Category: AI Providers
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Korea’s antitrust watchdog issues GenAI competition report, mulls merger control regime amendments
The Korea Fair Trade Commission landmark report raises concerns about Big Tech partnerships in AI, including Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection employees in March this year.
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OpenAI’s Sora latest major AI technology to be withheld from EU, UK markets — at least for now and presumably due to overregulation
OpenAI’s Sora is the latest example of a major new AI-based service that is, at least for the time being, unavailable to European users, presumably due to overregulation.
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Indian news agency seeks world’s first preliminary injunction against OpenAI over copyright infringement; court appoints experts
Context: Last week, a copyright infringement lawsuit by India’s Asian News International (ANI) against OpenAI became discoverable in the Delhi High Court (HC) (November 18, 2024 ai fray article). An initial case management conference was held the following day, and OpenAI’s counsel declared that his client had stopped training ChatGPT with ANI’s content as of…
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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…