3 Count: Walking Away

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1: After Cox Ruling, Record Labels Offer to Walk Away From Grande Piracy Case – but Clash With ISP Over $4m in Bond Costs

First off today, Mandy Dalugdug at Music Business Worldwide reports that the major record labels have offered to walk away from its ongoing legal battle with Grande Communications, though a dispute remains over $4 million in bond costs that the ISP incurred.

The labels sued Grande alleging that the ISP did not take adequate action to prevent copyright infringement on its network. The labels initially won a $46.8 million judgment against Grande but the Supreme Court, in a a separate case, ruled that ISPs like Grande are not liable for copyright infringement on their networks.

As such, both sides are unwinding the case but Grande is seeking payment of the $4 million bond costs it incurred when it was forced to post a bond for the judgment in order to appeal the decision.

2: AI-Assisted Music Now Eligible for Copyright Registration in South Korea

Next up today, Tammy Park at The Korea Herald reports that the Korea Music Content Association (KOMCA) has announced that musicians can now register songs developed using artificial intelligence (AI), even if they had a “substantial” role in the development of the song.

Currently, music wholly generated by AI is not eligible for registration. However, even if AI had a leading role in writing the music, lyrics or other elements of the song, it can be registered.

Applicants will have to specify what AI tools were used and how. The KOMCA may request additional information or materials to confirm those statements. Works registered as human-generated but later found to have been generated by AI will be removed from the royalty pool.

3: Broadcaster Wins Broad U.S. Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don’t Exist Yet

Finally today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that a United States federal court has issued a broad anti-piracy injunction against a variety of intermediaries in order to block access to infringing content that has not yet been created or released.

The injunction comes at the request of TelevisaUnivision, a Mexican broadcaster. Initially, the case targeted a series of IPTV streaming operations, which TelevisaUnivision claimed were infringing on its copyright. However, now the scope of the injunction has expanded to include future pirate services that don’t currently exist.

The injunction targets a variety of intermediaries including Cloudflare, GitHub, a Mexican bank, other hosting providers and domain registrars. The injunction will remain in place until the end of the case, which began in early June.

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