Copyright Office Releases Part 2 of Artificial Intelligence Report — The eagerly anticipated report from the US Copyright Office was published this week. The entire report is worth a read for its detailed and careful analysis of issues related to the copyrightability of AI outputs, but at a high level, the Office concluded that “the outputs of generative AI can be protected by copyright only where a human author has determined sufficient expressive elements,” and “the case has not been made for changes to existing law to provide additional protection for AI-generated outputs.”
California Rep. Zoe Lofgren Introduces Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act To Block Sites Infringing On U.S. Copyrights — “Foreign digital piracy, she adds, presents a ‘massive and growing threat,’ costing American jobs, harming the creative community, and exposing consumers to dangerous security risks. The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act is a targeted approach that focuses on safety and intellectual property, while simultaneously upholding due process, respecting free speech, and ensuring enforcement is narrowly focused.”
LLM Taken Down Following Legal Pressure from Anti-Piracy Group — “In the ensuing months, takedown efforts persisted. Notably, these efforts expanded beyond datasets containing complete books, targeting the models trained on this data as well. Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has been active on this front and announced that, as a result, one of the largest Dutch LLMs ‘GEITje-7B‘ was taken offline as a result of their efforts. This LLM was trained on ‘Gigacorpus’ a dataset of books and texts previously targeted by BREIN, including a vast collection of Dutch texts and books, some of which contained copyrighted material sourced from the shadow library LibGen.”
OpenAI faces new copyright case, from global book publishers in India — “Indian book publishers and their international counterparts have filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI in New Delhi, a representative said on Friday, the latest in a series of global cases seeking to stop the ChatGPT chatbot accessing proprietary content.”
UK’s House of Lords votes to strengthen copyright protections in AI, dealing blow to government’s plans — “On Tuesday evening, the House of Lords — which has the final say on the passage of bills after they’ve been voted on in the House of Commons — voted 145 to 126 in favor of amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, aimed at strengthening copyright protections with respect to AI companies.”