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Generative AI: admissibility and infringement in the two US class actions against Meta’s LLaMA

Kluwer Copyright Blog

To further develop this excursus on the US case law, in this post we consider two recent class actions against Meta launched by copyright holders (mainly book authors), for alleged infringement of IP in their books and written works through use in training materials for LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI).

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. Google Books and Transformative Use The past two decades have seen a wealth of technological developments, but generative AI is qualitatively different from everything that has come before. As such, it was permissible under United States copyright law.

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5 Spooky Articles About Copyright and Halloween

Plagiarism Today

When the film was released, the print was missing a copyright notice. Under the laws at the time, this mean that it didn’t have copyright protection. 2: Dracula vs. Nosferatu: A True Copyright Horror Story. This prompted Florence Stoker to sue, a case she won handily with an order that all copies of the film be destroyed.

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Copyright Fair Use for Education

IP and Legal Filings

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. This separation was created in a time before the internet and, though it applies cleanly to movies, books and records, it doesn’t apply as cleanly to online works.

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Court Dismisses Most Claims in Authors’ Lawsuit Against OpenAI

LexBlog IP

OpenAI, Inc. , [1] a putative class action filed on behalf of a group of authors alleging that OpenAI infringed their copyrighted literary works by using them to train ChatGPT. [2] 2] OpenAI moved to dismiss all claims against it, save the claim for direct copyright infringement, and the court largely sided with OpenAI.

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October 19, 1976 – President Gerald Ford Signs the “New” Copyright Act…and Much More

Velocity of Content

The 1976 Act brought in many aspects of copyright with which we are now familiar, including codifying fair use in Section 107 (it previously had been applied on a common law basis). In sum, the traditional doctrine of fair use, as embodied in the Copyright Act, does not sanction the use made by The Nation of these copyrighted materials.

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