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German court hands down GenAI copyright ruling: robots.txt must be respected, but data mining by scientific non-profit is cleared
Read more: German court hands down GenAI copyright ruling: robots.txt must be respected, but data mining by scientific non-profit is clearedWhile dozens of U.S. copyright cases over Generative AI are still in the early stages, a German court has handed down a first ruling, applying EU copyright rules.
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Court stays Github AI copyright case to refer central DMCA question to Ninth Circuit: interlocutory appeal
Read more: Court stays Github AI copyright case to refer central DMCA question to Ninth Circuit: interlocutory appealJudge Jon S. Tigar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has granted a motion to let class-action lawyers appeal a specific legal question involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and has stayed the litigation.
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UK CMA clears third AI partnership analyzed as ‘merger’: Amazon-Anthropic (previously Microsoft-Inflection, Microsoft-Mistral)
Read more: UK CMA clears third AI partnership analyzed as ‘merger’: Amazon-Anthropic (previously Microsoft-Inflection, Microsoft-Mistral)A little over five months after launching three AI-related “merger” investigations of commercial partnerships, the CMA has concluded the last one without proceeding to an in-depth investigation. Still, the basis was structurally different in each case.
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Microsoft filing with UK CMA suggests Amazon and Google spend money on regulatory lobbying rather than software license fees
Read more: Microsoft filing with UK CMA suggests Amazon and Google spend money on regulatory lobbying rather than software license feesThe software licensing-related part of the UK CMA’s cloud market investigation appears to lack a numerical basis to prove adverse effects on competition.
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Developer class-action seeks to put Github AI copyright case on hold pending appellate clarification of DMCA
Read more: Developer class-action seeks to put Github AI copyright case on hold pending appellate clarification of DMCAContext: Some of the U.S. copyright infringement lawsuits targeting AI providers like OpenAI involve ยง 1202 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims over the alleged removal of copyright management information (CMI). In the Northern District of California, a judge dismissed those claims in a case against Github, its parent company Microsoft and its AI provider…
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U.S., EU and UK antitrust enforcers issue joint statement underscoring their focus on Generative AI matters
Read more: U.S., EU and UK antitrust enforcers issue joint statement underscoring their focus on Generative AI mattersThe two U.S. antitrust agencies (DOJ and FTC) have signed a joint statement with the European Commission and the UK Competition & Markets Authority that stresses the importance of competition enforcement in connection with Generative AI.
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Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) launched with backing of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, other key players
Read more: Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) launched with backing of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, other key playersUnder the auspices of OASIS, the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) brings a number of major technology companies together to define methodologies for the secure development, deployment and use of AI systems.