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Is Apple waving the white flag on its own AI for Siri? Tom Gunter leaves Apple and Bloomberg reports Apple in discussions with OpenAI, Anthropic
Read more: Is Apple waving the white flag on its own AI for Siri? Tom Gunter leaves Apple and Bloomberg reports Apple in discussions with OpenAI, AnthropicApple might be waving the white flag on its own AI upgrade for Siri.
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Updated map of US copyright suits v. AI (Jun. 30, 2025)
Read more: Updated map of US copyright suits v. AI (Jun. 30, 2025)Here’s the latest map of all U.S. copyright suits against AI companies. Total: 45. New suits: DOWNLOAD PDF:
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Judge Chhabria grants Meta summary judgment finding no DMCA CMI violation when defendant engaged in fair use, not infringement
Read more: Judge Chhabria grants Meta summary judgment finding no DMCA CMI violation when defendant engaged in fair use, not infringementAs he indicated in his earlier decision on fair use, Judge Chhabria just issued his decision granting Meta summary judgment and finding it did not violate the DMCA CMI provision for intentional removal of CMI, Section 1202(b)(1). Meta acted under fair use, not infringement, and therefore a predicate component of the double scienter of 1202(b)(1)…
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Book authors led by Kai Bird file copyright suit v. Microsoft for its AI model
Read more: Book authors led by Kai Bird file copyright suit v. Microsoft for its AI modelThe copyright lawsuits keep coming. This time, Kai Bird and other book authors sued Microsoft for its training of its own AI model. (The prior lawsuits focused on Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, plus its incorporation of RAG.) This is copyright lawsuit No. 45. This lawsuit is also based on the alleged use of the now…
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Three judges made fair use rulings re: AI training. They appear torn.
Read more: Three judges made fair use rulings re: AI training. They appear torn.With this week’s blockbuster rulings in Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta, we now have decisions by three federal judges on the question whether the use of copyrighted works to train AI models that do not produce allegedly infringing outputs when deployed is a fair use. This is a novel question of law, so…
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OpenAI loses bid to undo order to preserve all user ChatGPT logs, adding to its recent discovery losses.
Read more: OpenAI loses bid to undo order to preserve all user ChatGPT logs, adding to its recent discovery losses.At a hearing yesterday, Judge Sidney Stein ruled against OpenAI in its attempt to overturn Magistrate Judge Ona Wang’s order that OpenAI preserve all ChatGPT user logs due to the New York Times’ motion that suggested some users might be engaging and concealing copyright infringement and generating infringing news articles with ChatGPT. (Maybe this is…
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Comparing Judge Alsup and Judge Chhabria’s fair use decisions in Anthropic, Meta cases
Read more: Comparing Judge Alsup and Judge Chhabria’s fair use decisions in Anthropic, Meta casesBelow we compare and contrast the two decisions in Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta. The key differences are indicated by an asterisk*. Table. Comparison of Judge Alsup’s and Judge Chhabria’s decisions on fair use Fair Use Factor Judge Alsup (Bartz v. Anthropic) Judge Chhabria (Kadrey v. Meta) Is downloading “pirated” books datasets separate…
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Meta prevails on fair use in AI training in Kadrey v. Meta. But Judge Chhabria cautions a better record of dilution or market harm could prevail in other cases.
Read more: Meta prevails on fair use in AI training in Kadrey v. Meta. But Judge Chhabria cautions a better record of dilution or market harm could prevail in other cases.Judge Chhabria just issued his decision granting Meta partial summary judgment on fair use. But Judge Chabbira did so reluctantly, stating that the plaintiffs failed to present sufficient evidence of market dilution but expecting in other cases a better record of market dilution would have a different result. Indeed, on p. 1 of the opinion,…
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Judge Alsup’s Solomonic judgment on fair use in AI training & acquiring pirated books: is it the blueprint for the future of AI training? Part I: Pirated copies
Read more: Judge Alsup’s Solomonic judgment on fair use in AI training & acquiring pirated books: is it the blueprint for the future of AI training? Part I: Pirated copiesJudge William Alsup issued the first decision recognizing that using copyrighted materials to train AI models is a transformative fair use. Although many other cases raise the same question against different AI companies, including Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google, this first decision provides at least one precedent tackling this novel question of law. Ultimately, the…