Judge Hints Anthropic’s AI Training on Books is Fair Use — “Anthropic’s use of notorious digital piracy websites raised concerns for Alsup. In response, the company’s counsel, Joseph Richard Farris of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, argued the Supreme Court has been skeptical whether bad faith has any effect on the fair use analysis. Alsup pushed back, saying ‘I have a hard time seeing that you can commit what is ordinarily a crime, but get exonerated because you end up using it for a transformative use.'”
Copyright Alliance CEO and Others Resign from ALI’s Copyright Restatement Project — “In a statement issued today, Copyright Alliance CEO Keith Kupferschmid announced that he, along with numerous other advisers and liaisons, have resigned from the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Restatement of Copyright Law (Restatement) project, effective immediately. The resignations follow those of four prominent law professors earlier this week.”
Top copyright official sues Trump over firing — “As head of the nation’s copyright office, Perlmutter would have overseen registering copyright claims and maintaining records about copyright ownership. The office functioned within the Library of Congress by providing the copyright deposits that make up a significant part of the library’s collections. The copyright office is also responsible for conducting studies and advising Congress on copyright issues, including regarding the growing generative artificial intelligence industry.”
Photographer Loses Copyright Lawsuit Claiming Lil Nas X Stole His Poses — “Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the competing Instagram posts had only a handful of minor similarities, which were not enough to constitute copyright infringement. The court also concluded that the poses and themes featured in Woodland’s photos are not protected under copyright law.”
Does Human Learning equal Machine Learning? High Court of Delhi to rule on lawfulness of TDM for Machine Learning — “While dozens of US District Courts are currently grappling with the question of whether AI training with protected works constitutes fair use, the UK High Court is largely grappling with jurisdictional questions, and EU courts are mainly concerned with the modalities of rights reservations … it is now the High Court of Delhi’s turn. “