Judge downplayed Meta’s “messed up” torrenting in lawsuit over AI training. A judge who may be the first to rule […]
Tag: copyright
Judge calls out OpenAI’s “straw man” argument in New York Times copyright suit
“Taken as true, these facts give rise to a plausible inference that defendants at a minimum had reason to investigate […]
Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight
Meta fights to keep leeching evidence out of AI copyright battle. Authors think that Meta’s admitted torrenting of a pirated […]
Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says
But David Seubert, who manages sound collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara library, told Ars that he frequently […]
Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding
Skip to content Meta’s copyright defense may hinge on court ignorance of torrenting terminology. A peer who downloads more data […]
Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say
Emails discussing torrenting prove that Meta knew it was “illegal,” authors alleged. And Bashlykov’s warnings seemingly landed on deaf ears, […]
Copyright Office suggests AI copyright debate was settled in 1965
Most people think purely AI-generated works shouldn’t be copyrighted, report says. Ars used Copilot to generate this AI image using […]
Democrat teams up with movie industry to propose website-blocking law
US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) today proposed a law that would let copyright owners obtain court orders requiring Internet service […]