Bloomberg Law “The way courts will view the fair use argument for training generative artificial intelligence models with copyrighted materials will be tested Thursday in a San Francisco courtroom, when the first of dozens of such lawsuits reaches summary judgment. Meta Platforms Inc. and a group of authors including comedian Sarah Read more…
Reuters “March 6 – Apple (AAPL.O, opens new tab convinced a New York federal court on Thursday to dismiss a copyright lawsuit brought by tech journalist Dan Ackerman, who accused the tech giant of ripping off his book about the landmark video game “Tetris” for a movie on the same subject. Read more…
Bloomberg Law ” Volkswagen Group of America Inc.—a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG—is entitled to attorneys’ fees from a dismissed VDPP LLC lawsuit that accused the German automaker of incorporating patented camera-related technology into surround-view monitoring systems in its vehicles. VDPP and its attorney, William P. Ramey III of Ramey LLP, engaged in abusive Read more…
Reuters WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled on Wednesday they may dismiss a legal fight between a Miami music producer and Warner Music (WMG.O)opens new tab over a song by rapper Flo Rida. Some of the justices during arguments in the case questioned whether they should decide the Read more…
ABA Journal “Musician Dustin Ballard has turned a spare room in his Dallas home into a soundproof studio. Inside are relics from another era: a ukulele, a fiddle, a smattering of 45s and an Edison phonograph. But when he sits down at his PC to make music, he’s immersed in Read more…
The ABA Journal “Several legal novelists, including John Grisham and Scott Turow, are among 17 authors joining with the Authors Guild in a proposed class action lawsuit against the artificial intelligence program OpenAI. The Sept. 19 suit alleges that OpenAI used copyrighted work to train the chatbot ChatGPT, report Reuters, Read more…
“A federal judge in Miami has tossed an artist’s lawsuit contending that his copyrighted artwork consisting of a plastic orange and a banana duct taped to a green panel was infringed by a second banana display. U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola Jr. of the Southern District of Florida ruled Read more…