✨ Shutterstock CFO Rik Powell steps up for interim CEO role as Hennessy steps down – ‘effective immediately’
Just two weeks on from the news that the Shutterstock merger with Getty Images was abandoned the Shutterstock Chief Executive Officer Paul Hennessy has stepped down from his role and from the company board of directors – ‘effective immediately’ – in
✨ AI is watching you
Meta has abruptly taken down a new feature that allowed people to use its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to make fake images from user content on Instagram.
Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash
✨ Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act
Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
✨ Meta introduces an AI detection tool for images and videos created with Muse Image
The web-based feature, Muse Images, can detect invisible digital watermarks embedded in AI-generated content, allowing users to determine whether an image was produced with Meta AI. However, Muse Images can only read Meta's proprietary identifier Content Seal, It cannot read Google's Synth ID or C2PA credentials.
Meta introduces an AI detection tool for images and videos created with Muse Image - Tech Edition
✨ Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
The gradual erosion of search traffic in recent years has, paradoxically, given publishers more agency to consider walking away from the platform.
Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
✨ New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
Both The New York Times and The Daily News claim that OpenAI has lied about its ability to search customer chat logs and training datasets for copyrighted works belonging to the two newspapers. This is the latest development in the two-year legal battle between the AI firm and The Times, which alleges that OpenAI violated copyright law by using its content to train generative AI models and reproduce that journalism in user outputs.
New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial | TechCrunch
✨ Dutch Publishers Introduce New AI Licensing Platform
A coalition of book publishers in the Netherlands has launched Bookpact.ai, a new platform allowing publishers, with authors' consent, to structure, control, and be fairly compensated for the use of books by AI companies.
Dutch Publishers Introduce New AI Licensing Platform – International Publishers Association
✨ European LLM respecting copyright : GPT-NL and Apertus
GPT-NL respects copyright - cui bono? - Part 1 | Kluwer Copyright Blog
✨ Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
German court rules that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn't apply to AI overviews.
✨ Europe Wants to Be Less Reliant on American Tech. Here’s Why.
Europe Wants to Be Less Reliant on American Tech. Here’s Why.
✨ The New(s) Value Gap: Why Publishers Aren't Getting More Licenses From AI Companies
(The New(s) Value Gap: Why Publishers Aren't Getting More Licenses From AI Companies | LinkedIn
✨ How Can We Save Journalism in the Age of AI?
In this speech at the Media World Congress in Marseille on 1st June, A. G. Sulzberger, president of The New York Times, argues that if left unchecked, the rise of generative AI poses a major threat to journalism, the creative industries and, ultimately, democracy.
Sulzberger does not oppose AI itself. In fact, he believes that AI could bring enormous benefits, and that news organisations should embrace it responsibly. However, he is concerned that leading AI companies have built their systems using vast amounts of copyrighted content, including journalism, without permission or fair compensation.
Translation in French by "Le grand Continent"
Comment sauver le journalisme au temps de l’IA ? | Le Grand Continent
✨ Google regulation crackdown in UK over AI use of publisher content
In a world first, UK regulators today told Google to give publishers control over how their content is surfaced in AI answers.
Google faces regulation crackdown in UK over AI use of content
✨ Out-of-Commerce works : the 20th century blackhole
Out-of-commerce works: the 20th century black hole is not closing
✨ Making it easier to understand how content was created and edited
Google just announced SynthID Detector, a tool designed to identify AI-generated content through invisible watermarks embedded into media.
Tools to understand how content was created and edited
✨ AI-generated papers flood submissions to scientific journals
arXiv, the largest host of pre-peer-reviewed scientific papers, will now ban scientists for a year if their research contains hallucinated references or other obviously AI-generated content.
AI-generated papers flood submissions to scientific journals
✨ The Digital Media Leadership Alliance
The DMLA – The Digital Media Licensing Association who are now to be known as the Digital Media Leadership Alliance.
DMLA change - now: Digital Media Leadership Alliance - Photoarchivenews
✨ Shutterstock to pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations
✨ Canon Introduces C2PA—Compliant Authenticity Imaging System for News Organizations
New solution supports image provenance management at the point of capture, based on international C2PA standards
Canon Introduces C2PA—Compliant Authenticity Imaging System for News Organizations | Canon Global
✨ South Korea Arrests Man for a Fake AI Wolf Photo That Raised Alarms
South Korean police arrested a man Thursday for posting an AI-generated photo of an escaped wolf—an image convincing enough to fool city officials and trigger an emergency alert to thousands of residents. According to police, the stunt delayed the ca
✨ Adobe Stock just launched AI Studio which combines the great content in Stock with Ai powered tools to perfect it. Find something that's almost right? Use Ai Studio as a launchpad and make it exactly what you need.
Change Mood — adjust lighting, tone, and atmosphere in one click
Change Color — match brand palettes or hex codes across images and video
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Try it: stock.adobe.com/ai-studio
✨ AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history
AP says it will offer buyouts, part of pivot from newspaper-focused history | AP News
✨ EU staff banned from using AI-generated content in official communications
It’s a stark contrast to the approach taken in Washington, where U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently used AI-generated content to get his point across.
EU staff banned from using AI-generated content in official communications – POLITICO
✨ BRIA belongs to the most innovative companies in 2026
The Most Innovative Companies in enterprise for 2026 - Fast Company
✨ Open AI is closing video app SORA
Open AI is closing video app SORA as too expensive to run. Deal with Disney announced in December does not come to a close.
OpenAI shutters video app Sora as company reels in costs
✨ He Tried to Stop Adobe From Training its AI on His Photo Library – He Lost
"...when I found out that Adobe had fed our entire library into their AI training pipeline without asking, without a separate license, without any compensation — it was devastating,” Carter says. “They didn’t just use a few images. They ingested our content and used it to build products that now directly compete with us. Adobe’s AI can now generate the same kind of diverse imagery that we spent years and significant resources creating. They took our competitive advantage and turned it into their feature.
... The contract I signed gave Adobe a license to use my images for ‘developing new features and services [to promote my work],’ Carter says.
But while he assumed that wording was there for Adobe to improve its platform, the company assumed otherwise.
“Adobe’s argument? The word ‘new’ means they can do anything new. Anything. Including something that didn’t exist when I signed the contract. Including AI training. Including building a tool that directly competes with the very content I licensed to them,” Carter says."
🔗 He Tried to Stop Adobe From Training its AI on His Photo Library - He Lost | PetaPixel
✨ Manipulated photos discovered in reports on Iran
"Der SPIEGEL has removed several images from its coverage of Iran and from a number of other articles. This is due to doubts about their authenticity.The images reached numerous media outlets via the network of photo agencies. All the images in question come from the same agency. Images from this one source appear in publications across virtually all major media outlets: *Zeit*, *Süddeutsche Zeitung*, WDR, *Stern*, Deutschlandfunk, Deutsche Welle, *Welt*, *taz* and *B.Z.*.
🔗 Medien: Manipulierte Fotos in Berichten zu Iran entdeckt - DER SPIEGEL
✨ "Flash response", an experiment between QWANT and French newspapers
An agreement have been signed by Qwant with several newspapers, including Groupe EBRA titles such as L'Est Républicain, L'Equipe, Les Echos and Le Parisien, as well as Ouest-France, Le Figaro and television channels including BFMTV and France Médias Monde (France 24).
The experiment involves a feature of the European search engine called 'Flash Response', which provides an AI-generated summary similar to Google AI Overviews (not available in France).
The initiative aims to measure 'the value created by AI in search'. Advertising revenue generated by this format will be shared between Qwant and the participating media outlets. However, don't expect a windfall for the media outlets involved. After all, the search engine accounts for only 2% of queries in France.
🔗 IA : le moteur de recherche Qwant s'associe à des médias français | Les Echos
✨ AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
"The country’s highest judicial court won’t reconsider a decision that determined AI-created art is ineligible for copyright protection." For the moment, the law is still protective of human authorship.
🔗AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule | The Verge
✨ Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
✨ The Department of Justice gives clearance to the Getty-Shutterstock merger
The merger between Shutterstock and Getty Images have got clearance from the US DOJ (Department of Justice).
However, "les carottes ne sont pas cuites", game is not up !
Clearance from the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is still necessary. The CMA had expressed concern that the merger could dampen competition in the news market.
✨ UK regulator finds competition concerns in Getty-Shutterstock merger
Feb 19 (Reuters) - Britain's competition watchdog said on Thursday it provisionally found concerns over UK editorial content supply in the proposed merger between U.S.-based Getty Images (GETY.N), opens new tab and rival Shutterstock (SSTK.N), opens new tab, but cleared the deal in the global stock content market.
Both companies said they disagreed with the Competition and Markets Authority's provisional finding on editorial content and plan to file responses by the March 12 deadline, while continuing to work with the U.S. Department of Justice on its ongoing review of the deal.
🔗 UK regulator finds competition concerns in Getty-Shutterstock merger | Reuters
✨ Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online
Microsoft : A new proposal calls on social media and AI companies to adopt strict verification, but Microsoft hasn’t committed to following its own recommendations.
Quote: "Horvitz [The company’s chief scientific officer,] declined to commit to Microsoft using its own recommendation across its platforms. The company sits at the center of a giant AI content ecosystem: It runs Copilot, which can generate images and text; it operates Azure, the cloud service through which customers can access OpenAI and other major AI models; it owns LinkedIn, one of the world’s largest professional platforms; and it holds a significant stake in OpenAI. But when asked about in-house implementation, Horvitz said in a statement, “Product groups and leaders across the company were involved in this study to inform product road maps and infrastructure, and our engineering teams are taking action on the report’s findings.”
🔗 Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online | MIT Technology Review
✨ European Parliament Proposes Changes to Copyright Protection in the Age of Generative AI
This overview of the Voss Report, voted in January in the JURI committee of the EU Parliament, is provided by the law firm Covington
✨ Google hit by European publishers' complaint to EU over AI Overviews
Publishers' claim : "It is about stopping a dominant gatekeeper from using its market power to take publishers' content without consent, without fair compensation, and without giving publishers any realistic way to protect their journalism," EPC chairman Christian Van T
Google: "These inaccurate claims are an attempt to hold back helpful new AI features that Europeans want. We design our AI features to surface great content across the web and we provide easy-to-use controls for them to manage their content," a Google spokes
🔗 Google hit by European publishers' complaint to EU over AI Overviews | Reuters
✨ EU invests over €307 million into artificial intelligence and related technologies
On 15th January, the European Union has launched two calls under the ‘Digital, Industry and Space’ cluster of the Horizon Europe Work Programme, allocating €307.3 million to bolster Europe’s digital innovation and competitiveness.
✨ Cloudflare Strengthens Content Offering to AI Companies with Acquisition of Human Native
Acquisition will help create a new business model for the Internet by transforming original content into high-quality, AI-ready data and facilitating transparent value exchange in the AI era
🔗 Cloudflare Strengthens Content Offering to AI Companies with Acquisition of Human Native
✨ The Truth About Europe’s Regulation of Digital Platforms
US President Donald Trump claims that Europeans are engaging in "censorship" when they require digital platforms to be transparent about their algorithms and to remove already illegal content. With the US recently barring entry to five Europeans it a
✨ FranceTV signs news broadcasts using C2PA
IPTC member France Télévisions has started signing its daily news broadcasts using C2PA and FranceTV’s C2PA certificate, which is on the IPTC Origin Verified News Publisher List.
🔗 FranceTV signs news broadcasts using C2PA - IPTC
How it looks may be viewed here:
🔗 Franceinfo - Actualités en temps réel et info en direct
✨ The Danish Press Publications’ Collective Management Organisation DPCMO Partners with Cloudflare in Denmark
Today (4th December) the Danish Press Publications’ Collective Management Organisation DPCMO announced a Letter of Intent with Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company. This industry-wide collaboration centers on how to create a more secure, transparent, and permission-driven framework for content access and use. Cloudflare and DPCMO share a commitment to a free, open, secure, and transparent Internet. Both organizations believe that publishers and IP owners deserve clear control,
🔗 DPCMO Partners with Cloudflare in Denmark – DPCMO
✨ Commission opens antitrust investigation into Meta's new policy regarding AI providers' access to WhatsApp
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Meta's new policy on artificial intelligence (‘AI') providers' access to WhatsApp may breach EU competition rules.
🔗 Commission opens antitrust investigation into Meta's new policy
✨ Why the Getty-Shutterstock Merger Is Really About Who Controls “Real”
🔗 Why the Getty-Shutterstock Merger Is Really About Who Controls "Real" - Kaptur