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Judge Lee sets Zoom hearing for Dec. 19, 1 pm PDT in Concord Music v. Stability AI over motion to dismiss
Read more: Judge Lee sets Zoom hearing for Dec. 19, 1 pm PDT in Concord Music v. Stability AI over motion to dismissJudge Eumi Lee has scheduled a Zoom hearing for Dec. 19, 1 pm PDT. Presumably, this hearing is for Stability AI’s motion to dismiss, which had to be rescheduled due to the argument on Concord Music’s motion for preliminary injunction lasting 4 hours. The notice doesn’t specify which motion, but that seems like the likely…
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Millette files First Am. Complaint v. Google, NVIDIA adding copyright claim. AI cases hit 38 in U.S.
Read more: Millette files First Am. Complaint v. Google, NVIDIA adding copyright claim. AI cases hit 38 in U.S.David Millette filed 3 separate lawsuits basically for alleged scraping of YouTube videos to train the AI models of 3 different companies: OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA. At first, the lawsuits were based on state law claims only — presumably because the plaintiff did not have registrations for the copyrights to his videos at the time.…
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Photobucket sued to stop use of user photos in deals w/ AI and biometric companies. Asserts 11 claims including DMCA 1202(b)(1), (3).
Read more: Photobucket sued to stop use of user photos in deals w/ AI and biometric companies. Asserts 11 claims including DMCA 1202(b)(1), (3).An interesting new lawsuit filed in the District of Colorado. Mac Pierce and other users of Photobucket. The Complaint alleges: “Photobucket is threatening to sell Plaintiffs’ images to third parties who can use them to create biometric facial recognition databases that intrude on Plaintiffs’ privacy by identifying them wherever they go. Additionally, Photobucket hopes to…
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Art Appreciation Testing Instrument
Read more: Art Appreciation Testing InstrumentThis is the testing instrument we used in a behavioral experiment to test people’s perceptions of AI-generated works in terms of merit and in terms of substantial similarity We discussed the results of this research in The AI Penalty: Is There a Bias Against AI-Generated Works?, forthcoming in the Michigan State Law Review (a link…
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Parties file Joint Statement of Undisputed Facts in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence
Read more: Parties file Joint Statement of Undisputed Facts in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS IntelligenceThe parties in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence filed the public version of the Joint Statement of the Uncontested Facts that was contained in the Proposed Joint Pretrial Order filed back in July. The attachment is now available below. It’s unclear why this is being filed now.
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Scholarship: AI and the Sound of Music, published in Yale Law Journal Forum
Read more: Scholarship: AI and the Sound of Music, published in Yale Law Journal ForumI am happy to share that my essay “AI and the Sound of Music” is now published in the Yale Law Journal Forum. You can download a PDF in this link: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/ai-and-the-sound-of-music A brief abstract is copied below:
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Elevens Labs files motion to transfer case to SDNY, brief filed under seal
Read more: Elevens Labs files motion to transfer case to SDNY, brief filed under sealEleven Labs filed a motion to transfer the case from Delaware to the Southern District of New York, with its brief filed under seal.