This week, the judge in the Anthropic copyright case expressed skepticism over the $1.5 Billion settlement offer, especially considering the damages are estimated to be over $1 Trillion. I liked Cathy Gellis’ article about her amicus brief in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, addressing platform liability for copyright infringement. Finally, Warner Bros. sued Midjourney…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Links for Week of September 5, 2025
This week, Google got some good news in its antitrust case that they would not need to sell off its Chrome web browser. Security expert Bruce Schneier had a good series of posts about security risks of AI models, they are vulnerable to injection attacks. Finally, via GeekPress, a restaurant has an unusual AI hallucination…
Links for Week of August 29, 2025
This week, news broke that a settlement is near in the case multiple authors brought against Anthropic for the use of their copyrighted works in training the AI model. A wrongful death lawsuit was brought by the parents of a teen who committed suicide, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged the teen to do so. I have…
Links for Week of August 15, 2025
This week, Meta has apparently backtracked on its rules regarding interactions between minors and their chatbots. Also, thanks to some bad actors who like to scrape Reddit to train their AI models, Reddit had to stop allowing the Internet Archive from covering Reddit. Those AI firms were blocked from scraping Reddit, and so they turned…
Links for Week of August 1, 2025
This week, Meta was accused of torrenting porn to train its AI models, per a new lawsuit. I liked Professor Guadamuz’s post on Copyright and AI in the UK. Finally, I see that Professor Grimmelmann updated his Information Property textbook, and Professor Goldman updated his Internet Law casebook. Both are great resources. Meta Torrenting Allegations…
Links for Week of July 25, 2025
This week, the White House unveiled its AI Action Plan. Further, it sounds like Tik Tok will not be getting more extensions from President Trump if they do not agree to his plan. Finally, in a guest post by Tyler Ochoa, President Trump’s lawsuit over the “Trump Tapes” book by Bob Woodward was dismissed. AI…
Links for Week of July 4, 2025
This week, I liked Corynne McSherry and Katharine Trendacosta’s article on the NO FAKES Act. Professor Goldman issued a post about the Supreme Court’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. Finally, Cloudflare announced this week that it will begin charging AI crawlers. Posting will be light for the next two weeks due to external…
Links for Week of June 27, 2025
This week, Anthropic’s use of copyrighted works to train its Claude AI model was ruled a fair use. Further, the court documents revealed that they destroyed millions of books to do so. In another fair use case, this time with Meta, Llama’s use of copyrighted works was adjudged to be fair use. However, it may…
Links for Week of June 6, 2025
This week, there were two nice guest posts on Professor Goldman’s blog, one on the New York Times v. Microsoft/Open AI copyright ruling by Kieran McCarthy, and one on the Take It Down Act by Professor Jess Miers. Finally, we heard that Anthropic’s CEO is against the 10-year freeze on state AI laws currently within…
Links for Week of May 30, 2025
This week, I liked Tori Noble, Mitch Stoltz, and Corynne McSherry’s article at Techdirt analyzing the Copyright Office’s recent guidance on fair use and AI. The FTC’s monopoly trial against Meta ended this week, with a ruling expected by the end of the year. Finally, Getty Images reported that it is too expensive to pursue…