Sony controversies

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• Clarification — Suno

  Suno spokesperson Rachel Racusen later confirmed to The Verge that data includes “creations” from users, saying, “v6 was trained on content licensed from our partners, interactions including creations and preference signals from our community, and the accumulated learnings from our team,”

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• In its complaint shared with The Verge , Sony and UMG accuse Suno of “model laundering,” saying:

• The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it's trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music ripped from YouTube and other sources.

• Sony further alleges that Suno used distillation to train v6.

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• Clarification — Sony

  Sony has updated the store page for Horizon Forbidden West on the PlayStation Store after reports on unclear pricing surfaced last week in a number of publications.

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• Sony has updated the store page for Horizon Forbidden West on the PlayStation Store after reports on unclear pricing surfaced last week in a number of publications.

• So, despite the slight adjustments to the store page, Sony is still hoodwinking consumers who don't know any better.

• Even with the change, the page is still unclear.

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• Apology — Sony

  對於日期的選擇而造成的誤解和困擾深感抱歉

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• 日本知名跨國企業「索尼」於前些時候宣布將在7月7日發布新產品，不料這個日期瞬間讓對岸小粉紅們群起崩潰，因為讓他們想起了84年前的「七七事變（盧溝橋事變）」。

• 爾後，索尼官方微博發布了道歉聲明，表示對於中國網民的關切高度重視，對於日期的選擇而造成的誤解和困擾深感抱歉，已經在第一時間取消。

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• The Chinese unit of Sony Group Corp. has been fined 1 million yuan ($155,400) after its Japanese parent planned to release new products on the anniversary of the start of the Sino-Japanese War, according to Chinese authorities.

• 北京市朝陽區市場監督管理局對當事人罰款100萬元。

• 結果被北京市朝陽區市場監督管理局罰款100萬元（人民幣，以下同），處罰日期為10月12日。

Company response

• Investigation — Sony

  “We always take complaints seriously and investigate properly and thoroughly,” Sony spokesperson Rosemary Flynn Smith told CNN Business via email.

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• Hill and her attorney filed her lawsuit against Sony on Thursday in the Superior Court of California in San Diego before providing a copy of the complaint to CNN Business.

• A former Sony Electronics employee is suing the company and several individuals, accusing her former boss of sabotaging her career and making racist, verbally abusive comments.

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• The plaintiff, Decatur Licensing, said in the filing that Sony’s Xperia smartphone, and other products infringe upon patents that it holds due to the device’s use oif the 5G cell network standard.

• Tech giant Sony was sued by Decatur Licensing in the Southern District of New York Tuesday for patent infringement.

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• A Sony Playstation user has sued the company over its alleged digital monopoly, saying that it allows Sony to charge supra-competitive prices for digital PlayStation games, the media reported.

• Lawyers claimed that “Sony’s 2019 decision to stop PlayStation users from buying third-party download codes is violating antitrust and unfair competition laws”.

• The suit seeking a class-action lawsuit has been filed in a court in California, reports The Verge.

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• The plaintiff claimed that shutter failures often occur outside of the one-year warranty, purportedly causing purchasers to pay $500-$650 for shutter repairs or replacements in addition to the $2,000 it cost to purchase the camera in the first place.

• On Friday, a consumer filed a class-action complaint in the Southern District of New York against Sony Electronics Inc. for the purported shutter defects on the a7iii camera, the “‘vanguard of the mirrorless camera movement’” and for allegedly denying warranty claims in violation of various laws.

• A consumer by the name of John Guerriero has filed a class-action suit against Sony Electronics Inc. in the Southern District of New York over claims that the shutter in the Sony A7 III is not fit for purpose, resulting in much-shortened life expectancies than expected.

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• The Joseph Saveri Law Firm filed a class action antitrust lawsuit on Friday, May 7, in federal court in California against Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC and its parent, Sony Group Corporation, on behalf of users of Sony's wildly popular PlayStation video game console.

• The complaint alleges that in the run-up to the release of the PS5 Digital Edition, Sony decided to prohibit retailers and game developers from selling digital download codes for PlayStation video games.

Company response

• Apology — Sony

  Sony has apologised for PS5 pre-orders being a bit of a mess which caused many gamers to miss out on securing a console.

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• Now, Sony has apologised for the issue and says it will be releasing more stock in the coming days.

• Over the next few days, we will release more PS5 consoles for preorder - retailers will share more details.

• Sony has apologised for PS5 pre-orders being a bit of a mess which caused many gamers to miss out on securing a console.

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• Following a lost case against the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe has been ordered to pay a fine of $3.5 million AU (about $2.4 million USD) by the Australian Federal Court. The core issue concerned the corporation’s PlayStation Store refund policy misleading consumers about their Australian Consumer Law (ACL) rights.

• The Australian Federal Court also found that Sony Europe defied the ACL when informing one of the four customers that it could only offer a refund if authorized by the game developer.

• Sony Interactive Entertainment Network Europe has been fined $3.5million (£2.8m) by an Australian court after refusing to refund customers who are believed to have purchased faulty digital products.

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• 其他被告公司也包括亞馬遜、華碩 (2357-TW)、LG、微軟 (MSFT-US)、索尼、以及三星。

• 美國國際貿易委員會 (ITC) 表示，將針對蘋果 (AAPL-US)、亞馬遜 (AMZN-US) 等製造的觸控螢幕設備是否涉及專利侵權行為進行調查。

• 該公司聲稱蘋果等公司侵犯了 Neodron 擁有的電容式鍵盤和傳感器相關的四項專利