fair use
Coverage of fair use in the Nexus archive.
- AI giants learn what everyone else on the modern internet already knows
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google accuse competitors of harvesting their AI model outputs via 'distillation' to bypass costly research. The companies face criticism for mirroring their own past practices of scraping internet content without permission, creating a symmetrical ethical and legal dilemma.
- News outlets urge a judge to sanction OpenAI in a high-stakes AI copyright fight
News outlets including the New York Times and Daily News are urging a federal judge to sanction OpenAI for allegedly hiding evidence in a copyright infringement case. They claim OpenAI trained its AI systems using millions of news articles without permission, undermining the news industry. The case involves OpenAI's business partner Microsoft and challenges the company's use of 'fair use' defenses.
- News outlets urge a judge to sanction OpenAI in a high-stakes AI copyright fight
The New York Times, the Daily News, and other media outlets are urging a federal judge to sanction OpenAI for allegedly hiding evidence in a copyright infringement case. They claim OpenAI and Microsoft trained AI systems using millions of news articles without permission, violating copyright laws and harming the news industry.
- AI company argues its use of scraped Westlaw legal data was transformative
ROSS Intelligence, a defunct AI company, argued in a Third Circuit case that using 0.08% of Westlaw's headnotes to train its legal research AI was transformative, countering Thomson Reuters' copyright claims. A lower court ruled in favor of Reuters, but ROSS appeals, asserting its AI's ability to answer novel legal questions justifies fair use.