Tag: AI litigation

A coalition of YouTube creators has sued Amazon in a Seattle federal court, alleging the company used automated tools to download millions of videos without permission to train its Nova Reel generative‑AI model. The plaintiffs, which include Ted Entertainment—behind the H3 Podcast and h3h3 Productions—assert that Amazon’s scraping violated copyright law and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. They seek monetary damages and an injunction to halt the practice. Amazon has not commented as the case joins a wave of high‑profile lawsuits testing the limits of AI training and fair‑use defenses. Leggi di più

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the AI company used their copyrighted material to train its models and then generated responses that closely mirror their content. The complaint alleges that GPT‑4 "memorized" large portions of Britannica’s text and can reproduce near‑verbatim excerpts on demand, diverting traffic from the publishers’ sites. The case adds to a growing wave of legal actions by publishers seeking accountability for AI training practices, joining lawsuits from The New York Times and a settlement involving Anthropic. Leggi di più

Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam‑Webster have filed a copyright and trademark lawsuit against OpenAI in the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleges that OpenAI used thousands of the publishers’ articles as training data for ChatGPT and then generated responses that reproduce the content without permission, harming the publishers’ revenue and brand reputation. The case mirrors a prior suit against Perplexity and may be consolidated into a larger multidistrict litigation involving other news publishers. Leggi di più

The Walt Disney Company has issued a cease‑and‑desist letter to ByteDance, alleging that the company’s new generative‑AI tool, Seedance 2.0, incorporates Disney’s copyrighted characters without permission. Disney claims the AI model was trained on a “pirated library” of its intellectual property, citing examples that feature characters such as Spider‑Man, Darth Vader, and Peter Griffin. The dispute adds to a growing series of legal confrontations between Hollywood studios and AI developers, following earlier actions against Character.AI and Google, while Disney maintains a licensing partnership with OpenAI for the use of its content. Leggi di più

A German court has ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT breached national copyright law by training its language models on licensed musical works without permission. The lawsuit, filed by GEMA, the German music rights society, resulted in an order for OpenAI to pay undisclosed damages. OpenAI has expressed disagreement with the decision and is considering its next steps. GEMA hailed the ruling as a landmark precedent that reinforces authors' rights, while noting that OpenAI faces additional lawsuits from other creatives over similar concerns. Leggi di più

U.S. District Judge William Alsup has approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic, an artificial‑intelligence firm, and a group of authors who alleged the company used copyrighted books without permission. The deal requires Anthropic to pay $3,000 per covered work and includes a notification plan for authors. The case highlighted Anthropic’s reliance on shadow libraries such as LibGen and the systematic acquisition and scanning of used books. While the settlement resolves the current dispute, it underscores ongoing legal scrutiny of AI training data and copyright law. Leggi di più