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Elon Musk: By time copyright lawsuits are decided, we’ll have a digital god. [Video]

Elon Musk was interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin yesterday. One interesting exchange was over the copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Here’s what Musk said: Elon Musk: I don’t know except to say that, by the time these lawsuits are decided, we’ll have a digital god. We’ll have a digital god at that point. These lawsuits…
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OpenAI Sam Altman defends training AI to learn from copyrighted works, but open to compensation to artists

In a fascinating interview before the OpenAI Board brouhaha, Sam Altman discussed the controversy over training AI models on copyrighted works without permission of the authors and artists. Kevin Roose: Sam, I want to ask you about something else that people are not happy about when it comes to these language uh and image models…
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The motions to dismiss claims in AI copyright suits

We compiled all the motions to dismiss that have been filed (as of November 11, 2023) in the copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Google motion to dismiss claims in J.L. v. Google (filed 10/16/23) Meta motion to dismiss claims in Kadrey v. Meta Platforms (filed 9/18/23) [Judge Chhabria intends to grant] OpenAI motion to dismiss…
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Comment of Professor Edward Lee to Artificial Intelligence Study by The United States Copyright Office

Comment of Prof. Edward Lee to U.S. Copyright Office regarding the copyrightability of AI generated works. Download the Comment here. Abstract This Comment was submitted to the Copyright Office in its study of artificial intelligence to answer the questions related to the copyrightability of AI generated works. The Copyright Office should return to the first…
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Judge Orrick rejects “21st century collage tool” theory of Sarah Anderson’s lawsuit v. AI text to image generators

Judge Orrick’s order dismissing, with leave to the defendants to amend their complaint, rejected the theory of the plaintiffs Sarah Anderson et al. that all of DeviantArt’s Output Images are infringing derivative works because DeviantArt’s AI program was allegedly trained on copyrighted images. Sarah Anderson’s theory of collage tool: “The resulting image is necessarily a…
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The Copyright Office’s approach to AI is wrong. Here’s why.

At long last, I have posted a preprint draft of my article Prompting Progress: Authorship in the Age of AI, 76 Fla. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024). You can download it from SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4609687 The Article explains why the Copyright Office’s recent guidance and position denying the copyrightability of AI generated works is wrong. It follows…
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Does Italian Supreme Court’s copyright decision for “floral fractal” image signal approach to authorship of AI generated works? (RAI v. Biancheri PDF)

In RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana S.P.A. vs. Biancheri, the Italian Court of Cassation affirmed the lower courts’ decisions upholding a copyright infringement claim for the protection of a computer-generated image of a floral fractal, which repeats the same shapes to generate the design of what resembles a flower. The image titled “The Scent of the Night”…
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US Copyright Offie notice of inquiry re: AI and copyright (NOI pdf)

The Copyright Office issued a notice of inquiry regarding many (excellent) questions related to copyright and AI, from copyrightability to infringement. Easy to read version of Copyright Office NOI on AI Federal Register version of Copyright Office NOI on AI Deadlines to submit to Copyright Office Wednesday, October 18, 2023: Initial written comments are due…
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Farhad Manjoo’s more positive take on generative AI

In an opinion piece for the New York Times, columnist Farhad Manjoo has a more positive take on generative AI. Manjoo doesn’t think generative AI will displace human creators, at least not to the extent feared: “Indeed, I’d bet that artists and creative industries will ultimately find A.I. to be more of a boon than…
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Autonomously generated AI works aren’t copyrightable, court rules in Thaler v. Perlmutter

Judge Beryl A. Howell agreed with the Copyright Office’s ruling that the autonomously generated AI work “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” does not satisfy the requirement of human authorship, required for a work to qualify for copyright in the United States under the Copyright Act. The work was created by Stephen Thaler’s Creativity Machine, and…
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