Category: Copyright

Ross was an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that Thomson Reuters sued in 2020 after it attempted to build a legal search engine using data from Thomson Reuter’s legal search engine, Westlaw. Judge Bibas writes in his decision that “none of Ross’s possible defenses holds water” against copyright infringement accusations

The question of who owns AI-generated content is perhaps one of the most complex and unresolved issues in the realm of AI and graphic design today. As AI technologies continue to advance, producing increasingly sophisticated outputs, the traditional notions of authorship and ownership are being challenged in unprecedented ways.

“It potentially chokes off the original creators of the content,” Mr. Pine said. The feature, AI Overviews, felt like another step toward generative A.I. replacing “the publications that they have cannibalized,” he added.

At Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, managers, lawyers and engineers last year discussed buying the publishing house Simon & Schuster to procure long works, according to recordings of internal meetings obtained by The Times. They also conferred on gathering copyrighted data from across the internet, even if that meant facing lawsuits. Negotiating licenses with publishers, artists, musicians and the news industry would take too long, they said.

“I think part of the reason news organizations are now looking so carefully at OpenAI is because they have 20 years of history indicating that if we’re not careful, we’ll give away the keys to the kingdom,” said Andrew Morse, the publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the flagship newspaper of Cox Media Group, which is not in talks with OpenAI.

After the U.S. Copyright Office put out a call for opinions on how copyright should work with AI-generated material, the world’s biggest AI companies had a lot to say.

The world’s leading photo agencies and photographer associations have co-signed an open letter calling for legal protections against artificial intelligence (AI).

Should the artists whose art was scraped to train the models be compensated? Who owns the images that AI systems produce? Is the process of fine-tuning prompts for generative AI a form of authentic creative expression?