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The Government of India has released a landmark working paper proposing a new policy framework to regulate the use of copyright-protected works for training Generative AI systems. The draft, prepared by a committee formed by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), examines whether existing copyright laws adequately address challenges posed by AI technologies and recommends a hybrid statutory licensing model to balance innovation needs with creator rights.

Source: DPIIT releases working paper on copyright and AI, proposes hybrid licensing model

Billboard owner Penske Media has fired off an amended antitrust lawsuit against Google over its AI search results and training. The company is accusing Google of leveraging its search “monopoly” by effectively compelling publishers to consent to providing content for AI summaries and training. With the ill-advised alternative being to exit Google’s search results outright, publishers are allegedly “caught between either permitting Google’s [AI features] underpayment or suffering existential search traffic declines.”

Source: Penske Media Slaps Google With Amended Antitrust Lawsuit

OpenAI may soon be forced to explain why it deleted a pair of controversial datasets composed of pirated books, and the stakes could not be higher. At the heart of a class-action lawsuit from authors alleging that ChatGPT was illegally trained on their works, OpenAI’s decision to delete the datasets could end up being a deciding factor that gives the authors the win.

Source: OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets

 OpenAI must produce millions of anonymized chat logs from ChatGPT users in its high-stakes copyright dispute with the New York Times and other news outlets, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled. U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona Wang in a decision made public on Wednesday that the 20 million logs were relevant to the outlets’ claims and that handing them over would not risk violating users’ privacy.

Source: OpenAI loses fight to keep ChatGPT logs secret in copyright case

The newspaper alleged Perplexity AI had distributed and displayed journalists’ work without permission en masse. The Times said that Perplexity AI was also violating its trademarks under the Lanham Act, claiming the startup’s generative AI products create fabricated content, or “hallucinations”, and falsely attribute them to the newspaper by displaying them alongside its registered trademarks.

Source: New York Times sues AI startup for ‘illegal’ copying of millions of articles