New York Times-led group asks court to sanction OpenAI in US copyright dispute — In litigation originally filed in 2023 alleging the AI developer infringed copyright in news publishers’ works when it trained its Large Language Models, the group of newspapers this week asked the court to impose sanctions on OpenAI for allegedly misrepresenting its ability to search its training datasets and deleting other key evidence during discovery.
Judge Chhabria denies Kadrey book authors’ motion to seek an interlocutory appeal of downloading part of ruling in fair use decision — The order means that, for now, the Ninth Circuit will not weigh in on the question of whether copying works from notorious pirate sites can be excused if the works are later used for something that qualifies as fair use.
Outcry as Meta lets users make AI images from public Instagram profile pics — The feature, which is turned on by default, facilitates the creation and manipulation of user photos with Meta’s artificial intelligence tools.
Taylor Swift Granted Motion to Dismiss ‘Absurd’ Copyright Lawsuit Where Woman Claimed Pop Star Copied Her Poems — Days after her Madison Square Garden wedding, the pop star won a motion to dismiss claims she copied from a Florida poet to create lyrics “for more than a dozen songs featured on her albums Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights and The Tortured Poets Department.”
French regulator slams Meta over failure to pay media outlets — A 2019 French law requires online service providers, including social media companies, to obtain authorization from publishers of online news services or press agencies before any reproduction or communication to the public of all or part of their press publications in a digital form and compensate them for exploitation of those rights. This week, the French competition authority ordered Meta to resume negotiations with two news agency groups in order to meet its obligations under the law.