Major tech giants like YouTube and OpenAI are backing a bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress, the NO FAKES Act, which aims to create new federal IP rights to protect against unauthorized AI deepfakes of people's voices and likenesses, aligning artists and tech on AI issues.
Major publishers like The New York Times and The Washington Post are running an ad campaign demanding that the US government hold tech companies accountable for AI content theft by mandating payment and attribution for copyrighted material used to train AI models.
In a closely watched case, a judge ruled that The New York Times' copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI's ChatGPT can proceed, allowing claims that the AI model was trained on copyrighted works, but dismissing some other claims.
As generative AI systems raise novel challenges around data privacy, scope, temporality, and autonomy that undermine traditional consent mechanisms, experts call for new frameworks involving collective governance, technical safeguards, and legal reforms to protect data rights in the AI era.
The New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI for up to $450 billion, claiming ChatGPT was trained on millions of its copyrighted articles, potentially reshaping AI training and journalism.
OpenAI faces a GDPR complaint from noyb over ChatGPT's ability to generate defamatory and false information about individuals, violating data accuracy principles, with demands to delete outputs, fine-tune the model, and impose fines.
Over 400 Hollywood stars, including directors, actors, and musicians, have rallied against OpenAI and Google's push for AI models to access copyrighted works freely, arguing it would undermine creative industries and jobs, urging these companies to negotiate licenses instead of seeking government exemptions.
The FTC sued Click Profit, an Amazon automation company, for defrauding customers of millions through a 'passive income' scam involving exaggerated earnings claims and misrepresenting its use of AI to manage online storefronts, despite customers failing to recoup investments.
While marketed as 'open,' many AI model licenses impose concerning restrictions on commercial use, sparking fears that providers could assert onerous clauses or revoke access, hindering widespread adoption and highlighting the need for truly open models without legal ambiguity.
A prominent legal expert cautions that Labour's proposed AI copyright reforms, which would allow AI companies to utilize copyrighted works without permission, likely violate the Berne Convention, an international treaty on copyright, potentially undermining UK creative industries and inviting legal challenges through judicial review.