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GEMA sues OpenAI in Germany for copyright infringement
From GEMA’s press release: On November 13, 2024, GEMA therefore filed a lawsuit with the Munich Regional Court to enforce its members’ claims against the American parent company, OpenAI, LLC, and against OpenAI Ireland Ltd., the chatbot’s operator in Europe. The lawsuit‘s subject is the chatbot’s unlicensed reproduction of song lyrics. When simple prompts are Read more
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Elon Musk adds Microsoft to suit against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and antitrust claims
Elon Musk, who once was a big investor in OpenAI in its early formation, has filed a first amended complaint against the company, its founder Sam Altman, and Gregory Bockman, which now has added Microsoft as a defendant and antitrust claims for alleged efforts by OpenAI to discourage funders from backing “actively trying to eliminate Read more
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Register of Copyrights Perlmutter testifies about fair use and AI before Senate Comm. on Oversight
The Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter testified before the Senate Committee on Oversight. She previewed what the Copyright Office’s Report will cover about the question whether training AI models with copyrighted works without licenses from the copyright owners is fair use. We’ve excerpted below the exchanges bearing on fair use, although most of the first Read more
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OpenAI cites dismissal of DMCA 1202 claim in Raw Story to support its motion to dismiss Daily News, the Intercept
Citing Judge McMahon’s dismissal of Raw Story Media’s DMCA Section 1202 claims for lack of a cognizable injury under Article III of the Constitution, OpenAI submitted a letter of supplemental authority in support of its motion to dismiss the DMCA claims in the lawsuits brought respectively by Daily News and the Intercept. Aaron Moss, the Read more
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Judge Lee sets hearing on preliminary injunction in music publishers’ lawsuit v. Anthropic: Nov. 25, 2024, 1:30 pm San Jose
Save the date: Judge Eumi Lee “sets the in-person hearing as to 179 Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction and 205 Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss for 11/25/2024 at 01:30 PM in San Jose, Courtroom 7, 4th Floor before Judge Eumi K Lee. The court will hear argument only (no witness testimony). Plaintiffs’ motion is here. Anthropic’s Read more
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Updated Map of Copyright Lawsuits v. AI Companies (Nov. 9, 2024)
We updated our Map of Copyright & Related Lawsuits against AI companies with clickable links to the court dockets in each case. The lawsuits are clustered on each coast. Nothing in between. If our count is right, there are 35 copyright related lawsuits against AI companies (or, in the case of Alcon v. Tesla, entities Read more