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Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI (Feb. 29 , 2024)

Here’s the latest status report of the copyright lawsuits against AI companies as of Feb. 29, 2024. Highlights of this week: Also, please visit our Master List of all cases, which we just reorganized by juridisctions. Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI Cos. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH…
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OpenAI sued again, now by The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet. (Complaints)

The copyright lawsuits keep coming. This time, the Internet news sites Raw Story, AlterNet, and The Intercept have sued OpenAI in two lawsuits in the Southern District of New York. (First reported by The Daily Beast.) Very surprisingly, the two complaints allege only claims for removal of copyright management information under Section 1202 of the…
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Must reads: Timothy Lee, Grimmelmann, Sag on AI lawsuits; Samuelson on remedies, destruction of AI models

For those of you following the 16 copyright lawsuits against AI companies, including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta, plus several AI text-to-image generators, three very insightful articles were recently published by some of the leading copyright experts in the field. Timothy B. Lee and James Grimmelmann wrote an article in ars technica, provocatively titled: Why…
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Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI (Feb. 18 , 2024)

Here’s the latest status report of the U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies as of Feb. 18, 2024. The biggest development was Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin’s granting in part OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the vicarious infringement claims, Section 1202 copyright management information claims, and some state law claims. Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI Cos.…
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Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin grants in part OpenAI’s motion to dismiss Paul Tremblay’s and Sarah Silverman’s vicarious copyright claims, removal of CMI claims

OpenAI scored a partial victory in the copyright lawsuits against it brought by book authors Paul Tremblay, Sarah Silverman, and other authors seeking a class action. Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ruled that the plaintiffs had failed to allege specific facts to meet the requirements of vicarious copyright infringement, or the claims for removal of copyright management…
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Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI (Feb. 9 , 2024)

Here’s the latest status report of the U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies. 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 the copyright issues will begin on August 26, 2024, at 9:00 a.m.…
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George Carlin’s estate sues creators of purported AI generated video impersonating late comedian (PDF)

The complaints keep coming against allegedly AI generated works. This brings the total number of copyright-related lawsuits against AI companies to 17, 2 of which have been consolidated. This one involves the estate of George Carlin, the late comedian, brought against a group–Dudesy LLC, Will Sasso, Chad Kultgen–who created a video impersonating Carlin in a…
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Status of all U.S. copyright cases v. AI cos. (Jan. 23, 2024), including MTD decision in Doe 1 v. Github by Judge Tigar

Here’s the update for the status in all the copyright cases in the United States against AI companies. The biggest development: Judge Tigar’s partial grant of the motion to dismiss of Github and Microsoft in Doe 1 v. Github. A big win for Microsoft. Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI Cos. Case name Jurisdiction…
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New AI lawsuit: Julian Sancton v. OpenAI, Microsoft

In the Southern District of New York, the author Julian Sancton filed a proposed copyright class action against OpenAI, its subsidiaries, and Microsoft. The Complaint is below: Using ChatGPT, we created a Table summarizing the 2 counts in the Complaint. Sancton v. OpenAI: Counts, Specific Allegations, and Named Defendants Count Specific Allegations Named Defendants Count…
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Judge Chhabria dismisses most of Kadrey’s claims v. Meta in AI lawsuit

As Judge Chhabria indicated two weeks ago at a hearing in Kadrey v. Meta, he dismissed all of Kadrey’s claims except the copyright claim alleging infringement based on the Meta’s training of its large language model LLaMA. We asked ChatGPT to summarize the court’s order and it did a decent job. We made some minor…
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