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The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement::The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that the companies’ artificial intelligence technology illegally copied millions of Times articles to train ChatGPT and other services to provide people with information – technology that now competes with the Times.

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[–] kromem@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Here's the author's bio:

Kit is a senior staff attorney at EFF, working on free speech, net neutrality, copyright, coders' rights, and other issues that relate to freedom of expression and access to knowledge. She has worked for years to support the rights of political protesters, journalists, remix artists, and technologists to agitate for social change and to express themselves through their stories and ideas. Prior to joining EFF, Kit led the civil liberties and patent practice areas at the Cyberlaw Clinic, part of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and previously Kit worked at the law firm of Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, litigating patent, trademark, and copyright cases in courts across the country.

Kit holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. in neuroscience from MIT, where she studied brain-computer interfaces and designed cyborgs and artificial bacteria.

The author is well aware of the legal side of things.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh I’m sure, and it was a good article to be clear. But “the legal side of things”, especially from a certain perspective, and what the courts (and then the legislature) do with a new-ish issue can be different things.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Kit worked at the law firm of Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, litigating patent, trademark, and copyright cases in courts across the country. Kit holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School"

The EFF is primarily a legal group and the post straight up mentions that it is a legal opinion on the topic.

So I'm not really clear what "the legal side of things" is that you mean separate from what a lawyer who has litigated IP cases before and works focused on the intersection of law and tech says about a pending case in a legal opinion.

Do you just mean a different opinion from different lawyers?

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I assume they mean that on topics not thoroughly tested in court, a judge can always make up their own mind based on how they personally feel.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Right, but how would that be reflected in another article ahead of time?