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In cases filed by Darius H. James, Together Computer, Cerebras may raise issue whether training AI models with copyrighted works in academic research is fair use
Read more: In cases filed by Darius H. James, Together Computer, Cerebras may raise issue whether training AI models with copyrighted works in academic research is fair useBook author Darius H. James filed 3 copyright lawuits against 3 different defendants: Together Computer, Cerebras Systems, and Snowflake. In their respective Joint Case Management Statements, both Together Computer and Cerebras Systems may have just raised an important legal question: Is training AI models with copyrighted works in academic research a fair use? Here’s the…
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Publication: Fair Use and the Origin of AI Training
Read more: Publication: Fair Use and the Origin of AI TrainingHot off the presses, now published in the Houston Law Review: My article on “Fair Use and the Origin of AI Training,” 63 Hou. L. Rev. 105 (2025). You can download the PDF by going here and clicking “Save article as” in the center. Excerpt: Related Stories:
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Scholarship: Copyright Dilution Under Constitutional Scrutiny
Read more: Scholarship: Copyright Dilution Under Constitutional ScrutinyHappy to share my latest scholarship. Copyright Dilution Under Constitutional Scrutiny examines the curious (putative) doctrine of copyright dilution that copyright stakeholders are advancing in their lawsuits against AI companies. This is a new doctrine being developed on the fly. It is also unconstitutional. This Essay explains why. Download the preprint version on SSRN. The…
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Scholarship: How courts should treat AI models’ memorization of some content from training datasets
Read more: Scholarship: How courts should treat AI models’ memorization of some content from training datasetsAI researchers are studying the phenomenon that AI models unintentionally memorize some of the content from the training datasets. Unintentional Memorization of Some Training Content A recent paper “How much do language models memorize” by researchers from Meta, Google DeepMind, Cornell, and NVIDIA (John X. Morris, Chawin Sitawarin, Chuan Guo, Narine Kokhlikyan, G. Edward Suh,…
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My paper on “Fair Use and the Origin of AI Training.” Or why the Copyright Office Report is wrong about fair use and why courts should reject its view.
Read more: My paper on “Fair Use and the Origin of AI Training.” Or why the Copyright Office Report is wrong about fair use and why courts should reject its view.I am happy to share my latest law review article, “Fair Use and the Origin of AI Training,” forthcoming in Houston Law Review in the fall. Download a preprint copy of my paper at SSRN by following this link. Main points in my article, “fair use and the origin of ai training” The origin of…
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Art Appreciation Testing Instrument
Read more: Art Appreciation Testing InstrumentThis is the testing instrument we used in a behavioral experiment to test people’s perceptions of AI-generated works in terms of merit and in terms of substantial similarity We discussed the results of this research in The AI Penalty: Is There a Bias Against AI-Generated Works?, forthcoming in the Michigan State Law Review (a link…
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Scholarship: AI and the Sound of Music, published in Yale Law Journal Forum
Read more: Scholarship: AI and the Sound of Music, published in Yale Law Journal ForumI am happy to share that my essay “AI and the Sound of Music” is now published in the Yale Law Journal Forum. You can download a PDF in this link: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/ai-and-the-sound-of-music A brief abstract is copied below: