Lawsuits and legal issues over copyright continued to get a lot of attention this week, so I’m gathering those topics into their own post. The ‘virtual #0’ post is the relevant section from last week's roundup.

Four Core Claims

Who will win the case? Which of New York Times's complaints will be convincing?

Different people have different theories of the case.

Part of that is that there are four distinct allegations NYT is throwing at the wall.

Arvind Narayanan: A thread on some misconceptions about the NYT lawsuit against OpenAI. Morality aside, the legal issues are far from clear cut. Gen AI makes an end run around copyright and IMO this can’t be fully resolved by the courts alone.

As I currently understand it, NYT alleges that OpenAI engaged in 4 types of unauthorized copying of its articles:

The training dataset

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Outline:

(00:17) Four Core Claims

(01:17) Key Claim: The Training Dataset Contains Copyrighted Material

(05:00) Other Claims

(06:04) A Few Legal Takes

(10:15) What Can You Reproduce?

(14:16) How and How Often Are You Reproducing It?

(22:06) What Should the Rule Be?

(27:03) Image Generation Edition

(28:50) Compulsory License

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First published:
January 3rd, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9WD8nkqLTcd8YJPpT/copyright-confrontation-1

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Copyright Confrontation #1” by Zvi

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