Author: Olivia Sophie Rafferty
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First appeal filed in German music copyright infringement case against OpenAI: panel not too likely to refer to European Court of Justice
OpenAI has challenged an injunction granted against it by the Munich I Regional Court last month, in an AI copyright infringement case brought by German music rights collecting society GEMA.
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‘That is theft, it’s pure theft’: an interview with Susman Godfrey AI lawyer Justin Nelson, co-lead counsel in $1.5B Anthropic matter
Susman Godfrey’s Justin Nelson, first-chair trial counsel for a class of copyright holders in a $1.5 billion action against Claude AI maker Anthropic, sat down with ai fray to discuss his work on the settlement, how authors can find out if they are a member of the class, and the impending future of AI litigation.
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German xAI/Grok injunction poses fundamental legal threat to all AI chatbots in Germany: liability for falsehoods
A preliminary injunction against Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok for spreading “falsehoods” could make it very difficult for AI chatbots to operate in Germany, given their level of hallucination.
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‘AI companies, you are not above the law’: Anthropic’s $1.5B proposed book author copyright settlement receives industry-wide support
A slew of declarations have been filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, urging the court to accept a proposed motion for settlement between Anthropic and a class of authors worth over $1.5 billion.
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Japanese media add to globe’s AI copyright infringement docket: Nikkei, Asahi Shimbun sue Perplexity AI over “free riding” in Tokyo District Court
Nikkei Inc. and The Asahi Shimbun Company are seeking an injunction against Perplexity AI, alleging that its GenAI-powered search engine unlawfully copies and stores articles from their websites, infringing copyright.
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AI patent-eligibility: spotting hallucinations over value-adds
While AI is accelerating discovery, designing software, and shaping new chemical compounds, some industry voices question whether we have become too dependent on it to invent, and how the pitfalls of that over-dependence are being materialized.