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How Fair Use Favors OpenAI in the ANI Lawsuit

IP and Legal Filings

Fair Use is one of the principles being mooted in defense of OpenAI to argue that the latters Use of the formers copyrighted content fits within Fair Use thresholds and is, thereby, justifiable. 2015), also known as the Google Books Case. [2]

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Online Learning Service Denies Copyright Infringement Claims

BYU Copyright Blog

Course Hero has now filed its answer and denies many of Post University's allegations.Course Hero asserts numerous affirmative defenses against Post University, including failure to state a claim, fair use, and safe harbor protections through the DMCA.

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Cloned-and-Revised Legal Documents Aren’t Copyrightable–UIRC v. William Blair

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This case revisits the venerable topic of if, and when, cloning-and-revising a legal document can be copyright infringement. The plaintiff gets an expensive lesson in the law of derivative works. * * * UIRC offers bonds using a private placement memorandum (PPM) and an indenture of trust.

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Religious Group Targets Parent With Copyright Lawsuit Over Kids’ Curriculum

TorrentFreak

Parrish used unauthorized means to obtain the password-protected LifeWise Curriculum only accessible by paid employees of LifeWise who have been issued login credentials,” the allegations begin. “Defendant Zachary Parrish posed as a LifeWise volunteer to gain access to internal LifeWise documents. And so it begins.

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What Goldsmith Means to AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. The district court agreed, but was reversed by the Second Circuit, which found the degree of new expression insufficient to justify a finding of fair use. Goldsmith , 598 S.

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Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

As currently worded, the transparency obligation to “document and make publicly available a summary of the use of training data protected under copyright law” is impossible to comply with. In the US, absent a specific TDM exception, the legal question is whether these activities qualify as fair use.

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The Licensing Vector: A Fair Approach to Content Use in LLMs

Velocity of Content

For their part, some GenAI companies like OpenAI argue that there is no infringement, either because there is no “copying” of protected materials or that the copyright principle of fair use uniformly applies to generative AI activities. Supporters of fair use point to a U.S.