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1: ‘Moana 2’ Sparks Copyright Lawsuit As Animator Revives Idea Theft Claims

First, today, Winston Cho at The Hollywood Reporter Esquire reports that animator Buck Woodall has filed a lawsuit against Disney, claiming that the company infringed on elements of his screenplay when creating the Moana series of films.

According to Woodall, he drafted the screenplay for an animated film called Bucky set in a Polynesian village. He claims to have provided the screenplay and trailer to several people connected with Disney and Dreamworks and that they had expressed interest in his film.

In November, a court dismissed Woodall’s claim against the original Moana film. According to the court, he had waited too long to file the case. However, the release of Moana 2 has given him a new opportunity to file the lawsuit.

2: Travis Scott, SZA, Future Sued for Alleged Copyright Infringement Over 2023 Hit ‘Telekinesis’

Next up today, Murray Stassen at Music Business Worldwide reports that RocNation-signed artist Victory Boyd has filed a lawsuit against Travis Scoot, SZA and Future over their song Telekinesis.

According to Boyd, Telekinesis infringes her earlier song LIke the Way it Sounds. She further claims that fellow artist Kanye West had planned on using the song but decided not to after playing it for Travis Scott, who began using it as a basis for Telekinesis.

Boyd is listed as one of the track’s co-authors. However, she claims that the song directly infringes on her work. West is not named as a defendant in the case.

3: Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

Finally today, Kate Knibbs at Wired reports that an unredacted document from an AI case filed against Meta indicates that the company used Library Genesis, a so-called “shadow library,” to train its AI systems.

The case, Kadrey et al. v. Meta Platforms, was one of the first lawsuits over AI training to be filed. It pits authors against Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The authors allege that Meta committed copyright infringement by using their content, including pirated materials, to train AI systems.

This release proves the last point, indicating that Meta’s systems were trained on unlicensed copies of books. It is unclear what, if any, impact this will have on the case. However, Meta said they were using publicly available data and didn’t actively seek out pirated content.

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