German court rules AI music firm Suno broke copyright rules — The final text of the decision is not yet public, and the ruling can be appealed. Nevertheless, first-hand reports suggest the court held both that the training of the model with copyrighted works is not fair use under US law and that outputs retrievable in Germany can be domestic acts of infringement.
Only humans can be ‘authors’ say Canadian music publishers in test case on copyright status of AI-generated works — The association for Canadian music publishers has formally intervened in a challenge of a copyright registration for an AI-generated work which has already been denied registration by the US Copyright Office.
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author’s style — Ars Technica reports the generative AI model is now preventing outputs that copy authors’ styles, which suggests the company may foresee exposure to liability for the outputs it model generates independent of liability for training.
Meta Says It Has Scanned Every Single Public Instagram Post With its AI — Another week, another tone-deaf admission from the social media giant. The benefit of the scanning touted by Meta is that users spend more time on Instagram.
It’s a wrap: Constructive discovery under copyright statute of limitations — Attorney Vincent Li analyzes a recent Second Circuit decision in Hayden v. Koons in which the court dismissed a copyright infringement claim as untimely rejecting plaintiffs constructive discovery arguments.