“Generative A.I. is the latest in a long line of innovations to put pressure on our already dysfunctional copyright system. Intellectual property accounts for some or all of the wealth of at least half of the world’s fifty richest people, and it has been estimated to account for fifty-two per cent of the value of U.S. merchandise exports. I.P. is […]
“Lam has urged artists who found their names among the list of more than 16,000 to sign on as additional plaintiffs, saying: “Gen AI techbros would have you believe the lawsuit is dead or thrown out, no, the lawsuit is still alive and well, and more evidence and plaintiffs have been added to the casefile.” Link to Story
“A group of 11 nonfiction authors have joined a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court that accuses OpenAI and Microsoft (MSFT) of misusing books the authors have written to train the models behind OpenAI’s popular chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence based software. -Blake Brittain” Link to Story
“In a decision issued on Monday, the court said that a picture, generated via US start-up StabilityAI’s text-to-image software Stable Diffusion, should be considered an artwork under the protection of copyright laws based on the ‘originality’ and intellectual input of its human creator, according to a redacted document of the ruling shared by IPcode, a legal industry account on social […]
“The SAG deal is similar to the DGA and WGA deals in that it demands protections for any instance where machine-learning tools are used to manipulate or exploit their work. All three unions have claimed their AI agreements are “historic” and “protective,” but whether one agrees with that or not, these deals function as important guideposts. AI doesn’t just posit […]