Author: Florian Mueller
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Biggest non-U.S. AI copyright lawsuit filed in IP litigation hotspot Munich by German collecting society GEMA against OpenAI
German collecting society GEMA is suing OpenAI over the alleged infringement of its members’ copyrights in song lyrics. The chosen venue, Munich, is famous for strict IP enforcement.
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Another DMCA claim against Generative AI struggling: removal of copyright management information not deemed to constitute injury
DMCA claims against AI systems continue to struggle to gain traction as a federal judge in New York threw out a complaint that failed to allege the dissemination of material from which copyright management information had been removed.
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AI startups want to be protected by regulation, but also against overregulation: observations on a16z-Microsoft statement
A joint statement by venture investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith
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Hungarian competition authority GVH sees huge opportunities in AI, raises concerns over lack of support of “minor” languages
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has published a report on AI that takes a rather positive view of the opportunities created by AI, but raises concerns about the lack of support of languages spoken by smaller numbers of people.
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Every AI partnership is a merger now: UK CMA investigating last year’s Google-Anthropic deal
The 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
While 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
Judge 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)
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
The software licensing-related part of the UK CMA’s cloud market investigation appears to lack a numerical basis to prove adverse effects on competition.