Historic ruling on 'fair use' and AI may help Nashville songwriters

This is the kind of news we’ve dreamed of," said Nashville Songwriters Association International's director. The legal battle ...
Tech Times

AI Training Fair Use Loses First Appellate Test; Generative AI Gets Explicit Carve-Out

AI training fair use meets its first U.S. appellate test: on September 29 the Third Circuit ruled that a non-generative AI ...

3rd Circ.'s AI Copyright Ruling Signals Traditional Fair Use Rules Still Apply

"Under ROSS’s framing, this case appears to concern the future of AI legal technology. But appearances can be deceiving. In ...

Unsealed opinion shows why Thomson Reuters won landmark AI fair-use ruling

The Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling unsealed on Wednesday that defunct legal-research company Ross Intelligence did not make fair use of Thomson Reuters' ...
Courthouse News Service

AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit

Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
contentgrip

Public relations examples: 10 real ways brands use PR

Public relations gets treated like a synonym for press coverage. That is too narrow. In practice, brands use PR to launch ...

Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs

While Microsoft stands to benefit enormously from such tax breaks, the community living around a 900-acre Granger data center ...
promarket.org

AI Exposes Flaws in Copyright’s Focus on Transformativeness in Fair Use

Shishene Jing is a fellow at the Thurman Arnold Project at the Yale School of Management and a former antitrust attorney with the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition's Technology ...
Chicago Tribune

Tribune, New York Times want ‘fair use’ argument rejected in copyright case against OpenAI, Microsoft

A Manhattan judge overseeing a major copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI received dueling summary judgment motions Friday, with news organizations including the Chicago Tribune ...
JD Supra

U.S. Government Backs Fair Use for AI Training in OpenAI Copyright Litigation

The U.S. government has filed a Statement of Interest of the United States of America under 28 U.S.C. § 517 in the Southern District of New York multidistrict litigation over OpenAI’s use of ...