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Authors Get Mixed Results With Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit

The IP Law Blog

On February 12, 2024, a District Court in the Northern District of California issued its Order and ruled on the OpenAI defendants’ motions to dismiss various claims in the two pending putative class action lawsuits. (It The author plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI infringed on their published works by using these works to help train its LLM.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright. And why is that?

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Authors Get Mixed Results With Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit

LexBlog IP

On February 12, 2024, a District Court in the Northern District of California issued its Order and ruled on the OpenAI defendants’ motions to dismiss various claims in the two pending putative class action lawsuits. (It OpenAI, Inc.

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Lidl v Tesco – Court of Appeal overturns copyright infringement finding

Kluwer Copyright Blog

On 19 March 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down its decision on the appeal in the Lidl v Tesco case ( [2024] EWCA Civ 262 ), holding as follows. On infringement, the judge found that the similarities were sufficiently close to be more likely a result of copying than coincidence and so it was for Tesco to explain those similarities.

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Court Dismisses Most Claims in Authors’ Lawsuit Against OpenAI

LexBlog IP

The court rejected the conclusory assertion that every output of ChatGPT is an infringing derivative work, finding that plaintiffs had failed to allege “what the outputs entail or allege that any particular output is substantially similar – or similar at all – to [plaintiffs’] books.” 12, 2024) (Dkt.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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. There was no question about the copying–the revised William Blair documents sloppily retained references to UIRC). Copyright Protection for Legal Documents.

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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. The Ninth Circuit fixes that obvious error, saying the chattel in question “are the copies of Plaintiffs’ websites.” The “copies” in question are not copies in the abstract sense.

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