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  • The New York Times v. Microsoft Corp. and OPENAI, Inc. et al.
    by Elliot Zimmerman on January 8, 2024 at 5:44 am

    Suit was filed on December 27, 2023, by THE NEW YORK TIMES CORPORATION v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION, OPENAI, INC., et al. in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Case 1:23-cv-11195. Plaintiff alleges in paragraph 2 of the Complaint: “Defendants’ unlawful use of The Times’s work to create artificial intelligence products that compete with it threatens The Times’s ability to provide that service. Defendants’ generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) tools rely on Continue reading The New York Times v. Microsoft Corp. and OPENAI, Inc. et al.→

  • Grammy’s New AI Rule Clarifies Computers Are Not Eligible for Awards
    by Elliot Zimmerman on July 11, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Harvey Mason, Grammy’s Chief, makes clear that ‘We’re Not Giving an Award to a Computer’ and new rules have been enacted to be eligible for an award! The full wording of the ruling follows: “The GRAMMY Award recognizes creative excellence. Only human creators are eligible to be submitted for consideration for, nominated for, or win a GRAMMY Award. A work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any Categories. A work that features Continue reading Grammy’s New AI Rule Clarifies Computers Are Not Eligible for Awards→

  • Class Action v. ChatGPT maker OpenAI
    by Elliot Zimmerman on June 30, 2023 at 2:19 am

    Interesting link below about a class action wherein Plaintiffs contend OpenAI violated the rights of millions of internet users when it used their social media comments, blog posts, Wikipedia articles and family recipes. IMHO, we are on the dawn of defining the boundaries for, including without limitation, culling data from the internet, the uses made thereof, and the rights of the authors. Sounds like Star Trek… going where no one has gone before. Here’s a Continue reading Class Action v. ChatGPT maker OpenAI→

  • AI Art Generation and Copyright Law
    by Elliot Zimmerman on January 26, 2023 at 4:46 pm

    In cases where there is NO HUMAN INVOLVEMENT, Urantia Found. v. Kristen Maaherra, 114 F.3d 955, 957–59 (9th Cir. 1997), has indicated that the work is solely created by AI and no copyright will issue. The newest spin on these AI issues exists when the Artist feeds his underlying work to a computer and uses AI to apply styles it has “learned” by scanning named Artists like DaVinci, Michaelangelo, etc. Andersen et al v. Stability Continue reading AI Art Generation and Copyright Law→

  • Artists Sue AI Art Generators for Copyright Infringement
    by Elliot Zimmerman on January 18, 2023 at 4:23 pm

    Andersen et al v. Stability AI Ltd. et al, Case No. 3:23-cv-00201 in the United State District Court for the Northern District of CA, San Francisco Division, is a class action suit wherein several artists are suing AI art generators Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt for using their work to train AI tools. The suit contends defendants downloaded billions of images from the internet without consent which were used to create AI styles of the Continue reading Artists Sue AI Art Generators for Copyright Infringement→