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Plaintiffs’ firm floods docket with 5th near identical copyright suit v. Meta on behalf of book authors. 292 authors total.
Read more: Plaintiffs’ firm floods docket with 5th near identical copyright suit v. Meta on behalf of book authors. 292 authors total.The same plaintiffs’ firms, Stris & Maher and Freedman Normand, filed their 5th near identical copyright suit on behalf of book authors against Meta. Since we used grand slam to describe the 4 prior lawsuits, we’ve run out of metaphors to describe this one, Levine v. Meta..Maybe 5-bagger? 5 AI copyright lawsuits filed on the…
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Plaintiffs’ firm hits copyright lawsuit grand slam, filing 4 near identical suits v. Meta on the same day on behalf of 231 book authors
Read more: Plaintiffs’ firm hits copyright lawsuit grand slam, filing 4 near identical suits v. Meta on the same day on behalf of 231 book authorsRobert Sheard et al. v. Meta and Tosca Reno et al v. Meta just became the 3rd and 4th copyright suit filed by Stris & Maher and Freedman Normand law firms against Meta today. The 4 lawsuits are near identical in allegations and claims, and they all involve book authors as plaintiffs. It’s hard to…
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Historic moment: Copyright suits v. AI Cos. hits 150. Older v. Meta, another book author suit filed on same day as Winspear v. Meta.
Read more: Historic moment: Copyright suits v. AI Cos. hits 150. Older v. Meta, another book author suit filed on same day as Winspear v. Meta.In a suit nearly identical to the just filedWinspear v. Meta, 57 book authors, including lead plaintiff Daniel Jose Older, filed suit against Meta today, alleging the same theories of copyright liability. Both Winspear and Older will likely be assigned to Judge Chhabria, who presides over all the book authors and publisher cases against Meta.…
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Book authors Jacqueline Winspear et al. sue Meta for both LlaMa and new Muse models. Infringement alleged not only for torrenting but also for scanning physical books in Project Vellum
Read more: Book authors Jacqueline Winspear et al. sue Meta for both LlaMa and new Muse models. Infringement alleged not only for torrenting but also for scanning physical books in Project VellumBook author Jacqueline Winspear, the creator of the popular Maisie Dobbs series, along with 59 other book authors, wasted no time in suing Meta not only for its old LlaMa models but also for its new Muse models. What’s different about this lawsuit is that, on top of alleging infringement in the torrenting of digital…
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Anthropic sets up Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. 5% of Anthropic shares donated to fund to benefit public. With donation by Anthropic founders & employees = 20% shares to fund. Should Anthropic gift some of its IPO shares to Americans?
Read more: Anthropic sets up Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. 5% of Anthropic shares donated to fund to benefit public. With donation by Anthropic founders & employees = 20% shares to fund. Should Anthropic gift some of its IPO shares to Americans?True to its public benefit corporation mission, Anthropic just announced it is establishing the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund to invest in causes that serve the public. Here are the key details quoted from Anthropic’s announcement: Elon musk applauds the idea but recommends Sending shares directly to americans Elon Musk tweeted support for Anthropic’s idea, but…
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How Apple went to war on OpenAI and made peace with Meta
Read more: How Apple went to war on OpenAI and made peace with Metaapple wwdc24 event announcing partnership with openai On June 10, 2024, at the WWDC24 event, Apple previewed its new Apple Intelligence for its then-upcoming iOS 18. At the time, Apple was late to the generative AI scene and was desperately trying to upgrade an aging Siri. (That full upgrade of Siri with AI eventually took…
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Kevin Kelly, NYT Bestselling book author, founding executive editor of Wired magazine, files proposed Amicus Brief in support of OpenAI’s fair use
Read more: Kevin Kelly, NYT Bestselling book author, founding executive editor of Wired magazine, files proposed Amicus Brief in support of OpenAI’s fair useIn the OpenAI MDL litigation, the New York Times bestselling book author and founding executive editor of Wired, Kevin Kelly, just filed a proposed amicus brief vigorously defending fair use in OpenAI’s training of its models. This is the first amicus brief Kelly has filed in any of the AI cases. The brief was filed…
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Alexandr Wang gave Meta its mojo back with launch of Muse, Muse Wonder
Read more: Alexandr Wang gave Meta its mojo back with launch of Muse, Muse WonderOne year in the AI industry feels like a decade. Yet, incredibly, Mark Zuckerberg managed to pull off what could turn out be one of the most incredible pivots in tech company history. He tried that once already with the metaverse and failed. But, after a widely panned launch of its then-latest LlaMa model, Zuckerberg…
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Concord Music, Anthropic interpret differently 9th Circuit’s DMCA CMI decision in Doe 1 v. Github
Read more: Concord Music, Anthropic interpret differently 9th Circuit’s DMCA CMI decision in Doe 1 v. GithubConcord Music and Anthropic not surprisingly interpret differently Doe I v. Github the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision on Section 1202 of the DMCA, which involves the removal of CMI (copyright management information). For the opinion, visit below: Concord Music view: Anthropic view:
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Stability AI, DeviantArt, Runway AI each file motions to dismiss EVOX Productions’ claims
Read more: Stability AI, DeviantArt, Runway AI each file motions to dismiss EVOX Productions’ claimsIn EVOX Productions v. Stability AI, the 3 defendants, Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Runway AI filed separate motions to dismiss EVOX’s claims. Some of the recent motions to dismiss filed in this and other cases do appear to raise some plausible grounds for dismissal. It will be interesting to see, for example, whether any of…