AI copyright controversy

Recently, NVIDIA was sued by a class of three fiction authors over the alleged use of copyrighted works in the training process of its AI platform NeMo. The plaintiffs, including Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan, claim that their work was included in a dataset that NVIDIA used to simulate ordinary written language,...

Recently, Patronus AI, which focuses on evaluating large-scale language models (LLMs), released an attention-grabbing report. The report states that OpenAI's GPT-4 model is filled with a large amount of copyrighted content, accounting for a whopping 441 TP3 T. This finding has sparked a wide-ranging discussion about the use of copyrighted material in AI models. In order to measure...

In a new twist to the highly publicized New York Times v. OpenAI and Microsoft copyright infringement case, OpenAI, in a Feb. 26 filing in U.S. federal court, refuted seven copyright lawsuit allegations made by The New York Times and accused the latter of hiring hackers to obtain evidence...

Recently, Adweek reported that Google is working on a partnership deal with select publishers to create news content using advanced generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The program is considered part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), which aims to help news organizations by providing them with various resources such as media literacy programs,...

Recently Google faced a patent lawsuit involving AI technology in Boston, USA, with the plaintiff being Singular Computing, a company founded by Massachusetts computer scientist Joseph Bates. Singular Computing is accusing Google of infringing its patents, claiming that Google copied their technology and used it...

OpenAI recently announced that they are in talks with dozens of publishers to secure licenses to use news articles for training their big language models. The move is an attempt to resolve a copyright dispute with The New York Times and ensure the legitimacy of the use of their AI technology. In negotiations with publishers, Open...

The Beijing Internet Court recently concluded a case on the copyright of AI-generated images, clarifying the attributes of AI-generated images as "works" and the identity of users as "creators". This is China's first copyright case on AI "text-generated images". In this case, the plaintiff used the AI tool Stable Diffusion to generate...

The Korean government recently made it clear that AI-generated content will not be protected by copyright. This decision was made in order to avoid copyright issues from creating a barrier to the widespread use of AI technology and to promote South Korea as a powerhouse in the copyright industry. South Korean Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoo In-chun published "Four Strategies for Realizing a Powerful Copyright Nation" in...

The New York Times recently filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement and misuse of intellectual property. According to reports, the NYT believes that Microsoft and OpenAI illegally copied and used millions of the newspaper's articles while training its Large Language Model (LLM), and are now directly competing with the newspaper. This incident...