The penultimate draft of the European Union’s AI Code of Practice has a blind spot: it only limits copyright compliance requirements to web crawling. This narrow focus ignores other data collection methods—such as torrenting—potentially creating loopholes in AI training data regulations.

Source: Is Web Scraping the Only Copyright Concern for AI? – Open Future

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected OpenAI’s request to toss out a copyright lawsuit from The New York Times that alleges that the tech company exploited the newspaper’s content without permission or payment. In an order allowing the lawsuit to go forward, Judge Sidney Stein, of the Southern District of New York, narrowed the scope of the lawsuit but allowed the case’s main copyright infringement claims to go forward.

Source: Judge allows ‘New York Times’ copyright case against OpenAI to go forward

As reported earlier today (March 26), a federal judge in California shot down a request from UMG and the other music publishers (including Concord and ABCKO) to block the AI company from using song lyrics to train its AI models. Importantly, the court did, however, issue two separate but related discovery orders on March 25 – granting Universal and the other publisher plaintiffs significant investigative tools to potentially improve their legal arguments.

Source: Music publishers ‘remain very confident’ of winning Anthropic case and will ‘vigorously pursue’ monetary damages

The industry bodies demand that AI developers obtain proper licenses before using copyrighted works to train their models. They point to precedents like OpenAI’s licensing agreements with media companies such as ShutterStock and the Financial Times as a positive model. The recommendation emphasizes that licensing of AI training creates a “symbiotic relationship” between rights owners and AI developers.

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