Stability AI Executive Resigns in Protest of Unlicensed Use of Copyrighted Works


In the copyright settlement case of AI giant Anthropic, the plaintiff's legal team voluntarily reduced their lawyer fee request from $300 million to $187.5 million due to pressure from the court and the defendant. Previously, the high lawyer fees had caused controversy.
Multiple music publishers have sued Anthropic, accusing it of illegally downloading more than 20,000 copyrighted songs when training its AI model,涉嫌 large-scale copyright infringement.
Multiple YouTube creators have sued Snapchat, accusing it of using their channel videos to train commercial AI without permission. The dispute centers around the use of the HD-VILA-100M dataset, which is licensed only for academic research but has been used for commercial AI development, allegedly infringing on copyright. This marks the expansion of AI copyright disputes from text to the video domain.
Disney sent a legal notice to Character.AI, demanding removal of Mickey Mouse and other characters, citing copyright infringement. The characters were removed within 24 hours. Disney accused the company of exploiting its century-old brand reputation.....
In the U.S. legal community, copyright disputes related to artificial intelligence (AI) are escalating, and Thomson Reuters has recently won a preliminary victory in this copyright battle. The company sued the now-defunct legal research firm Ross Intelligence in 2020, accusing it of using materials from Thomson Reuters' legal platform Westlaw to train its AI model without authorization. According to the 3rd U.S. Circuit...