Staying out of trouble In a “best practices” document published by the Authors Guild, the professional organization urges writers to […]
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Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says. Artist Elmer Saflor, who goes by the […]
OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight. OpenAI is facing calls for “serious sanctions” […]
NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI
NYT targets Microsoft supercomputer In 2023, the NYT became the first major publisher to sue OpenAI. The prominent newspaper alleged […]
The $58,000 TV bill: When DirecTV sued O.J. Simpson for piracy
In 2001, the FBI raided O.J.’s house and found smartcards, bootloaders. Imagine the life of a federal judge in the […]
Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval
“Powerball-size” attorney payouts Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees. After several authors and class […]
AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
A US court last year found that Anthropic’s training of LLMs on some copyrighted content could be considered fair use […]
News orgs want OpenAI to dig up millions of deleted ChatGPT logs
Describing OpenAI’s alleged “playbook” to dodge copyright claims, news groups accused OpenAI of failing to “take any steps to suspend […]
Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora
An AI-generated version of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seen in a still capture from a video generated by Sora 2. […]
Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, […]