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Major publishers expand coalition against uncompensated AI content useThe Standards for Publisher Usage Rights coalition now has more than 80 members across more than 20 countries. The expansion comes as publishers pursue licensing standards and litigation against AI companies over training and commercial reuse of their material.→Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI trainingThe Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that their journalism was used to train AI systems without permission. The complaint argues that AI-generated answers can substitute for visits to publisher sites, threatening advertising and subscription revenues.→Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over alleged music-training piracySony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell named Anthropic, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann in a complaint filed late Friday. The publishers allege Anthropic obtained and used copyrighted musical works at scale without permission; the claims remain allegations.→Australia bans wholly AI-generated tracks from official music chartsARIA said wholly AI-generated tracks will be ineligible for its charts, while AI-assisted recordings can remain eligible when they are substantially human-made. The rules respond to growing concern about synthetic music, unauthorised training data and the effect of generated tracks on artists’ livelihoods.→Amazon is buying and destroying rare books for AI training404 Media reported that Amazon is buying large quantities of rare books, scanning them and destroying them at a Las Vegas facility. Amazon said it purchases books through commercial channels to improve its products and services.→