Artists Score Major Win in Copyright Case Against AI Art Generators — “Artists suing generative artificial intelligence art generators have cleared a major hurdle in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit over the uncompensated and unauthorized use of billions of images downloaded from the internet to train AI systems, with a federal judge allowing key claims to move forward.”
Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’ — “‘But if nobody uses your product, it doesn’t matter that you stole all the content,’ Eric Schmidt said during a recent talk at Stanford that has been taken offline.”
Intel sued for copyright infringement over AI software — “Anaconda said in the lawsuit that more than one million companies have adopted its software for integrating different programs used to create AI platforms, which is free to use for individuals and small businesses. The complaint said that Intel’s license to Anaconda’s software expired and that Intel ignored Anaconda’s overtures to renew it.”
Kim Dotcom to be extradited to the US — “Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has lost his long battle to avoid extradition from New Zealand to the United States. A spokesperson for New Zealand Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith said he had signed an extradition order for Mr Dotcom on Thursday. US authorities have said he made his fortune from digital piracy on the now-defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, which he founded in 2005.”
Go Home: No “Prevailing Party” Status After Voluntary Dismissal Without Prejudice — “The Court reasoned that a defendant is not the prevailing party when a plaintiff’s action is voluntarily dismissed without prejudice under Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i). This is true regardless of whether a statute of limitations has expired. The Court explained that a defendant does not attain prevailing party status merely because, as a practical matter, a plaintiff is unlikely or unable to refile its claims. Instead, the district court itself must act to reject or rebuff the plaintiff’s claims.”