Court Docs Signal Biggest AI Copyright Battle Yet
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Newly unsealed court filings show OpenAI and Microsoft grappling with whether their AI systems were trained on publishers’ content without licenses, labeling the practice a potential “astonishing theft” and centering the four-factor fair-use test on license availability, paywalls, and the impact on journalism markets.
- Did OpenAI Pull Off the Biggest IP Heist of All-Time? The Hollywood Reporter
- Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History The New York Times
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal TechCrunch
- Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show The Washington Post
- AI Firms Knew Chatbots Were an ‘Existential Threat’ to Journalists, Court Docs Show CNET
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