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Canadian Media Companies Target OpenAI in Copyright Lawsuit But Weak Claims Suggest Settlement the Real Goal

Michael Geist

The claim is sprinkled with the most obvious reason: the Canadian media companies want a settlement that involves OpenAI paying licence fees for the inclusion of their content in its large language models and the lawsuit is designed to kickstart negotiations. The data was cut off in 2017, well within the range of the lawsuit.

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3 Count: Levitating Lawsuit

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The lawsuit was filed by Artikal Sound System, a band behind the 2017 song Live Your Life. According to the lawsuit, the album that Live Your LIfe was on reached the number 2 spot for reggae in 2017, meaning that it’s very easy for Dua Lipa to have heard it. No details have been released about the terms of the settlement.

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3 Count: Time’s Side

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However, under the conventional theory of damages, Starz would have only been eligible for damages on infringements going back to May 2017, three years before the lawsuit was filed in May 2020. With that, they began pushing for a settlement. Through discovery, Starz learned that these infringements went all the way back to 2013.

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3 Count: Granted Cert

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She licensed the photo to Vanity Fair magazine for use as an artist reference. However, Warhol went beyond the single licensed work and created 15 additional works known as the Prince Series , which became public after the musician’s death in 2016. million lawsuit filed against them over the 2017 song Privacy.

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3 Count: Truth Settles

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First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that Lizzo has reached a settlement with her former collaborators over her hit song Truth Hurts. According to the lawsuit, the trio collaborated with Lizzo in 2017 to create the song, which included an unreleased song entitled Healthy that they had created.

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3 Count: Clubbed Penguin

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First off today, Joe Tidy at the BBC reports that the City of London Police have arrested three people and shuttered the website of a group that was running an unauthorized clone of Club Penguin, the Disney social media site/game that shuttered in 2017. The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.

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3 Count: Radio Trio

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Global Music Rights (GMR) is a performing rights organization (PRO) similar to ASCAP and BMI in that they license the rights to compositions to third parties, including radio stations. GMR has reached similar settlements with other radio groups, including one with the Radio Music License Committee.

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