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New York Times replies to OpenAI’s motion to dismiss in testy exchange
Read more: New York Times replies to OpenAI’s motion to dismiss in testy exchangeThe New York Times swung back at OpenAI, which had accused the newspaper of hiring someone to “hack” ChatGPT to generated the examples of regurgitation used for the complaint NYT filed against OpenAI. The New York Times blasted OpenAI right from the get-go: Lacking any real grounds for dismissal, OpenAI devotes much of its filing…
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AI milestone: copyright lawsuits hit 20 w/ O’Nan v. Databricks, Mosaic ML. Joseph Saveri Law firm raises its total to 7 AI lawsuits.
Read more: AI milestone: copyright lawsuits hit 20 w/ O’Nan v. Databricks, Mosaic ML. Joseph Saveri Law firm raises its total to 7 AI lawsuits.It was bound to happen. The copyright lawsuits against AI companies has reached 20. Book authors Stewart O’Nan, Abdi Nazemian, and Brian Keene have sued MosaicML and Databricks for the former’s alleged direct infringement based on its unauthorized use of their books to train its LLM. Databricks acquired MosaicML in July 2023 and is sued…
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Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI (Mar. 12, 2024)
Read more: Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI (Mar. 12, 2024)Here’s the latest status report of the copyright lawsuits against AI companies as of March 12, 2024. We have a new lawsuit against Nvidia brought by three book authors in Abdi Nazemian v. NVIDIA Corp. That brings the total lawsuits filed to 19, 18 of which are pending (Huckabee’s lawsuit was voluntary dismissed by stipulation).…
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Book authors sue NVIDIA for alleged AI copyright infringement (Complaint)
Read more: Book authors sue NVIDIA for alleged AI copyright infringement (Complaint)The Joseph R. Saveri is back at it again, this time bringing a proposed class action lawsuit against GPU chipmaker NVIDIA for allegedly infringing the copyrights of book authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O’Nan as a part of NVIDIA’s use of a book dataset that included their writings to train NVIDIA’s NeMo AI model.…
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OpenAI continues to litigate in court of public opinion, refuting Elon Musk lawsuit
Read more: OpenAI continues to litigate in court of public opinion, refuting Elon Musk lawsuitOpenAI has continued to litigate in the court of public opinion. It first did so in responding to the New York Times copyright lawsuit in a blog post asserting that the NYT exploited a “rare bug” to regurgitate NYT articles potentially in violation of OpenAI’s terms of use. Later, in its motion to dismiss, OpenAI…
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Lawsuit alleging AI v. copyright termination right, Hill v. MGM (Complaint)
Read more: Lawsuit alleging AI v. copyright termination right, Hill v. MGM (Complaint)In a Complaint that reads like a law school exam question, the author R. Lance Hill, aka Davide Henry Lee, who wrote the screenplay to the movie Roadhouse in 1986, MGM for its making of a sequel to the movie Roadhouse, starring Patrick Swayze in 1988. Hill alleges that he exercised his termination right under…
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OpenAI: Elon Musk’s “suit may stem from Elon’s regrets about not being involved with the company today”
Read more: OpenAI: Elon Musk’s “suit may stem from Elon’s regrets about not being involved with the company today”As first reported by CNBC, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon sent an internal memo to employees defending the company and suggesting that Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI “may stem from Elon’s regrets about not being involved with the company today.” Musk was one of the first funders and a co-founder of OpenAI back in…
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Judge Martínez-Olguín rejects Plaintiffs’ motion in California case to enjoin OpenAI from defending different lawsuit in New York
Read more: Judge Martínez-Olguín rejects Plaintiffs’ motion in California case to enjoin OpenAI from defending different lawsuit in New YorkThe Joseph Saveri Law Firm, representing the book author plaintiffs in In re ChatGPT Litigation in the Northern District of California, filed a curious motion to enjoin OpenAI from defending itself in the different case, Authors Guild v. OpenAI, filed in the Southern District of New York. The Joseph Saveri Law Firm appeared to be…
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Elon Musk v. Sam Altman, OpenAI Complaint (PDF). OpenAI sued 4 times in 2 days.
Read more: Elon Musk v. Sam Altman, OpenAI Complaint (PDF). OpenAI sued 4 times in 2 days.On February 29, 2024, two new lawsuits were filed against OpenAI, bringing the total of new lawsuits against OpenAI to 4 lawsuits in just two days, including the two new copyright suits. The most high profile lawsuit is the one brought by Elon Musk against Sam Altman and OpenAI. Musk was one of the initial…
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The Ultraman problem: China court rules AI company liable for infringing images of superhero
Read more: The Ultraman problem: China court rules AI company liable for infringing images of superheroAs reported by the Global Times, the Guangzhou Internet Court has ruled that an AI company that provided a text-to-image generator to paid subscribers was liable for copyright infringement based on the generation of the comic character Ultraman or similar figures. The AI generated images violated the reproduction and adaptation rights of the author. The…