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Supreme Court ruling may enable New York Times to seek copyright damages going back to GPT-2 and GPT-3, but is unrelated to merits
Read more: Supreme Court ruling may enable New York Times to seek copyright damages going back to GPT-2 and GPT-3, but is unrelated to meritsThe New York Times’s lawyers have notified the judge presiding over their copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI of a Supreme Court ruling that may help hem defend the damages period they proposed.
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Millions in the hand or billions in the bush: will negotiation, litigation or legislation give the best answer to the AI copyright question?
Read more: Millions in the hand or billions in the bush: will negotiation, litigation or legislation give the best answer to the AI copyright question?Some media companies, most recently the Financial Times, enter into license agreements with AI providers while others, such as the New York Times, seek billions in damages. Time will tell who it goes.
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Microsoft and OpenAI seek safeguards against New York Times’ reporting being influenced by lawyers’ access to confidential litigation documents
Read more: Microsoft and OpenAI seek safeguards against New York Times’ reporting being influenced by lawyers’ access to confidential litigation documentsThe NYT surprisingly refuses to promise in writing that in-house lawyers with access to highly confidential information from Microsoft and OpenAI won’t use that information to influence reporting on the case and on the defendants.
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Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Mercury News and others sue OpenAI and Microsoft — will likely be be consolidated with NYT case
Read more: Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Mercury News and others sue OpenAI and Microsoft — will likely be be consolidated with NYT caseA group of publishers including, among others, the Chicago Tribune and San Jose Mercury News, filed a copyright lawsuit agianst Microsoft and OpenAI in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday.
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UK competition authority CMA launches triad of AI investigations: Microsoft-Mistral, Microsoft-Inflection, Amazon-Anthropic
Read more: UK competition authority CMA launches triad of AI investigations: Microsoft-Mistral, Microsoft-Inflection, Amazon-AnthropicThe UK Competition & Markets Authority has launched inquiries into Microsoft’s partnership with French AI company Mistral, its recruitment of former Inflection employees, and Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic.
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UK regulator’s update paper on AI Foundation Models: understandable fears, but unsupported by evidence
Read more: UK regulator’s update paper on AI Foundation Models: understandable fears, but unsupported by evidenceWhile the CMA’s general concerns over dynamics previously seen in technology markets are legitimate, the update paper, on top of generally recognizing the enormous benefits of AI innovation, summarizes trends that could also be interpreted as signs of fierce competition among large technology corporations that creates opportunities for newcomers.
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The mutually beneficial relationship between AI and standards: a bird’s-eye view
Read more: The mutually beneficial relationship between AI and standards: a bird’s-eye viewThis article refers to some recent news such as U.S. cooperation agreements with European partners and Google’s new membership in the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), but primarily it is meant to provide a timeless overview and to be referenced in future standards-related contexts. Policy makers around the globe have started to make rules for…
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Court filing in OpenAI case reflects NYT’s fundamental problem with copyright law: facts are free for the taking
Read more: Court filing in OpenAI case reflects NYT’s fundamental problem with copyright law: facts are free for the takingThe New York Times has filed its opposition brief to OpenAI’s motion to dismiss certain parts of the NYT’s copyright infringement lawsuit.