Category: AI & Copyright
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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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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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Developer class-action seeks to put Github AI copyright case on hold pending appellate clarification of DMCA
Context: 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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California dismissal of DMCA claim against Github now public: New York Times’s, other newspapers’ claims may suffer same fate
While not binding, an order to dismiss a DMCA-based claim against Github does not bode well for comparable claims by the New York Times and other newspaper publishers.
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This NYT-OpenAI discovery issue can complicate any news organization’s copyright lawsuit against AI providers: which parts are original?
OpenAI’s lawyers seek information from the New York Times that will enable a distinction between the NYT’s original creations and third-party material incorporated into its articles.