GenAI and copyright: Court dismisses almost all claims against OpenAI in authors’ suit

Plaintiff authors sued large language model provider OpenAI and related entities for copyright infringement, alleging that plaintiffs’ books were used to train ChatGPT. Plaintiffs asserted six causes of action against various OpenAI entities: (1) direct copyright infringement, (2) vicarious infringement, (3) violation of Section 1202(b) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), (4) unfair competition [...]

By |2024-03-14T21:25:44-05:00February 14th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Infringement|Comments Off on GenAI and copyright: Court dismisses almost all claims against OpenAI in authors’ suit

Does a human who edits an AI-created work become a joint author with the AI?

If a human edits a work that an AI initially created, is the human a joint author under copyright law? U.S. copyright law (at 17 U.S.C. § 101) considers a work to be a "joint work" if it is made by two or more authors intending to mix their contributions into a single product. So, [...]

By |2023-07-08T15:27:47-05:00July 8th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Copyright|Comments Off on Does a human who edits an AI-created work become a joint author with the AI?
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