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Technology · 2023

AI Copyright Lawsuits

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Getty Images sued Stability AI; a class of artists sued Midjourney and DeviantArt; The New York Times sued OpenAI. The cases force courts to decide whether training on copyrighted work is transformative use, a question that will settle, legally, what an "influence" is and whether the history of art's borrowings were property theft all along.

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Jason M. Allen, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, 2022, made with Midjourney. The U.S. Copyright Office refused to register it. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
AI Copyright Lawsuits (2023) · Ellsworth