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German court hands down GenAI copyright ruling: robots.txt must be respected, but data mining by scientific non-profit is cleared
https://aifray.com/german-court-hands-down-genai-copyright-ruling-robots-txt-must-be-respected-but-data-mining-by-scientific-non-profit-is-cleared/
Published: September 30, 2024 14:30
While dozens of U.S. copyright cases over Generative AI are still in the early stages, a German court has handed down a first ruling, applying EU copyright rules.
Court stays Github AI copyright case to refer central DMCA question to Ninth Circuit: interlocutory appeal
https://aifray.com/court-stays-github-ai-copyright-case-to-refer-central-dmca-question-to-ninth-circuit-interlocutory-appeal/
Published: September 28, 2024 07:36
Judge Jon S. Tigar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has granted a motion to let class-action lawyers appeal a specific legal question involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and has stayed the…
UK CMA clears third AI partnership analyzed as ‘merger’: Amazon-Anthropic (previously Microsoft-Inflection, Microsoft-Mistral)
https://aifray.com/uk-cma-clears-third-ai-partnership-analyzed-as-merger-amazon-anthropic-previously-microsoft-inflection-microsoft-mistral/
Published: September 27, 2024 14:58
A little over five months after launching three AI-related "merger" investigations of commercial partnerships, the CMA has concluded the last one without proceeding to an in-depth investigation. Still, the basis was structurally different in each case.
Book authors bring class-action lawsuit against Claude maker Anthropic over alleged copyright violations
https://aifray.com/book-authors-bring-class-action-lawsuit-against-claude-maker-anthropic-over-alleged-copyright-violations/
Published: August 20, 2024 14:33
A new class action complaint by (fiction and non-fiction) book authors alleges copyright infringement by Anthropic's Claude LLM.
Microsoft filing with UK CMA suggests Amazon and Google spend money on regulatory lobbying rather than software license fees
https://aifray.com/microsoft-filing-with-uk-cma-suggests-amazon-and-google-spend-money-on-regulatory-lobbying-rather-than-software-license-fees/
Published: July 30, 2024 14:11
The software licensing-related part of the UK CMA's cloud market investigation appears to lack a numerical basis to prove adverse effects on competition.
Developer class-action seeks to put Github AI copyright case on hold pending appellate clarification of DMCA
https://aifray.com/developer-class-action-seeks-to-put-github-ai-copyright-case-on-hold-pending-appellate-clarification-of-dmca/
Published: July 27, 2024 12:19
Context: Some of the U.S. copyright infringement lawsuits targeting AI providers like OpenAI involve § 1202 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims over the alleged removal of copyright management information (CMI). In the Northern District of…
U.S., EU and UK antitrust enforcers issue joint statement underscoring their focus on Generative AI matters
https://aifray.com/u-s-eu-and-uk-antitrust-enforcers-issue-joint-statement-underscoring-their-focus-on-generative-ai-matters/
Published: July 23, 2024 14:28
The two U.S. antitrust agencies (DOJ and FTC) have signed a joint statement with the European Commission and the UK Competition & Markets Authority that stresses the importance of competition enforcement in connection with Generative AI.
Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) launched with backing of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, other key players
https://aifray.com/coalition-for-secure-ai-cosai-launched-with-backing-of-amazon-google-microsoft-nvidia-openai-other-key-players/
Published: July 20, 2024 12:35
Under the auspices of OASIS, the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) brings a number of major technology companies together to define methodologies for the secure development, deployment and use of AI systems.
California dismissal of DMCA claim against Github now public: New York Times’s, other newspapers’ claims may suffer same fate
https://aifray.com/california-dismissal-of-dmca-claim-against-github-now-public-new-york-timess-other-newspapers-claims-may-suffer-same-fate/
Published: July 9, 2024 05:39
While not binding, an order to dismiss a DMCA-based claim against Github does not bode well for comparable claims by the New York Times and other newspaper publishers.
Google to UK CMA: “AI … not yet an important consideration for customers’ choice of cloud providers”
https://aifray.com/google-to-uk-cma-ai-not-yet-an-important-consideration-for-customers-choice-of-cloud-providers/
Published: July 8, 2024 13:10
Google's cloud computing division tells the UK CMA that "the impact of AI on the overall UK public cloud
infrastructure market remains uncertain."