AI Bots Are Stripping European Booksellers’ Shelves; EU Copyright Law May Ban It — The industrial-scale destruction of books for training LLMs has reached Europe. The practice emerged following the decision in Bartz v. Anthropic, a lone district court decision in the US that ignored clear contrary precedent.
Meta Fails to Block Zuckerberg Deposition in AI, Copyright Suit — The Meta CEO will be deposed in the copyright suit before the end of the month. Counsel for one of the plaintiffs had argued that Zuckerberg “has personal knowledge of Meta’s AI initiatives including Project Vellum, a program to purchase and scan physical books to train AI models.”
The French Association of News Media has accused Google’s AI summaries of copyright infringement and called on regulators to launch an investigation. — Google’s AI summaries are in the spotlight in France, which has press publisher rules requiring payment and good-faith negotiations by digital aggregators to display article extracts.
Shein loses UK copyright lawsuit against rival Temu in key e-commerce ruling — The clash beteween the two ecommerce giants began with allegations by Shein that Temu engaged in “industrial-scale” copying of photos of its clothing offerings. The UK court rejected the claims, finding that Temu had not authorized infringement by third-party merchants that uploaded the images to its platform, nor that it had the requisite knowledge of the infringement.
Tech Bro Scrapes Anti-AI Photo App Cara, Then Gloats About It — The site was created to allow photographers to share their work online on a platform that would prevent it from being scraped to train AI. The site was scraped anyway. The site’s founder asks, “What are artists supposed to do? We already have anti-bot and anti-scraping measures. We already set robots.txt telling bots not to scrape for AI.”