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AI Training, Fair Use, and the Burdens of Being First

Copyright Lately

Ross Intelligence will get plenty of second looks from courts deciding fair use in generative AI copyright cases. Those were some of the phrases legal commentators used to describe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith in the days following the Supreme Courts 2023 landmark fair use decision.

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‘Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna’s Archive, Despite Few Seeders’

TorrentFreak

Many of the details were previously sealed, but unsealed copies added to the docket yesterday reveal new information. ” In addition, there was an internal discussion about not using Facebook infrastructure to torrent, to avoid[] risk of tracing back the seeder/downloader to Meta servers. The request was denied. copyright law.

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Authors: OpenAI’s Fair Use Argument in Copyright Dispute is Misplaced

TorrentFreak

Among its arguments to dismiss the claims, the AI company cited fair use. It argued that the use of large amounts of copyrighted texts could be seen as ‘fair’ because it helps to facilitate progress and innovation. “Fair use, of course, is an important—yet limited—feature of U.S. copyright law. .

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Publicly Posted PowerPoint ≠ Public Domain

Dear Rich IP Blog

Is it still considered copyright infringement to use them? How do you tell if materials are public domain or fit under fair use? The PowerPoint slides may be available, viewable, and even downloadable, but that does not give you the right to copy and republish them. There is no statement forbidding copying.

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Copyright’s Big Win in the First Decided US Artificial Intelligence Case

Velocity of Content

Nonetheless, on February 11, the Ross case did in fact become the first US decision on the merits to directly address copying to train AI. The case arose out of the surreptitious copying of the entire Westlaw database (after having been denied a license) by a company that wanted to create an arguably competing product.

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Dispute on Copyright and Creativity

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Record labels argue that AI developers infringe on copyright when using their catalog for training without authorization. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA): This law protects against unauthorized digital copying and distribution. However, the extent to which AI training qualifies as fair use remains contentious.

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NVIDIA: Copyrighted Books Are Just Statistical Correlations to Our AI Models

TorrentFreak

Like many other AI companies, it believes that the use of copyrighted data for AI training is a prime example of fair use; especially when the output of the model doesn’t reproduce copyrighted works. That qualifies as fair use, they state. Second, whether making copies of the books is fair use.

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