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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.

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The Risks of Dual Licensing in The Pioneering Landscape of Contemporary Open Source

Traverse Legal Blog

Unlike traditional proprietary software, SaaS or PaaS business models where license terms can often be renegotiated or amended in subsequent contract cycles, open-source licensing is far less forgiving of afterthoughts. It allows the contributor to retain ownership while granting Google the legal rights to use the contribution.

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The Risks of Dual Licensing in The Pioneering Landscape of Contemporary Open Source

LexBlog IP

Unlike traditional proprietary software, SaaS or PaaS business models where license terms can often be renegotiated or amended in subsequent contract cycles, open-source licensing is far less forgiving of afterthoughts. It allows the contributor to retain ownership while granting Google the legal rights to use the contribution.

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If “Trespass to Chattels” Isn’t Limited to “Chattels,” Anarchy Ensues–Best Carpet Values v. Google

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

As a result, the legal issues rarely are litigated any more. * * *. Underlying this litigation is an epistemological question: what does a “canonical” version of a web page look like? Implied-in-Law Contract/Unjust Enrichment. WhenU concluded that trademarks was a dead-end. physical property), not intangibles.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

On the first, substantial litigation has already been launched concerning whether the data used to train these models requires payment or opt-in from creatives whose work has been ingested, often without consent. Is it a proper copyright ownership or an assigned license? We hope to return to this theme in future work.

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WIPIP Concurrent Session #3: Copyright Doctrine

43(B)log

Much of the litigation thus turns on what it means for a similarity to be probative of copying. In 1963, Disney expressed skepticism about monopoly aspects of extended term and “expressed doubt that Congress would approve a longer ownership period.” Could attend to contracts of adhesion in that way. Mostly music infringement.

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Web Page Framing Isn’t Trespass to Chattels–Best Carpet Values v. Google

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The plaintiffs lost al of the framing cases then, but here we are in 2024, still litigating framing cases. Worse, it’s not clear the users have a “possessory interest” in those bits due to the possibility that copyright and contract law that may limit what users can do with those bits. What are we even talking about?

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