Thomson Reuters wins an early court battle over AI, copyright, and fair use — “Similar lawsuits against OpenAI, Microsoft, and other AI giants are currently winding their way through the courts, and they could come down to similar questions about whether or not the AI tools can claim a ‘fair use’ defense of using copyrighted material.”
News/Media Alliance Announces Industry Lawsuit Against AI Content Theft — “This suit alleges that Cohere, an AI company valued at over $5 billion, engaged in widespread unauthorized use of publisher content in developing and running its generative AI systems. Cohere’s behavior amounts to massive, systematic copyright infringement, as well as trademark infringement. The complaint provides a non-exhaustive list of thousands of articles that Cohere has infringed, through training, real-time use of content, and infringing outputs.”
This is the First-Ever AI Image to Be Granted Copyright Protection — “Invoke filed an application with the U.S. Copyright Office last year to register the piece, claiming rights for the selection, coordination, and arrangement of the inpainted components of the composite image, but not the individual AI-generated segments. Keirsey smartly used the office’s own guidelines which maintain that protection will only be afforded to works that have meaningful human authorship — purely AI-generated content will not be eligible. However, AI-generated content that contains evidence of a human’s creative choices can still qualify for protection.”
[Guest post] Copyright in fictional universes — “The question of whether or not copyright can subsist in fictional universe came to fruition in the case of Shazam v Only Fools the Dining Experience and Others [2022] EWHC 1379. While this case is renowned for granting the first character copyright to Only Fools and Horses protagonist Del Boy under UK law, presiding judge John Kimball’s ratio might go considerably further.”
AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds — “In the study, the BBC asked ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity to summarise 100 news stories and rated each answer. It got journalists who were relevant experts in the subject of the article to rate the quality of answers from the AI assistants.”