Blair, 54, appeared in Queens Criminal Court... Read More »
Russell Brand's trial on seven rape and sexual assault-related charges involving six women began Monday in London, where a judge questioned prospective jurors about their exposure to earlier media allegations against the comedian before selecting a panel to hear the case.Brand, 51, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on October 12,... Read More »
Reddit is fighting to prevent its former law firm, Proskauer Rose, from representing Perplexity AI in a federal data-scraping lawsuit, alleging that the firm dropped the social media company to take on its courtroom opponent despite an earlier promise to stay out of the case.In competing filings submitted October 9,... Read More »
FIFA is asking a federal judge in Puerto Rico to throw out an antitrust lawsuit after attorneys representing a now-defunct soccer league failed to pay nearly $24,500 in sanctions over court filings containing 55 defective legal citations that raised suspicions of artificial intelligence misuse.In an October 6, 2026, filing, soccer's... Read More »
USA Today and publishers representing 19 newspapers are seeking more than $250 million from OpenAI and a court order to destroy AI models and training datasets allegedly containing their copyrighted journalism. The lawsuit accuses the company behind ChatGPT of copying hundreds of thousands of news articles without permission to train... Read More »
Federal agents raided Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C., home before dawn on Monday, October 12, 2026, as part of an investigation into possible immigration fraud, just 22 days before the Minnesota congresswoman faces reelection.Agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, executed... Read More »
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