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The U.S. Copyright Office just released a “pre-publication” version of its series on AI and Copyright. The Register of Copyrights pre-publication report, entitled, Generative AI Training, contained the statement that it was “released in response to congressional inquiries and expressions of interest … Read more »

AI is a wonderful tool that can help lawyers with their practices. We may even soon reach the point where it would be professional negligence not to use AI in some ways for providing legal services. But, while AI is powerful, it sometimes hallucinates. While these episodes are decreasing as the AI m … Read more »

Copyright lawyers and copyright lovers: I once again presented the “Copyright Year in Review” to ALAI Canada.  This year had some particularly interesting caselaw developments including cases on copyright subsistence and ownership, infringement, defenses and remedies. As in prior years, there were a … Read more »

It was a busy week in AI copyright litigation in the United States with three new decisions released in litigation involving Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft. One involved a failed attempt by music publishers to obtain an injunction against Anthropic from using lyrics to train its AI system, Claude. … Read more »

Content generated entirely using artificial intelligence and with no human control over the expression generated cannot be protected by copyright. In short, an author must be a human being. This unsurprising conclusion was confirmed again by a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Thaler v Permultter No. … Read more »