Month: March 2025
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OpenAI, Microsoft defeat parts of NYT’s, other news industry plaintiffs’ copyright lawsuits at earliest stage; but summary judgment will be bigger
OpenAI and Microsoft have achieved a partial victory over copyright infringement lawsuits brought by the New York Times and other plaintiffs from the news industry, but the key battle will be summary judgment.
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Music publishers denied preliminary injunction in U.S. copyright infringement suit against Anthropic
The suit is one of a growing number of complaints filed against AI providers for copyright infringement in the music industry.
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French authors, publishers sue Meta in landmark AI copyright suit
The lawsuit is necessary to protect French authors and publishers from AI which “plunders their works and cultural heritage” to train itself, three of the country’s largest author and publisher trade associations have stated.
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European Commission’s third draft of General-Purpose AI Code of Practice: finer KPIs but ‘still risks undermining the EU’s digital competitiveness’
The third and final draft, ahead of expected publication in May, has more specific guidelines on copyright compliance, including text and data mining – but those obligations could “threaten trade secrets”, CCIA Europe has said.
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UK antitrust authority CMA finds OpenAI is indeed not controlled by Microsoft, closes “maybe merger” inquiry after more than a year
The UK’s competition watch dog has finally found that Microsoft indeed has not acquired OpenAI, and therefore closed its merger investigation.
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Musk request for preliminary injunction against OpenAI denied in Northern District of California
Elon Musk, Shivon Zillis and xAI’s attempt to stop OpenAI from converting to a for-profit entity has been denied by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers after the plaintiffs failed to meet their burden of proof. However, the court is prepared to offer an expedited schedule on the “core claims driving their litigation” based on the more…
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UK government’s strategic steer to Competition & Markets Authority: stakeholders have until Thursday morning to comment
Context: The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) told newspaper The Guardian last month that her agency does not always “need to have a seat at the table” when there’s a global competition case. While she does not see tension between the government’s pro-growth agenda and her agency’s competition enforcement, she acknowledged that “where [they]…