“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”: Court records show what Microsoft and OpenAI actually thought about AI training — “Internal Microsoft communications identified the ‘real risk’ that generative AI could ‘significantly disrupt the employment of the very people who generated the data on which the foundation model was trained.’ A separate policy document put it like this: ‘LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain.’ The current approach has created a ‘doom loop,’ according to another internal Microsoft document.”
Fair Use Is Not a Shield AI Companies Can Use to Shelter Their Use of Pirate Copies: Analysis of Fair Use Factor 1 — “The fact that AI companies’ intentional use of these illicit sites does not presumptively disqualify them from claiming fair use is antithetical to the foundations and goals of our copyright system and the rights it guarantees.”
Afro Caribbean Creative Bridge forum: Stakeholders call for stronger intellectual property, copyright protection for creatives — “The forum brought together stakeholders to explore ways of strengthening intellectual property protection and deepening creative ties between Africa and the Caribbean.”
MLB Loses Most of Cable Royalty Fight, but Court Still Throws Out Copyright Board’s Split — “The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday vacated the Copyright Royalty Board’s allocation of cable retransmission royalties collected from 2014 through 2017 and sent the matter back for further proceedings. The ruling came even as the court upheld most of the methods challenged by MLB and Public Broadcasting Service.”