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Authors Get Mixed Results With Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit

The IP Law Blog

The author plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI infringed on their published works by using these works to help train its LLM. The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM.

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The Basics of Open Access

Plagiarism Today

The largest is that it locks important research behind a paywall, meaning that other researchers, members of the public and even government agencies may not be able to access the work they need. ND: This means “no derivatives” which bars the creation of derivative works. How Open Access is Different.

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3 Count: Royalty Redirection

Plagiarism Today

However, publishing companies had been continuing to collect royalties on behalf of songwriters even after the rights were reclaimed due to the law saying that publishers can continue licensing any existing derivative works. million in damages, awarding the maximum statutory damages of $150,000 on 28 different works.

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Authors Get Mixed Results With Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit

LexBlog IP

The author plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI infringed on their published works by using these works to help train its LLM. The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM.

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. This, of course, could be an accident based on true intellectual curiosity, but I do not believe it. is being used as code. v Stability A.I.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Specifically, a group called Spice DAO purchased an NFT displaying a copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ for $3 million, assuming it would grant them the ability to produce derivative works, such as an animated Dune series.

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AI and Copyright Wars: The New York Times Takes on OpenAI and Microsoft

Intepat

Allegations and Claims by The New York Times The New York Times claims that these companies are trying to take undue advantage of the hard work and money put into creating such a high and superior quality of journalism. Training AI models using these works could infringe on these rights, especially without authorisation.