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Generative AI: admissibility and infringement in the two US class actions against Meta’s LLaMA

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The plaintiffs’ factual allegations in Kadrey v Meta and Chabon v Meta The first class action, Kadrey v Meta ( here ), was filed on 7 July 2023, in U.S. The second class action, Chabon v Meta, was filed on 12 September 2023 before the same court ( here ). Vicarious Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. §

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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2023 WL 3449131 at *1 (N.D. May 11, 2023). As of May 2023, GitHub has updated this provision on its website to explicitly read “any code, text, … documents, or other files”). Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants reproduced code as output without attribution, copyright notice, or license terms. GitHub, Inc.

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Not Past the Post Yet

BYU Copyright Blog

Post University claimed that Course Hero committed, among other things, multiple instances of copyright infringement, trademark infringement, violation of the DMCA, and unfair competition by posting and creating derivative works of educational materials owned by Post University without Post University's permission.

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Court Dismisses Most Claims in Authors’ Lawsuit Against OpenAI

LexBlog IP

First, the court dismissed plaintiffs’ claim against OpenAI for vicarious copyright infringement based on allegations that the outputs its users generate on ChatGPT are infringing. The court also dismissed claims for violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). 7, 2023). [3] OpenAI, Inc.

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Court Allows Three of Plaintiffs’ Claims to Survive Motion to Dismiss in Lawsuit That Could Significantly Impact the World of Generative AI

LexBlog IP

GitHub in the Context of Other Generative AI Lawsuits and the Implications for the Future of Generative AI This suit against GitHub’s Copilot is just one of many copyright-related lawsuits brought against makers of different generative AI systems. Stability AI Ltd. et al , No. Stability AI Ltd. et al , No. Stability AI, Inc. ,

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Once a work was published, state law was divested, and one of two things happened. If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain.

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007: License to Infringe

Dear Rich IP Blog

In 2023, a Japanese musical, Casino Royale - My Name's Bond, based on Ian Fleming's Casino Royale novel, became the first stage play featuring the character of James Bond. Additionally, does the public domain status of Casino Royale allow me to use the book title and the character of James Bond in derivative works, such as films?