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Every AI partnership is a merger now: UK CMA investigating last year’s Google-Anthropic deal
Read more: Every AI partnership is a merger now: UK CMA investigating last year’s Google-Anthropic dealThe UK Competition & Markets Authority has launched a Phase 1 merger inquiry into last year’s deal between Google and Anthropic.
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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 § 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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