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On October 13th, the cultural and creative industries have become the key link in Japan's economy, where animations and cartoons have a global impact. On the other hand, OpenAI's blog for the launch of the Sora 2 Video Audio Generation Model contains several examples of Japanese animation. At a press conference this month, the Japanese Cabinet Office, which is responsible for areas such as intellectual property and the AI strategy, stated that it had made a request to OpenAI to refrain from violating copyright rights through the Department of Intellectual Property Strategy of the Cabinet Office. Downtown..

August 7, 2011 - Japanese newspaper news giant Yomiuri Shimbun filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court today, accusing U.S.-based generative AI search company Perplexity AI of infringing on its copyrights and requesting that the latter pay about 2.168 billion yen (note: the current exchange rate is about 106 million yuan). This is also the first time a major Japanese news organization has sued a generative AI company for unauthorized use of copyrighted material. In its complaint, the Yomiuri Shimbun states that Perplexity AI obtained and copied information from articles in the Yomiuri Shimbun Online...

June 26 - U.S. Federal Judge Vince Chhabria on Wednesday sided with Meta in a lawsuit filed by 13 authors (including Sarah Silverman.) The authors had accused Meta of illegally using their copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence models, but Judge Chhabria found, by way of summary judgment, that Meta's actions fell within the meaning of "fair use" under copyright law and were therefore legal. "fair use" and therefore legal. 1AI notes that this ruling comes just days after a federal judge ruled in favor of AI company Anthro...

April 30 - Freepik, in partnership with AI startup Fal.ai, has launched its latest open-source AI image model, F Lite, which is unique in that the model is based entirely on the company's in-house dataset of about 80 million commercially licensed and secure content (SFW). Freepik's move circumvents common legal risks and ensures the copyright security of the model's output. Officially, the model utilizes 10B parameter diffusion to provide users with a high-quality image generation experience. F Lite is available in two versions: the standard version (...

April 6 (Bloomberg) -- A new study appears to lend credence to allegations that OpenAI uses at least some of its copyrighted content to train its artificial intelligence models. 1AI notes that OpenAI is facing lawsuits filed by authors, programmers, and other copyright holders, with the plaintiffs accusing the company of using their work -- including books, code libraries, and more -- to develop its models without permission. While OpenAI has long claimed that it enjoys a fair use defense, the plaintiffs have argued that there is no exemption in U.S. copyright law for training data. ...

On April 2, the Guardian reported on March 31 that Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Moss, and Val McDermid were among the prominent authors who signed an open letter urging the British government to hold Meta accountable for using copyrighted books to train AI. The letter calls on the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lisa Nandy, to summon Meta executives to Parliament for questioning. Commenting on the reasons for signing, McDermid said, "The contract makes it clear that third parties must be paid for the use of an author's work. Whether it is an adaptation, translation or reproduction...

March 27 - ChatGPT's new AI image generator has been online for just one day, and social media is already flooded with Studio Ghibli-style AI-generated terpsichorean images. Studio Ghibli is a beloved Japanese animation studio that has produced hit movies like Totoro and A Thousand and One. In the past 24 hours, numerous Ghibli-style AI-created images have appeared on the web, including images of Elon Musk, Lord of the Rings, and Donald Trump.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has even switched his new avatar to...

March 17, 2011 - The recent introduction of Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash model has sparked controversy on social media. Users found that the model was able to remove watermarks from images, including those from well-known stock libraries such as Getty Images. Last week, Google expanded access to the Gemini 2.0 Flash model image generation feature. The feature allows models to natively generate and edit image content, and its capabilities are very powerful. However, the feature seems to lack the necessary restrictions.Gemini 2.0 ...

March 14, 2011 - Technology media outlet MacRumors published a blog post yesterday (March 13) reporting that OpenAI has submitted an AI development proposal to the U.S. government, calling for a relaxation of regulations that would allow AI companies to freely use copyrighted material to train AI models. In the proposal, OpenAI argues that current legal restrictions imposed by U.S. states hinder the ability of AI companies to innovate and diminish the quality of training data available to U.S. entrepreneurs. OpenAI proposes a "Copyright Strategy" that advocates for the freedom to...

February 26, according to foreign media The Verge reported that the major British newspapers today's cover used an identical protest image: a full-page blue page with the slogan "MAKE IT FAIR (Note: meaning 'fair treatment', but the typography cleverly incorporates the word AI)". (note: meaning 'fair treatment' but with the word AI cleverly incorporated into the typography)." The creative and media industries have reportedly joined forces to launch the Make It Fair initiative, a campaign against government proposals that would allow AI companies to use copyrighted work without authorization...

February 16 - The latest court documents filed in the multiple AI copyright lawsuits facing Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook's parent company) provide further evidence for rumors that the company had suspended negotiations with publishers over licensing AI training data. The documents relate to Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, one of many cases pitting AI companies against authors and other intellectual property holders. In most of these cases, the defendant (the AI company) claims to be within the copyright...

German music rights agency GEMA and India's ANI news agency filed lawsuits in their respective local courts on the 13th and 18th of this month, accusing OpenAI of using their content to train artificial intelligence models without permission. GEMA says it is the world's first class action organization to file a lawsuit against a provider of generative AI systems. The organization represents the copyrights of more than two million music rights holders worldwide, and is one of the largest associations of writers of musical works in the world. GEMA alleges that OpenAI's chat...

Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, was recently sued by a group of authors for using a large number of pirated books without authorization when training its popular chatbot Claude. The case is the first time that authors have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, although similar lawsuits have been filed against competitor OpenAI over the past year. Anthropic is a small company founded by former OpenAI leaders who bill themselves as a more responsible and safety-focused developer of generative AI models.

The Center for Investigative Journalism (CIR) in the United States has accused OpenAI and Microsoft of using copyrighted material to train their AI models. A complaint filed in federal court in New York claims that OpenAI has exploited CIR’s content without permission or payment. CIR’s CEO Monika Bauerlein highlighted the existential threat posed by AI tools that replace direct engagement with original content from Mother Jones and Reveal. According to Bauerle…

Recently, a heated debate about copyright has been set off in the field of artificial intelligence music. After being sued by the three major record companies Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music, AI music startup Udio issued a statement today, insisting that its model does not copy copyrighted works or artists' voices. In a statement released on the social media platform X, Udio emphasized that the goal of its model training is to cultivate an understanding of musical concepts. The company believes that these musical concepts are fundamental components of musical expression and do not belong to any individual or entity. Udio said that its system is explicitly designed to create music that reflects new musical concepts...

Tech giant Microsoft and its generative AI partner OpenAI are facing more lawsuits over the use of their chatbots ChatGPT and Copilot. According to The Verge, three US news websites - Raw Story, The Intercept and AlterNet - have filed lawsuits against the two companies, accusing their chatbots of plagiarizing news website articles for training. These news websites all said that OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT (Microsoft's Copilot)...