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A brief look at the copyright issues raised by generative AI

Ikigai Law

This brings up a myriad of intellectual property concerns. Getty, an image licensing service, has brought a lawsuit against the creators of art-generating AI “Stable Diffusion” in a US federal court, alleging that the tool unlawfully copied and processed millions of images, violating its copyright in the images. GitHub, Inc. [16]

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

2011) (citing to ProCD in rejecting preemption in the context of a Desny claim). The Internet is awash in lawsuits related to this collection of data. There is certainly an argument that the Ninth Circuit has adopted the logic of ProCD v. Zeidenberg. See Montz v. Pilgrim Films & Television, Inc. , 3d 975, 980 (9th Cir.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

Thousands of SAD Scheme lawsuits have been filed because the TROs take the online merchant off the marketplace entirely and usually extract some cash. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0

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