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Scholarship: How should courts weigh AI companies’ use of shadow libraries of “pirated” books?
Read more: Scholarship: How should courts weigh AI companies’ use of shadow libraries of “pirated” books?One of the most controversial aspects in the copyright lawsuits against AI companies is how courts should weigh the companies’ use of controversial “shadow libraries” consisting of unauthorized or “pirated” copies of books others have compiled and made available online. These shadow libraries have provoked condemnation from book authors and a fair amount of media…
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Copyright lawsuits v. AI cos. hits 24 total. Cafferty Clobes firm files Dubus v. Nvidia and Makkai v. Databricks. (Complaints PDFs)
Read more: Copyright lawsuits v. AI cos. hits 24 total. Cafferty Clobes firm files Dubus v. Nvidia and Makkai v. Databricks. (Complaints PDFs)On May 2, 2024, the law firm of Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel filed two new copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Both are proposed class actions in the Northern District of California. Dubus III v. Nvidia: Authors of books allege their books were used without permission in training Nvidia’s AI model NeMo based on the…