Category: AI & Copyright
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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.
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OpenAI motion seeks to narrow scope of NY Times case and of discovery, counters complaint’s narrative
A motion by OpenAI to dismiss parts of the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit has the potential to narrow the issues in the case. On top, the motion lays out OpenAI’s overall perspective.
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Lawyer defending Microsoft against New York Times lawsuit on fair use grounds lost Oracle v. Google on that basis—here’s why that’s good
Copyright lawyer Annette Hurst is defending Microsoft against the New York Times’ OpenAI lawsuit. When suing Google on Oracle’s behalf, she lost over fair use. But the result and the experience come in handy now.
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Game distribution platform Steam aims to approve “vast majority of games that use [AI]” with new rules
Valve, the operator of leading game distribution platform Steam, was previously criticized for categorically rejecting games with AI-based content and has now outlined its new approach, which will evolve further.
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Five proportionality considerations concerning New York Times’ copyright lawsuit over ChatGPT
The New York Times Company’s copyright action against Micosoft and OpenAI will be decided with proportionality considerations in mind (three of the four fair use factors; damages; injunctive relief).