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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. This, of course, could be an accident based on true intellectual curiosity, but I do not believe it. Case 1- Doe 1 v. GitHub Inc., Ltd, et al.-

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No Free Use in the Purple Rain – U.S. Supreme Court Finds License of Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” Infringes Photographer’s Copyright

LexBlog IP

The Copyright Act motivates creativity by granting the author of an original creative work rights to reproduce their work, prepare derivatives works, and (in the case of pictorial or graphic works) display the copyrighted works publicly. In fact, that is precisely what occurred in this matter. 3d 312 (S.D.

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Copyright and Generative AI: What Can We Learn from Model Terms and Conditions?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Yet especially in the business-to-consumer or “B2C” context, these ToS have often been reviled as largely unread, not understood, and creating an abusive relationship of imbalance of power in monopolistic or oligopolistic markets. Is it a proper copyright ownership or an assigned license? We hope to return to this theme in future work.

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New Tools, Old Rules: Is The Music Industry Ready To Take On AI?

Copyright Lately

billion in the first quarter of 2023 , largely driven by successful releases from Morgan Wallen, Taylor Swift, and the aforementioned Drake. That is, in fact, the very nature of sound recording copyright and ownership.” ” Michael Nash, April 26, 2023 Again, Nash’s statement is correct as far as it goes.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

According to the complaint, these separate entities are just one big data-sharing family, leveraging their combined resources in non-standard ways such as Microsoft sharing hardware and cloud infrastructure resources in exchange for an ownership interest in OpenAI. 2023 WL 3449131 at *1 (N.D. May 11, 2023). Complaint at 31.

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HULM Entertainment v.  Fantasy Sports: Reanalysing Originality, Idea-Expression Dichotomy and Copyrightability of GUIs

SpicyIP

This app, as they claimed, is unique in that it combines a stock market trading feature alongside fantasy gaming, something that they said was non-existent in the market prior to its app. The matter found itself back in court, before the Division Bench (DB), in less than a month though.

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Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture – Author as Revenue Sharer

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Ginsburg’s lecture took place on 3 May 2023. is non-alienable and, therefore, is still very beneficial to authors, despite its evident shortcomings (such as the exclusion of “works for hire” and derivative works, as well as the requirement of notice from the author to effect the termination rights). As an example, Prof.