Wikimedia urges courts to split AI training from chatbot copying
In an amicus brief, Wikimedia says unlicensed LLM pre-training can be fair use, but query answers that replace the source need a license.
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OpenAI cites briefs defending fair use for AI training
The post frames The New York Times copyright suit as seeking to discard longstanding fair-use doctrine for model training.
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
Unsealed filings in the New York Times' copyright lawsuit show OpenAI and Microsoft internally acknowledged AI scraping harms publishers and the web.
AI training built on fair use looks shaky when the companies' own people call it "astonishing theft"
NYT and media plaintiffs cite internal OpenAI and Microsoft emails and sworn testimony to challenge fair use in a consolidated copyright suit seeking billions.
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
Unsealed New York Times v. OpenAI filings show executives admitting LLMs were trained on copyrighted content and are gutting publishers' traffic.
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Unsealed filings in the NYT-led copyright suit reveal Microsoft and OpenAI executives internally called news scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'.
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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
Unredacted filings in the New York Times v. OpenAI and Microsoft copyright case reveal internal admissions calling AI training data scraping 'theft'.
Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement
Authors report publishers and agents wrongly claiming shares of Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement, which pays $3,000 per pirated work across roughly 500,000 titles.
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Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
Microsoft files summary judgement briefs in NYT copyright lawsuit, arguing only 59,545 of 8.2M Copilot logs show substantial overlap with news content.