Thousands of authors seek share of Anthropic copyright settlement — “The authors sued Anthropic in 2024, arguing that the company, which is backed by Amazon and Alphabet, used pirated versions of their books without permission or compensation to teach Claude to respond to human prompts. The case is one of dozens brought by copyright owners including authors and news outlets against tech companies over the training of their large language models, and the first major U.S. case to settle.”
The Character Without an Author: Character Copyright Protection in the Age of Generative AI — “As GenAI tools become more integrated into creative pipelines, courts and the U.S. Copyright Office will need to clarify how these technologies interact with longstanding character protection doctrines.”
Kraftwerk Loses Two-Decade-Long Copyright Dispute After Court Rules Unauthorized Sample Was a ‘Pastiche’ — “The path to the decision has been a long and complex one, with 22 years spent circumnavigating the European justice system across appeals and remandments that ping-ponged between two regional German courts, the German Federal Court of Justice, the German Federal Constitutional Court and, now, the ECJ.”
Pro Codes Critics Have It Exactly Backwards — “For more than 125 years, nonprofit standards development organizations (SDOs) have produced the rigorous safety codes and standards that protect American lives, addressing everything from building safety to wildfires to active shooters. These organizations develop standards through a transparent, consensus-based process at no cost to taxpayers. It’s one of the most successful public-private partnerships in American history.”