ai and intellectual property

  1. Authors Sue Microsoft Over AI Training Using Pirated Books

    A group of authors, including Pulitzer Prize winners Kai Bird, Jia Tolentino, and Daniel Okrent, have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that the company used pirated digital versions of their books without permission to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model. The lawsuit...
  2. The Landmark NYT Lawsuit Against AI Giants: Implications for Copyright & Tech Innovation

    The collision of artificial intelligence and copyright law reached new levels of public scrutiny in late 2023, when The New York Times, one of the world’s most respected journalistic institutions, filed a landmark lawsuit against OpenAI and its high-profile collaborator, Microsoft. This legal...