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DMCA Copyright Infringement? The Perils of Relying on AI

Hugh Stephens Blog

DMCA Copyright Infringement Noticeā€. Immediately my sphincter puckered, and a frisson went down my spine as I read it was from one Alicia Weber, Trademark Attorney, with Nationwide Legal … Continue reading "DMCA Copyright Infringement? Should I open it or ignore it? I took the plunge. The Perils of Relying on AI"

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Professor Sues Cheating Student for Copyright Infringement

Plagiarism Today

Chapman University, for their part, is not involved in the lawsuit, but a spokesperson for the school made it clear that instructors hold the copyright in their work and are free to take whatever action they see necessary to protect their creations. Course Hero states that it has a policy to not tolerate copyright infringement.

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Court Dismisses Authorsā€™ Copyright Infringement Claims Against OpenAI

TorrentFreak

Authors Sue, OpenAI Responds In a lawsuit filed last June , authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad accused OpenAI of direct and vicarious copyright infringement, among other things. The only claim that should be able to survive is direct copyright infringement, but OpenAI said it expects to defeat that at a later stage.

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Limitation period for copyright infringement actions in France

The IPKat

This Kat always eagerly awaits decisions from the French Cour de Cassation, so he was delighted to find out about an important recent decision on copyright (Cour de cassation, 1st Civil Chamber, 15 November 2023, nĀ° 22-23.266). The judgment focuses on a procedural aspect, namely the limitation period for an action for copyright infringement.

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AI Copyright Infringement Suit Proceeds in California District Court

JD Supra Law

In an early test of the interplay between artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law, the US District Court for the Northern District of California recently allowed a copyright infringement claim to proceed against an AI developer that used an artistā€™s works without authorization to train a machine learning model.

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Resolving GenAI copyright infringement questions: 4 court decisions

Barry Sookman

Introduction The question as to whether the generative AI (GenAI) systems and their use infringes copyright is a hotly debated one, with no fewer than 12 proposed class actions and 3 lawsuits in the United States and one in the United Kingdom already focused on resolving this question.

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More Authors Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement

IP Watchdog

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a number of Tony, Grammy and Peabody award winners are the latest to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement based on the way it trains its popular chatbot, ChatGPT. In July, comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey brought a similar suit against OpenAI.