Universal partners with AI startup Udio after settling copyright suit — “Universal Music Group says it has made ‘industry-first strategic agreements’ to ‘settle copyright infringement litigation’ with AI startup Udio and license music for a new AI-powered music platform. The move is one of several anticipated licensing deals expected to land in the next few weeks as the sector grapples with how to handle AI.”
Authors’ Class Action Lawsuit Against OpenAI Moves Ahead — “Authors scored another victory in their fight to protect their work from AI scraping when a New York federal judge denied OpenAI’s request to dismiss authors’ claims that text generated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT infringes their copyrights. The suit, now in the Southern District of New York, consolidates lawsuits from a number of authors, as well as the Authors Guild, that were filed in different courts.”
Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AI — “The commission sparked outrage in August after its interim report on ‘harnessing data and the digital economy’ suggested granting an exemption to copyright laws that would effectively allow technology companies free access to content to train their AI models.”
Three Copyright Principles to Apply in AI Infringement Cases — “When considering the first and fourth fair use factors, some people mistakenly think that the fair use defense requires that the AI-generated output be substantially similar to the ingested work. That notion is incorrect. As noted above, substantial similarity is part of the test for infringement. It plays no role in determining whether a particular use qualifies as a fair use. An AI-generated output can compete with, and therefore harm the market for, a copyrighted work that has been ingested even though the works at issue are not substantially similar to one another.”