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Everything the desk has filed on copyright.
Google Gemini’s news summaries could trigger EU copyright penalties — and force licensing deals with publishers — after a top EU legal adviser warned the chatbot risks copying protected journalistic expression, not just facts.
Anthropic has updated Claude Opus 5.5 to block direct cloning of copyrighted video games, adding two sentences to Claude Code’s system prompt. The move is voluntary, unannounced, and already live globally.
Claude Code now blocks developers from recreating games—even for clients who own the physical or intellectual rights—according to multiple reports filed on its public GitHub tracker since late October.
Getty Images is going private through a prepackaged Chapter 11 process, with $533M in new capital from the Getty family and Koch Inc., as AI disruption and $2.1B in debt force a reset.