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Senators introduce NO FAKES bill to prohibit unauthorized AI deepfakes, or digital replicas
Read more: Senators introduce NO FAKES bill to prohibit unauthorized AI deepfakes, or digital replicasThe Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act of 2024, known as the NO FAKES Act, was introduced in Congress. The bill is intended “to protect the voice and visual likenesses of creators and individuals from the proliferation of digital replicas created without their consent.” Nature of the Right – The bill provides individuals with a new federal…
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Copyright Office recommends Federal Digital Replica Law, Part I of AI Report
Read more: Copyright Office recommends Federal Digital Replica Law, Part I of AI ReportThe Copyright Office just released Part I of its report on AI. In it, the Office recommends that Congress pass new protection against the knowing distribution of unauthorized digital replicas. “I am pleased to begin sharing the results of our comprehensive study of AI and copyright, with this first set of recommendations to Congress. It…
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Status of all 28 copyright suits v. AI (Jul. 23, 2024): ROSS gets chance to identify uncopyrightable headnotes
Read more: Status of all 28 copyright suits v. AI (Jul. 23, 2024): ROSS gets chance to identify uncopyrightable headnotesHere’s the latest status report for all U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Highlights New developments from last week’s report are indicated below with an asterisk*. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. D. Del. Bibas *ORAL ORDER: ORDER Ross to submit a list of all headnotes…
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Judge Bibas gives partial win to ROSS Intelligence: orders them to identify West headnotes that are “verbatim quotations, or vary trivially from verbatim quotations, of judicial opinions”
Read more: Judge Bibas gives partial win to ROSS Intelligence: orders them to identify West headnotes that are “verbatim quotations, or vary trivially from verbatim quotations, of judicial opinions”Judge Bibas issued his ruling on ROSS Intelligence’s request for a filtration hearing. (For background, visit our prior analysis.) Although Judge Bibas didn’t grant the motion, he did allow ROSS Intelligence the opportunity to “submit a list of all headnotes it believes are verbatim quotations, or vary trivially from verbatim quotations, of judicial opinions by…
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Status of all 28 copyright suits v. AI (Jul. 14, 2024)
Read more: Status of all 28 copyright suits v. AI (Jul. 14, 2024)Here is the latest status report for all U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Given the July 4th holiday, the week was quieter. Highlights: New developments from last week’s report are indicated below with an asterisk*. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. D. Del.…
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Thomson Reuters brief argues v. pretrial filtration hearing in AI lawsuit
Read more: Thomson Reuters brief argues v. pretrial filtration hearing in AI lawsuitThomson Reuters filed its brief arguing against ROSS Intelligence’s request that Judge Bibas conduct a pretrial filtration hearing to determine the (lack of) copyrightability of Westlaw’s headnotes and topics that it creates for legal decisions of the courts. In its brief, Thomson Reuters argues that no filtration hearing has ever occurred in the Third Circuit…
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Senators propose COPIED Act – does it supplant the Copyright Act?
Read more: Senators propose COPIED Act – does it supplant the Copyright Act?Senators Cantwell, Blackburn, and Heinrich just introduced a bill cleverly titled the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED ACT). As they summarize: The liability provision in this bill seems to make use and copying of content that includes the requisite content provenance information (contemplated by the bill), to train…
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Download updated Map of Copyright Lawsuits v. AI (July 2024)
Read more: Download updated Map of Copyright Lawsuits v. AI (July 2024)Download our updated map of all 28 copyright lawsuits against AI companies. The PDF below has clickable links to dockets for each case. Notice how the lawsuits are now all on the coasts after the Concord Music v. Anthropic lawsuit was transferred to the N.D. California.
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Judge Tigar dismisses DMCA claims for CMI in Doe 1 v. GitHub, again
Read more: Judge Tigar dismisses DMCA claims for CMI in Doe 1 v. GitHub, againAfter the parties agreed no redactions were necessary, Judge Tigar’s order dismissing the second amended complaint’s(SAC’s) DMCA claims for copyright management information under 1202(b)(1) and (b)(3) is now available. No surprise, Judge Tigar dismissed the claims again (after having dismissed them once before). Applying Ninth Circuit law, Judge Tigar ruled that the DMCA claims for…
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Status of all 27 copyright suits v. AI (Jul. 5, 2024): Huckabee suit revived. Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman to drop out of Meta suit.
Read more: Status of all 27 copyright suits v. AI (Jul. 5, 2024): Huckabee suit revived. Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman to drop out of Meta suit.Here’s the latest status report of all 27 copyright suits–soon to be 28 suits—against AI companies. Even with the July 4th holiday, there was plenty activity. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. D. Del. Bibas *Plaintiffs’ opposition to filtration hearing due on Jul. 5,…