Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book — “These results give everyone in the AI copyright debate something to latch onto. For AI industry critics, the big takeaway is that—at least for some models and some books—memorization is not a fringe phenomenon.”
Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data — “‘The cultural institutions that host online collections are not resourced to continue adding more servers, deploying more sophisticated firewalls, and hiring more operations engineers in perpetuity,’ the report says. ‘That means it is in the long-term interest of the entities swarming them with bots to find a sustainable way to access the data they are so hungry for.'”
Supreme Court declines to hear three IP cases — “Copyright discovery rule. The Court declined to hear the petition in RADesign, Inc. v. Michael Grecco Productions, Inc., Dkt No. 24-1137, letting stand a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit allowing a photographer’s copyright infringement case against a shoe designer to proceed.”
Beijing court hands AI copyright violators up to 18 months in prison — “The four defendants were accused of using AI software to alter original illustrations found online, creating more than 3,000 jigsaw puzzles for sale and making illegal profits exceeding 270,000 yuan ($37,556), prosecutors said. The court found them guilty under a criminal indictment from district prosecutors, marking what is reportedly the first criminal ruling in Beijing involving copyright infringement through generative AI.”
Music Publishers and X Begin ‘Good Faith’ Negotiations in Copyright Lawsuit — “’Twitter [now X] stands alone as the largest social media platform that has completely refused to license the millions of songs on its service,’ National Music Publishers Association president and CEO David Israelite said in a statement around the time of the suit’s filing. ‘Twitter knows full well that music is leaked, launched, and streamed by billions of people every day on its platform.’”