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Anthropic moves to dismiss John Carreyrou’s lawsuit filed by 5 authors who opted out of the Bartz class settlement
Anthropic wasted no time in moving to dismiss author John Carreyrou’s copyright complaint. The lawsuit was filed by 5 book authors (a sixth dropped out) who opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic class settlement. Intriguing is Anthropic’s argument that John Carreyrou’s Complaint fails to allege his book(s) were contained in the dataset (Books3) Anthropic Read more
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English translation of Munich Local Court rejetion of authorship in prompt-engineered logos. Court leaves open door for authorship in other prompt-engineered works made with human creative influence or personality
The Munich Local Court ruled against authorship under German copyright law for three logos generated by a person using AI using prompts. But the Court left open the door for authorship in other works where the human has made sufficient creative influence over the output manifesting the personality of the author: “Copyright protection is therefore Read more
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Judge Lin gets assigned Concord Music v. Anthropic II for now. Other new cases assigned.
Some of the recent AI copyright lawsuits have been assigned. They are listed below. 1. Judge Rita F. Lin was assigned Concord Music Group v. Anthropic II. But there’s a pending motion for Judge Eumi Lee to consider relating the case to Concord Music v. Anthropic I. If Judge Lee does so, the second case Read more
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OpenAI strikes again: hires Peter Steinberger who created OpenClaw aka Moltbot for autonomous AI agents
Sam Altman announced OpenAI’s hiring of Peter Steinberger over the weekend. Steinberger’s OpenClaw open-source project for autonomous AI agents has already cause quite a stir. Steinberger was recently interviewed by Lex Friedman. OpenClaw was a nonprofit project. Steinberger himself was donating $10K to $20K a month to the project. Steinberger, then still on his own, Read more
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Hollywood studios roiled by Seedance AI video pitting Brad Pitt v. Tom Cruise
Similar to what happened when Midjourney released its new video generator that enabled users to create videos with Hollywood studios’ animated characters, the video generator Seedance, owned by Chinese-based Bytedance, has roiled Hollywood studios. The AI-generated video that caused the greatest uproar was one pitting Brad Pitt against Tom Cruise: Disney swiftly sent a cease-and-desist Read more
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Is OpenAI the Gorgon as Elon Musk’s Complaint v. Sam Altman alleges?
It’s not every day that the opening line of a lawsuit complaint includes a reference to the Gorgons, the Greek mythology monster of three sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snakes on their heads. Leave it to Elon Musk to make the analogy between the Gorgons and OpenAI: Never before has a corporation gone from Read more