The News/Media Alliance filed its amicus brief in the multi-district litigation in which over a dozen news publishers have sued OpenAI and Microsoft for using their content without permission to train AI systems and power real-time AI answers.
Today the News/Media Alliance, the largest news media trade association representing over 2,000 newspaper, magazine, and digital media publishers in the United States, delivered a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding the company withdraw its revised Commercial Terms of Use before they take effect on October 30.
A group of 63 international media organizations led by the News/Media Alliance delivered a letter to senior Australian politicians asking them to reject proposed changes to the country’s copyright laws that would allow artificial intelligence companies to use copyrighted material in training their models.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore just issued an Executive Order “Directing State Media and Advertising Procurement Spending to Maryland News Organizations,” which requires Maryland state agencies to prioritize local news organizations when structuring advertising procurements.
“Meta’s new commercial terms of use are outrageous and probably illegal.”
On October 9, the News/Media Alliance filed comments with the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in response to a further consultation on the CMA’s proposed User Choice conduct requirement to address Google’s Strategic Market Status in general search.
California Governor Newsom signed into law SB 690, a bill that would amend the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) to provide relief for news publishers targeted by unreasonable lawsuits based on the current text of the law.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2222, the Community Newsroom Employment and Workforce Sustainability Act, or “Community NEWS Act,” into law.
The News/Media Alliance submitted comments on September 25 in response to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) August 19 request for comments on its Proposed Enforcement Policy Statement Regarding Personalized Pricing.
NMA joined two amicus briefs this month, led by RCFP, in two separate appeals brought by the NYT in NYT v. Dep’t of Defense in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
