Category Archives: Copyright Battles

What top IP lawyers say about the New York Times’s copyright case against OpenAI

  By Mark Sullivan January 09, 2024 AI is transitioning from a 2023 electrified by ChatGPT to a 2024 when the tech industry and the Fortune 500 will try to make new “transformer” based language models perform meaningful work and create real value. But that transition could be seriously slowed because of the way AI … Continue reading What top IP lawyers say about the New York Times’s copyright case against OpenAI

Court Sides With Sen. Warren In Battle Over Anti-Vax Book

Court Sides With Sen. Warren In Battle Over Anti-Vax Book by Wendy Davis  @wendyndavis, May 4, 2023 Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) used “strong rhetoric” when writing to Amazon about the anti-vaccine book “The Truth About COVID-19,” but didn’t violate the First Amendment by crossing the line from attempted persuasion to coercion, a federal appellate court … Continue reading Court Sides With Sen. Warren In Battle Over Anti-Vax Book

Internet Archive violated publisher copyrights by lending ebooks, court rules

Book publishers sue Internet Archive for allegedly enabling piracy   Christine Fisher @cfisherwrites When libraries around the US began closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Internet Archive (IA) responded by creating a “National Emergency Library,” a collection of 1.4 million books from its free e-book repository Open Library. Publishers immediately took issue … Continue reading Internet Archive violated publisher copyrights by lending ebooks, court rules