Category: AI & Copyright
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Perplexity AI ignores New York Times’s scraping ban (robots.txt), summarizes copyrighted article on EURO soccer match
Context: The use of copyrighted material by AI providers has already given rise to several infringement complaints, and the New York Times (NYT) is arguably the highest-profile media outlet to sue (June 12, 2024 ai fray article). One would assume that AI providers would be particularly cautious about potentially infringing NYT material. But no: What’s…
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New York Times would like to pick up where Elon Musk left off, seeks discovery into OpenAI’s departure from non-profit
The New York Times tells a court that OpenAI refuses to provide information on its creation of a for-profit entity. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has dropped his California lawsiut over that structural question.
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New York Times shifts focus of AI copyright case from output to input, surprisingly says Exhibit J (regurgitation of articles) no longer matters
No exhibit to a copyright infringement complaint ever received as much attention as Exhibit J to New York Times v. Microsoft & OpenAI. But the NYT’s lawyers now say they’d rather not show it to the jury (should the case proceed to trial).
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OpenAI’s lawyers to court: New York Times doesn’t want to come clean on efforts to get ChatGPT to output passages from articles
OpenAI’s lawyers have raised a discovery issue with the district court that relates to how the New York Times managed (and how it failed) to get ChatGPT to quote entire paragraphs from NYT articles.
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Supreme Court ruling may enable New York Times to seek copyright damages going back to GPT-2 and GPT-3, but is unrelated to merits
The New York Times’s lawyers have notified the judge presiding over their copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI of a Supreme Court ruling that may help hem defend the damages period they proposed.
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Millions in the hand or billions in the bush: will negotiation, litigation or legislation give the best answer to the AI copyright question?
Some media companies, most recently the Financial Times, enter into license agreements with AI providers while others, such as the New York Times, seek billions in damages. Time will tell who it goes.
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Microsoft and OpenAI seek safeguards against New York Times’ reporting being influenced by lawyers’ access to confidential litigation documents
The NYT surprisingly refuses to promise in writing that in-house lawyers with access to highly confidential information from Microsoft and OpenAI won’t use that information to influence reporting on the case and on the defendants.
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Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Mercury News and others sue OpenAI and Microsoft — will likely be be consolidated with NYT case
A group of publishers including, among others, the Chicago Tribune and San Jose Mercury News, filed a copyright lawsuit agianst Microsoft and OpenAI in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday.
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Court filing in OpenAI case reflects NYT’s fundamental problem with copyright law: facts are free for the taking
The New York Times has filed its opposition brief to OpenAI’s motion to dismiss certain parts of the NYT’s copyright infringement lawsuit.
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AI copyright battlemap: overview of U.S. lawsuits against OpenAI, NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, others
Graphical overview of AI copyright lawsuits in the United States against OpenAI, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Meta, Google DeepMind, Stability, Anthropic etc.