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Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI (Dec. 29, 2023)
Read more: Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI (Dec. 29, 2023)We added the New York Times v. Microsoft, OpenAI case to our status report for all pending copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Every other case did not have material changes. Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI Cos. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc.…
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New York Times sues Microsoft, OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement (download Complaint & Exhibit J)
Read more: New York Times sues Microsoft, OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement (download Complaint & Exhibit J)The New York Times filed a copyright lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against Microsoft and OpenAI alleging copyright infringement (direct and secondary infringement based on vicarious and contributory infringement), misappropriation, and trademark dilution. The Complaint seeks the following relief: 1. Awarding The Times statutory damages, compensatory damages, restitution, disgorgement, and any other…
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Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI
Read more: Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AIAs 2023 comes to a close, we checked in to see where all the 14 copyright lawsuits against AI companies stand. Below is a summary: Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI Cos. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. D. Del. Bibas Trial on…
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Copyright Office denies copyright to AI stylized work based on photograph by Anki Sahni
Read more: Copyright Office denies copyright to AI stylized work based on photograph by Anki SahniOn Dec. 11, 2024, the U.S. Copyright Office published its decision denying the copyright ability, for lack of human authorship, a work titled Suryast that Anki Sahni stylized using the RAGHAV Artificial Intelligence Painting App. The rejection of copyright follows the Office’s rejections of copyright to AI prompt-engineered visual works by Jason Allen and Kristina…
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Elon Musk: By time copyright lawsuits are decided, we’ll have a digital god. [Video]
Read more: 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
Read more: OpenAI Sam Altman defends training AI to learn from copyrighted works, but open to compensation to artistsIn 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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Comment of Professor Edward Lee to Artificial Intelligence Study by The United States Copyright Office
Read more: Comment of Professor Edward Lee to Artificial Intelligence Study by The United States Copyright OfficeComment 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
Read more: Judge Orrick rejects “21st century collage tool” theory of Sarah Anderson’s lawsuit v. AI text to image generatorsJudge 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.
Read more: 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…