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Judge Stein stays all deadlines in 12 lawsuits v. OpenAI in MDL. Conference set for May 22, 10 AM in New York.
Read more: Judge Stein stays all deadlines in 12 lawsuits v. OpenAI in MDL. Conference set for May 22, 10 AM in New York.Judge Sidney Stein, presiding as the MultiDistrict Litigation court, has stayed all deadlines in the 12 transferred copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft. He has set May 22, 10 AM ET, for the Initial Case Management Conference. To prepare for the conference, he has asked the parties for a single report addressing the appointment of…
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Sam Altman gets defensive when asked about “IP Theft” and Charlie Brown OpenAI generated cartoon.
Read more: Sam Altman gets defensive when asked about “IP Theft” and Charlie Brown OpenAI generated cartoon.TED CEO Chris Anderson interviewed Sam Altman and asked some tough questions about copyright and “IP theft.” Altman seemed to feel a bit of pique when a few audience members clapped in approval of Anderson’s question. A bit uncharacteristic of Altman. Take a listen. Transcript: Anderson: So this impressed me too. I asked it to…
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Updated Map of 40 US copyright suits v. AI companies, with transfer of all suits v. OpenAI to Judge Stein.
Read more: Updated Map of 40 US copyright suits v. AI companies, with transfer of all suits v. OpenAI to Judge Stein.We updated the U.S. map of all copyright cases against AI companies to indicate the transfer of all lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft to Judge Sidney Stein in New York. That means Judge Stein presides over all 12 lawsuits against OpenAI and the 11 against Micosoft (the Millette lawsuit is only against OpenAI). Judge Stein’s…
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Infographic on which AI companies face most copyright lawsuits
Read more: Infographic on which AI companies face most copyright lawsuitsWe created a new infographic to show which AI companies have been sued the most for alleged copyright infringement. Hands down, OpenAI is No. 1 with 15 lawsuits. Second is Microsoft, a partner with OpenAI and sued together with OpenAI in 12 lawsuits. AI companies with most copyright lawsuits (*counting consolidated cases for each lawsuit…
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Thaler v. Perlmutter: D.C. Circuit agrees with Copyright Office: AI autonomously generated work doesn’t qualify as “author” in Copyright Act. Court avoids deciding what level of human contribution does qualify as authorship.
Read more: Thaler v. Perlmutter: D.C. Circuit agrees with Copyright Office: AI autonomously generated work doesn’t qualify as “author” in Copyright Act. Court avoids deciding what level of human contribution does qualify as authorship.In a decision that surprised no one, the D.C. Circuit affirmed the decision of the district court, which upheld the Copyright Office’s denial of the registration for a visual image that Stephen Thaler asserted was created autonomously through his AI called the Creativity Machine. Thaler’s application for registration listed the AI as the sole author.…
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Concord Music wants to cite to Judge Bibas’s rejection of fair use.
Read more: Concord Music wants to cite to Judge Bibas’s rejection of fair use.Less than 24 hours after Judge Bibas’s stunning rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence in training its non-generative AI model, Concord Music publishers want to call it to the attention of Judge Lee in their case. Anthropic opposes the motion for leave. Of course Judge Lee will consider it, although that doesn’t necessarily…
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Judge Bibas rejects fair use defense in AI training; grants summary judgment to Thomson Reuters (PDF)
Read more: Judge Bibas rejects fair use defense in AI training; grants summary judgment to Thomson Reuters (PDF)Judge Bibas rejects fair use defense of ROSS Intelligence and grants summary judgment on infringement (partially) to Thomson Reuters. Stunning change from his prior opinion in 2023. In the prior opinion, Judge Bibas recognized a distinction between transformative intermediate copying to learn how to produce judicial opinion quotes versus copying to recreate Westlaw’s creative drafting: …
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Judge Saylor IV issues scheduling order in UMG Recordings v. Suno
Read more: Judge Saylor IV issues scheduling order in UMG Recordings v. SunoClerk’s Notes for Status Conference held by telephone before Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV: Court will enter the Proposed Stipulated Source Code Protocol 56 . Parties request to amend the Scheduling Order in place and Court grants an additional 42 days. AMENDED SCHEDULING ORDER ENTERED: Written discovery (requests for production of documents, interrogatories and…