MThe subject ATT is no stranger to the taking of powerful people. Before representing writing rooms such as The Intercept, Raw Story and Altert in a historic trial against Openai, he was a civil dispute lawyer working on questions ranging from police brutality to the representation of inventors seeking to protect their patents.
While Topic launched his trial two months after a case of copyright similar to the New York TimesHis approach is different. Above all, if it succeeds, it could create a precedent that protects each online publisher and their archives.
Publications inherited like New York TimesWho still has a printed product, protect their copyright by sending copies of their physical newspaper to the Office of American Rights and paying a single cost once a month, explains subject. THE TimesThe copyright trial is based on the protection granted by the documents deposited in the office. But until recently, it was more difficult for digital publications“Far from the dominant way, people consume news – to record their copyright in the same way because they had to pay to record each individual article. It was an expensive company for an organization that frequently published. In August, the Copyright Office modified its rules to allow online publishers to group the content of the registration, but the publishers who decide to record previous items, which can already appear in OpenAi data sets, may not be able to retroactively claim all the advantages granted by the registration.
The LOEVY & LOEVY trial for these online publishers takes another path using the copyright law of the Digital Millennium, a first Internet Age law, intended to protect the owners of rights from their online content without their permission. (Some may be familiar with the law of anti-piratorship warnings on the Blue scale on DVDs in the early 2000s).
The law specifically protects people from identification information, such as the name or title of an author, eliminated from reproductions of their work, like Loevy & Loevy, alleys Openai before entering this material in its training sets. But data identification was not easy. The training sets for large languages are enormous and difficult to analyze, says to delete. (Openai did not respond to a request for comments.)
But the issues, reiterating the subject, are high. “AI is already moving human journalism with AI garbage. It’s bad for society, democracy and news publishers – it is an existential threat to news, ”adds subject.