3 Count: Destiny’s Jury

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1: Copyright Infringement? Jury to Decide Over Landmark Destiny 2 ‘Cheating’ Suit

First off today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that a lawsuit filed by video game developer Bungie against the makers of various game cheating systems is heading to a jury.

Two years ago, Bungie filed the lawsuit against AimJunkies.com, alleging that they were developing and selling cheating software for Bungie games, including Destiny 2. They alleged, among other things, that the cheats were a copyright infringement because they violated rules against circumventing digital rights management tools.

An arbiter recently awarded $3.6 million in damages to Bungie for this reason. However, that decision is being appealed and a district court in Seattle is expected to hear the case, as well as AimJunkies.com ‘s counterclaim, next week.

2: Swiss Digital Licensing Org Targets Twitter for Copyright Infringement

Next up today, Robert Levine at Billboard reports that, in Germany, the music rights organization SUISA has filed a lawsuit against X (formerly Twitter) claiming that the site has not sought licenses for music streamed on the platform and has also ignored takedown notices.

SUISA, as an agency, manages both public performance and mechanical rights for a large number of songs. They say that they attempted to get in touch with X to try and negotiate a licensing agreement, but the attempts were unproductive.

The lawsuit represents the latest in a series of music industry lawsuits against X. In the United States in June, a group of music publishers filed a case with similar allegations. To date, X does not appear to have secured licenses for any of the music at issue.

3: Government to Establish Copyright & AI Reference Group to Help Protect Creative Industries

Finally today, Tom Fogden at B&T reports that the Australian government has announced that it is introducing a copyright and AI reference group that will have the aim of helping content creators and addressing other threats caused by AI.

The group is meant to complement other government initiatives on the subject, this includes work being led by the Minister for Industry and Science. However, this group’s main focus will be on the content used to train AI systems, with an aim to address both how AI models are trained and how they are used.

They also intend to look at questions surrounding AI, including when AI companies need to seek permission from rightsholders to use their work and whether works generated by AI qualify for copyright protection.

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