Category: AI Providers
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German music rights collecting society suing OpenAI: members are both fascinated and frightened by Generative AI
German music rights collecting society GEMA provided a background briefing for the press today on its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI that is designed to clarify key legal questions ASAP.
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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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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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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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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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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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Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) launched with backing of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, other key players
Under the auspices of OASIS, the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) brings a number of major technology companies together to define methodologies for the secure development, deployment and use of AI systems.
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Google to UK CMA: “AI … not yet an important consideration for customers’ choice of cloud providers”
Google’s cloud computing division tells the UK CMA that “the impact of AI on the overall UK public cloud infrastructure market remains uncertain.”
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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.