Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for copyright infringement

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Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney for damages over alleged copyright infringement, claiming the AI startup "brazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if it were its own." The entertainment giant claimed in its lawsuit that Midjourney generated "countless" infringing images and videos of its copyrighted characters, such as Superman, Scooby-Doo, Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, and more.

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US court won't force Google to sell Chrome, Android

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A US court ruled that Google won't be required to sell its Chrome browser and Android operating system, but will need to share information with competitors. US District Judge Amit Mehta rejected the Department of Justice's request to break up Google through the sale of Chrome and Android. However, the decision bars the tech giant from having exclusive deals, positioning itself as the default search engine on its products, including Android and Chrome, along with third parties like Apple.

Before the ruling, it was revealed that Google paid companies billions of dollars to exclusively pre-load and promote its products. While they can't enter exclusive contracts, Google can still pay other companies to pre-load their products on different devices, noting it would cause "downstream harm" to cut off payments completely. Revenue-sharing deals will be limited to one-year periods.

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‘No Man’s Sky’ settles legal issue with Sky TV over its name

In case you forgot, once upon a time Microsoft OneDrive was called SkyDrive. Why did they change the name? Well, a UK television broadcaster, Sky TV, apparently owns the word “sky” and won a court battle against Microsoft back in 2014. Indie game No Man’s Sky almost had to change its name for the same reason. Its developer Hello Games has been engaged in a three-year legal battle with the TV broadcaster but it seems the issue has finally been settled. Hello Games’s founder Sean Murray shared the news on Twitter without going into detail about the deal. We can’t say either if this is the reason why the game got delayed for another two months and is coming out on August 9^th.

Source: SlashGear

Apple CEO Tim Cook addresses ongoing battle with FBI over encryption

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Apple CEO Tim Cook started off its SE event without shying away from a hot topic. He addressed the ongoing legal battle the company has with the FBI, which is trying to extract information from an iPhone owned by one of the accused shooters of 2015’s San Bernardino attack. Cook says he owes it to their customers to protect their privacy and data. The first legal hearing of the case will happen tomorrow afternoon in a Central California District court.

Cook said during the press event, “We did not expect to be in this position at odds with our own government. We believe strongly that we have a responsibility to help you protect your data and protect your privacy. We owe it to our customers, and we owe it to our country. This is an issue that impacts all of us, and we will not shrink from this responsibility.”

Source: The Verge + ABC News