3 Count: Plundered Booty

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1: EU Parliament Report Endorses Compulsory Copyright Licensing for AI Training

First off today, Competition Policy International reports that a study commissioned by the EU Parliament’s Policy Department for Justice, Civil Liberties and Institutional Affairs calls for a compulsory licensing regime for AI training.

According to the report, relying on voluntary licenses would create high clearance costs and make licensing content unfeasible for AI companies. Instead, they propose a compulsory licensing system with rates set by the government and royalties collected by a central organization.

Though the report was against a voluntary licensing scheme, it was also against creating an exemption for AI training under copyright law. It said that it would reduce incentives for future human-created works and that a compulsory licensing scheme would establish a balance.

2: Photographer Seeks Rs 18 Crore Damages From Zee, Says It Used His Cheetah Visuals Without Permission

Next up today, Scroll.in reports that, in India, photographer and videographer Ronny Sen has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Zee News and its parent company, Zee Media Corporation.

According to Sen, the company passed off video he captured as its own and aired footage he took without a license. He claims that, due to this, he lost other opportunities to license the footage and suffered financially for the infringement.

Sen is seeking Rs 18 crore ($2 million) in damages for the alleged infringement. Zee has not commented on the lawsuit.

3: IPTV Pirate’s Bitcoin Booty Sold at Auction for Just Over $1 Million

Finally, today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that a Swedish man, convicted of operating a pirate IPTV service in the country, had his cryptocurrency cache sold at auction, netting more than $1 million for the Swedish government.

The unidentified man was indicted in 2023 and convicted in 2024 for his part in operating Viking IPTV. Although a pirate IPTV service, the person collected subscription fees via PayPal and cryptocurrency. When he was indicted, the government seized 12.7 Bitcoin from his wallets, an amount worth approximately $1.193 million.

The Swedish government has auctioned off that Bitcoin and raised over $1 million in the process. As for the man, he was given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay daily fines. The details of the sentence are not known.

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