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Navigating AI Copyright Presents Challenges for Industry
artificial intelligence // March 13, 2024

Authors are suing Nvidia for illegally using their materials to train its artificial intelligence (AI), spotlighting the need for firms to navigate copyright laws carefully in AI applications. AI infringement issues are escalating as companies increasingly use copyrighted materials to train sophisticated algorithms without the creators’...

Sam Altman: NY Times Lawsuit Not a Priority for OpenAI
artificial intelligence // January 18, 2024

OpenAI’s chief executive is reportedly unconcerned about a lawsuit by The New York Times against his company. The newspaper sued OpenAI and partner Microsoft late last year, accusing the companies of copyright infringement and claiming they used its content without permission to develop their artificial intelligence product ChatGPT. Speaking Thursday...

Will AI’s Biggest Questions Find Their Answers This Year?
artificial intelligence // January 17, 2024

Technological innovations bring with them vast economic opportunities, but also an equal number of questions. These can include questions around their most effective use, questions around their impact both inside and outside of an organization, questions about their regulation and questions about their capabilities, to...

Sophisticated AI Systems Have Experts Rethinking Regulating Intellectual Property
artificial intelligence // December 27, 2023

The democratization of technology has led to, in some ways, the democratization of intellectual property (IP).  And artificial intelligence (AI) has supercharged this trend.  “We are fundamentally rethinking the boundaries between what does the platform, or what does the company take on, and what’s dictated...

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Navigating AI Copyright Presents Challenges for Industry

March 13, 2024
Authors are suing Nvidia for illegally using their materials to train its artificial intelligence (AI), spotlighting the need for firms to navigate copyright laws carefully in AI applications. AI infringement issues are escalating as companies increasingly use copyrighted materials to train sophisticated algorithms without the creators’ consent. Experts say the problem underscores the urgent need for […]

Sophisticated AI Systems Have Experts Rethinking Regulating Intellectual Property

December 27, 2023
The democratization of technology has led to, in some ways, the democratization of intellectual property (IP).  And artificial intelligence (AI) has supercharged this trend.  “We are fundamentally rethinking the boundaries...

Reshaping the Future: Why Gen AI’s Creative Power Calls for Strategic Oversight

December 26, 2023
With the widespread emergence of OpenAI’s large language model-based ChatGPT platform in late 2022, a considerable amount of public attention and private capital have been showered on generative artificial intelligence...

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OpenAI, Microsoft Face Copyright Lawsuit by Mother Jones Publisher CIR

June 27, 2024
The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), the nonprofit news organization that produces Mother Jones and Reveal, has sued OpenAI and that firm’s largest shareholder, Microsoft. CIR’s lawsuit alleges that the companies committed copyright violations, the nonprofit said in a Thursday (June 27) press release. “OpenAI and Microsoft started vacuuming up our stories to make their […]

Sam Altman: NY Times Lawsuit Not a Priority for OpenAI

January 18, 2024
OpenAI’s chief executive is reportedly unconcerned about a lawsuit by The New York Times against his company. The newspaper sued OpenAI and partner Microsoft late last year, accusing the companies of copyright infringement and claiming...

AI Can’t Patent Inventions, UK Supreme Court Rules

December 20, 2023
The British court has ruled that a scientist cannot patent inventions created by an AI. The ruling by the U.K. Supreme Court is a “landmark” decision in the U.K. about whether artificial...

Microsoft Offers Legal Protection for AI Users in Copyright Cases

September 10, 2023
Microsoft says it will provide some legal safeguards to customers using its AI.  The tech giant announced last week the launch of its Copilot Copyright Commitment, designed to protect artificial...