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Artificial Intelligence Web Scraping Intellectual Property Protection

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

OECD Report on Data Scraping and AI – What Companies Can Do Now as Policymakers Consider the Issues

The power of large language models (LLMs) that enables generative AI derives from vast quantities of data. Much of this data comes from scraping all forms of content from the internet. Despite the benefits, this practice...more

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Social Links: If the Suit Fits

Character Technologies has been hit with two lawsuits, including a wrongful death suit (among other claims), in less than two months over its popular Character.ai chatbot. The first was filed in the U.S. District Court for...more

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Court Dismisses AI Scraping Claim, But Grants Leave to Amend

We have previously reported on the Jobiak case which raises the interesting issue of whether an AI-scraped job database is subject to copyright protection and is infringed. We were hoping that the court would make substantive...more

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Data scraping for AI development – still no progress in the TDM debate

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Image Alex Shandro It appears that the debate surrounding the UK’s Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception is about to reignite. TDM exceptions are key to assessing the legality of training generative AI models, and to...more

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District Court Adopts Broad View of Copyright Preemption in Data Scraping Case

The recent California district court decision dismissing the complaint in X Corp. v. Bright Data Ltd. could have significant implications for companies that rely on their terms of use to prohibit unauthorized “data scraping”...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Court to Decide Whether AI-scraped Job Database Is Subject to Copyright Protection and Is Infringed?

A pending lawsuit raises an interesting copyright infringement question – does scraping an AI-generated database of job listings constitute copyright infringement?...more

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Data Scraping, Privacy Law, and the Latest Challenge to the Generative AI Business Model

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In a putative class action filed on June 28, 2023, in the Northern District of California, and in other similar cases, plaintiffs allege that OpenAI, Microsoft, and their respective affiliates violated the privacy rights of...more

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AI and Copyright Law: Understanding the Challenges

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law appear to be on a collision course, with court cases and both executive and legislative activity poised to shape how copyright law will apply to AI development and uses. Recent...more

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The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Getty Images Sues Stability AI for Copyright Infringement

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Getty Images filed a lawsuit against startup tech company Stability AI for allegedly scraping more than 12 million photographs from Getty Images’ portfolio without consent. Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss this case on...more

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