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Etsy has quietly updated its terms of service, expanding its own rights to use seller and buyer content for AI training while simultaneously locking out third-party platforms from doing the same. It's a move that puts Etsy in control of how its marketplace data fuels future AI tools, leaving creators with little say in the matter.
On the legal front, rights holders for Elvis Presley and some of Eminem's most recognizable records are now suing AI music company Suno, claiming it generates music and lyrics that unlawfully mimic those artists. The Elvis suit specifically invokes Tennessee's Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act, a law tailor-made for exactly this kind of dispute.
And in a story about who actually controls the web, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic have agreed to honor a new cross-company robots dot txt standard that lets publishers opt out of AI training scraping. The catch is significant though — it defaults to allowing training, carries no enforcement mechanism, and does nothing for content already collected.
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