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Reddit Challenges Anthropic’s Scraping to Create Generative AI Models (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy With as much scraping as is happening for AI training and enhancement these days, it’s amazing to me that there aren’t more lawsuits happening over scraping. Further, as Kieran notes, the TTC harm statement is also pretty weak in light of the Hamidi standard. __ Two other noteworthy points about this lawsuit.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

If the contract limits any action that copyright law restricts, meaning reproduction, distribution, adaptation, or public performance or display of works within the scope of copyright, it is preempted. However, it was sometimes not as clear as the case law of other circuits. A third approach?

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

Eric Goldman

Based on my reading of the case law, the Fourth and Eighth Circuits broadly follow this approach. Based on my reading of lower court opinions, to date, courts in the Third Circuit also seem to follow the case-by-case approach. 2019 WL 3555509 (D. were web scraping cases. If they are, it is preempted.

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Deploying Cutting-Edge Legal AI: Travers Smith’s Cautious, But Open-source Approach. (TGIR Ep. 216)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

And we potentially contaminate case law. But when you’ve got a decentralized process, like common law, where you’ve got a circuit court in the foothills of Wisconsin with one judge and one local solicitor. As these lawsuits get brought to open AI. And as you wrote in tonight, there’s 2019 law before LLMs became a thing.

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Deploying Cutting-Edge Legal AI: Travers Smith’s Cautious, But Open-source Approach. (TGIR Ep. 216)

Legal Tech Monitor

And we potentially contaminate case law. But when you’ve got a decentralized process, like common law, where you’ve got a circuit court in the foothills of Wisconsin with one judge and one local solicitor. As these lawsuits get brought to open AI. And as you wrote in tonight, there’s 2019 law before LLMs became a thing.

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

To fully understand these conflicting views of the majority opinion, it is necessary to understand both the specific facts of the case and the history of the Supreme Court’s case law concerning the fair-use doctrine. In April 2017, it filed a lawsuit against Goldsmith and her agency (now known as Lynn Goldsmith, Ltd.,

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Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast: Automated License Plate Readers with ACLU Attorney Matt Cagle

Berkley Technology Law Journal

It could be a stolen car, a car used in a crime, or the car of someone wanted for breaking the law. That increases the government’s ability, and specifically, in many cases, law enforcement ability to watch people, to watch list people, to bring the light weight of the criminal justice system and the carceral system down on people.

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