@AdamEisgrau
@adameisgrau.bsky.social
#FairUse fighter for @ChamberofProgress’ Generate & Create campaign. JD, Hill staffer, long-time tech wonk. Amateur photographer, jazz lover, art junkie, avid house plant killer.
BREAKING: A Munich Regional Court has just ruled that the text & data mining exception in Art 4 of the EU Copyright Directive doesn't apply to @OpenAI.com's model training, leaving it liable for model memorization and infringing outputs:🧵
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November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
BREAKING: A Munich Regional Court has just ruled that the text & data mining exception in Art 4 of the EU Copyright Directive doesn't apply to @OpenAI.com's model training, leaving it liable for model memorization and infringing outputs:🧵
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NDCA Judge Wm Alsup is very much still presiding over the preliminarily approved settlement in Bartz v @AnthropicAI.com and has just blasted counsel for making unilateral edits to the notice to be provided class plaintiffs, which he disallowed:
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
NDCA Judge Wm Alsup is very much still presiding over the preliminarily approved settlement in Bartz v @AnthropicAI.com and has just blasted counsel for making unilateral edits to the notice to be provided class plaintiffs, which he disallowed:
This week's UK High Court ruling for @StabilityAI.com in @Getty.com's © infringement suit authoritatively finds that gen AI models don't copy or store the works they're trained on; they transform them. That's big!
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
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My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
The High Court’s Getty v Stability AI Ruling: Landmark, Limited, or Both?: - Chamber of Progress
Earlier this week, Getty Images lost what was left of its United Kingdom copyright infringement case against Stability AI. While the commercial image giant
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November 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This week's UK High Court ruling for @StabilityAI.com in @Getty.com's © infringement suit authoritatively finds that gen AI models don't copy or store the works they're trained on; they transform them. That's big!
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
As reported (and AI-summarized) by @MLexclusive.com, © infringement suits v gen AI developers have now reached Denmark with @Suno.com now in a Scandinavian court.
See the 2d post in this 🧵 for a @Google translation of plaintiff rights group Koda's statement, provided by @MLexclusive:
See the 2d post in this 🧵 for a @Google translation of plaintiff rights group Koda's statement, provided by @MLexclusive:
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
As reported (and AI-summarized) by @MLexclusive.com, © infringement suits v gen AI developers have now reached Denmark with @Suno.com now in a Scandinavian court.
See the 2d post in this 🧵 for a @Google translation of plaintiff rights group Koda's statement, provided by @MLexclusive:
See the 2d post in this 🧵 for a @Google translation of plaintiff rights group Koda's statement, provided by @MLexclusive:
NEW CASE: Just as we were running out of cases to cover (NOT so much), comes @Entrepreneur.com Media to the rescue with a new NDCA suit v @Meta.com for direct and contributory © infringement +DMCA breach with a now familiar litany of claims:🧵
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
NEW CASE: Just as we were running out of cases to cover (NOT so much), comes @Entrepreneur.com Media to the rescue with a new NDCA suit v @Meta.com for direct and contributory © infringement +DMCA breach with a now familiar litany of claims:🧵
This week's UK High Court ruling for @StabilityAI.com in @Getty.com's © infringement suit authoritatively finds that gen AI models don't copy or store the works they're trained on; they transform them. That's big!
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
The High Court’s Getty v Stability AI Ruling: Landmark, Limited, or Both?: - Chamber of Progress
Earlier this week, Getty Images lost what was left of its United Kingdom copyright infringement case against Stability AI. While the commercial image giant
progresschamber.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This week's UK High Court ruling for @StabilityAI.com in @Getty.com's © infringement suit authoritatively finds that gen AI models don't copy or store the works they're trained on; they transform them. That's big!
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
Zoom! Judge Chhabria's wasted not a moment in approving the parties' request for a roughly one-month extension to process new info that came to light in discovery per my post below. Order just issued!
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November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Zoom! Judge Chhabria's wasted not a moment in approving the parties' request for a roughly one-month extension to process new info that came to light in discovery per my post below. Order just issued!
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Interesting find in the discovery weeds of the Kadrey case. @Meta.com's found more info re "torrenting" which it's pursuing so it can be fully disclosed. Noting that will take a time, the parties jointly have proposed a one-month calendar bump mostly in summary judgment filings:
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Interesting find in the discovery weeds of the Kadrey case. @Meta.com's found more info re "torrenting" which it's pursuing so it can be fully disclosed. Noting that will take a time, the parties jointly have proposed a one-month calendar bump mostly in summary judgment filings:
BREAKING: @Salesforce.com faces a new class action Complaint for © infringement by author Tasha Alexander much like that in Tanzer filed 3 weeks ago. Both claim direct © infringement for downloading pirated copies of books to train a gen AI model and market displacement: 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
BREAKING: @Salesforce.com faces a new class action Complaint for © infringement by author Tasha Alexander much like that in Tanzer filed 3 weeks ago. Both claim direct © infringement for downloading pirated copies of books to train a gen AI model and market displacement: 🧵
Last August, a settlemenmtwas reached in Vacker v @ElevenLabs.com and further proceedings were stayed. It's now official; case closed:
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November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Last August, a settlemenmtwas reached in Vacker v @ElevenLabs.com and further proceedings were stayed. It's now official; case closed:
www.courtlistener.com/docket/6911...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/6911...
@DCNorg.org: if you're going to blast (doc on left) a serious policy proposal (doc on right) you should *read* it first.
@ProgressChamber.org didn't ask POTUS to "declare" AI-training fair use; we urged him to have DoJ defend fair use in "all appropriate" AI cases.
"Radical"? No...🧵👀
@ProgressChamber.org didn't ask POTUS to "declare" AI-training fair use; we urged him to have DoJ defend fair use in "all appropriate" AI cases.
"Radical"? No...🧵👀
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@DCNorg.org: if you're going to blast (doc on left) a serious policy proposal (doc on right) you should *read* it first.
@ProgressChamber.org didn't ask POTUS to "declare" AI-training fair use; we urged him to have DoJ defend fair use in "all appropriate" AI cases.
"Radical"? No...🧵👀
@ProgressChamber.org didn't ask POTUS to "declare" AI-training fair use; we urged him to have DoJ defend fair use in "all appropriate" AI cases.
"Radical"? No...🧵👀
14 leading © scholars have just filed a pointed amicus brief w/ SCOTUS urging it to order the US @CopyrightOffice to grant Dr. Stephen Thaler a © in the wholly AI-generated work below: "A Recent Entrance to Paradise"....
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November 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
14 leading © scholars have just filed a pointed amicus brief w/ SCOTUS urging it to order the US @CopyrightOffice to grant Dr. Stephen Thaler a © in the wholly AI-generated work below: "A Recent Entrance to Paradise"....
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CDCA Judge John A. Kronstadt's presiding over both @Disney.com's and @WarnerBros.com's currently separate recent ©/gen AI suits against @Midjourney.com. The parties, however, have just stipulated to their consolidation "for all purposes":
November 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
CDCA Judge John A. Kronstadt's presiding over both @Disney.com's and @WarnerBros.com's currently separate recent ©/gen AI suits against @Midjourney.com. The parties, however, have just stipulated to their consolidation "for all purposes":
.@Nvidia has pushed back hard against multiple authors' efforts to dramatically expand their © infringement claims against the company:
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
.@Nvidia has pushed back hard against multiple authors' efforts to dramatically expand their © infringement claims against the company:
.@Perplexity has just moved to "edit" the © Complaint against it by @Britannica and @MerriamWebster... 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
.@Perplexity has just moved to "edit" the © Complaint against it by @Britannica and @MerriamWebster... 🧵
Case dismissed! Guess that settlement and partnership deal were real!
The case is, oops *was* ...
UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Uncharted Labs, Inc., 1:24-cv-04777, (S.D.N.Y.)
www.courtlistener.com/docket/6887...
The case is, oops *was* ...
UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Uncharted Labs, Inc., 1:24-cv-04777, (S.D.N.Y.)
www.courtlistener.com/docket/6887...
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Case dismissed! Guess that settlement and partnership deal were real!
The case is, oops *was* ...
UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Uncharted Labs, Inc., 1:24-cv-04777, (S.D.N.Y.)
www.courtlistener.com/docket/6887...
The case is, oops *was* ...
UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Uncharted Labs, Inc., 1:24-cv-04777, (S.D.N.Y.)
www.courtlistener.com/docket/6887...
@AnthropicAI.com's hoping to defeat CMG's claim of 2dary © infringement by its outputs by, they hope, being able to document that plaintiffs hadto "torture" its models many, many times to produce output substantially similar to training inputs. This discovery ruling should help:
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
@AnthropicAI.com's hoping to defeat CMG's claim of 2dary © infringement by its outputs by, they hope, being able to document that plaintiffs hadto "torture" its models many, many times to produce output substantially similar to training inputs. This discovery ruling should help:
Thanks again to @ednewtonrex for the chance to set the record straight about fair use and the real reason why US © law is such a driver of our info economy.
Bottom line: it's NOT about the bottom line here and never was!
Feist, 111 S. Ct. 1282 (1991):
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Bottom line: it's NOT about the bottom line here and never was!
Feist, 111 S. Ct. 1282 (1991):
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November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Thanks again to @ednewtonrex for the chance to set the record straight about fair use and the real reason why US © law is such a driver of our info economy.
Bottom line: it's NOT about the bottom line here and never was!
Feist, 111 S. Ct. 1282 (1991):
x.com/AdamEisgrau...
Bottom line: it's NOT about the bottom line here and never was!
Feist, 111 S. Ct. 1282 (1991):
x.com/AdamEisgrau...
BREAKING IN THE UK: @GettyImages.com, @MLex.com reports, has lost its remaining © claims v @StabilityAI.com in Britain's High Court. Fair Use, a US construct, doesn't apply but the idea of "transformativeness" may de facto figure in the ruling, though not by that name or by statute...🧵⏬...
November 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
BREAKING IN THE UK: @GettyImages.com, @MLex.com reports, has lost its remaining © claims v @StabilityAI.com in Britain's High Court. Fair Use, a US construct, doesn't apply but the idea of "transformativeness" may de facto figure in the ruling, though not by that name or by statute...🧵⏬...
Not sure what other companies are taking notes, but pretty sure it's more then one ...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Not sure what other companies are taking notes, but pretty sure it's more then one ...
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On 10/8 J. Stein heard motions for 4 hrs in In re @OpenAI.com Copyright Infringement Litigation. He wasn't sympathetic to defendants' per my 3d "takeaway" below. Citing his comments from the bench, he just ruled gaainst their bid to narrow the Complaint
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October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
On 10/8 J. Stein heard motions for 4 hrs in In re @OpenAI.com Copyright Infringement Litigation. He wasn't sympathetic to defendants' per my 3d "takeaway" below. Citing his comments from the bench, he just ruled gaainst their bid to narrow the Complaint
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ALSO BREAKING: Lest it be lost in publication of the @UdioMusic.com deal, UMG **also** announced this AM that it's also strategically allied in apparently the same way with @StabilityAI.com, wh/ it had *not* sued but @GettyImages.com and others have.
www.prnewswire.com/news-releas...
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UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND STABILITY AI ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE TO CO-DEVELOP PROFESSIONAL AI MUSIC CREATION TOOLS
/PRNewswire/ -- Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment and Stability AI, the leading independent multi-modal generative AI...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
ALSO BREAKING: Lest it be lost in publication of the @UdioMusic.com deal, UMG **also** announced this AM that it's also strategically allied in apparently the same way with @StabilityAI.com, wh/ it had *not* sued but @GettyImages.com and others have.
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3 TAKEAWAYS on @UdiioMusic.com/UMG Deal:
1) INEVITABLE: when an unstoppable tech force meets a money-machine, actually nothing has to give; they just have to partner ....
roboticsandautomationnews.com/2025/10/30/...
1) INEVITABLE: when an unstoppable tech force meets a money-machine, actually nothing has to give; they just have to partner ....
roboticsandautomationnews.com/2025/10/30/...
World’s largest music company to release AI music from now on
Universal Music Group (UMG) – the world’s largest music company and whose catalogue includes Taylor Swift (main picture), ABBA, Bon Jovi, Frank Sinatra, Ariana Grande, and thousands of other world-…
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October 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
3 TAKEAWAYS on @UdiioMusic.com/UMG Deal:
1) INEVITABLE: when an unstoppable tech force meets a money-machine, actually nothing has to give; they just have to partner ....
roboticsandautomationnews.com/2025/10/30/...
1) INEVITABLE: when an unstoppable tech force meets a money-machine, actually nothing has to give; they just have to partner ....
roboticsandautomationnews.com/2025/10/30/...
BREAKING: UMG SETTLES with UDIO -- Universal Music Group has settled its © infringement litigation v Uncharted Labs, maker of @UdioMusic.com, as part of a new strategic alliance that will bring powerful new UMG-content enabled AI tools to content creators:
www.prnewswire.com/news-releas...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
BREAKING: UMG SETTLES with UDIO -- Universal Music Group has settled its © infringement litigation v Uncharted Labs, maker of @UdioMusic.com, as part of a new strategic alliance that will bring powerful new UMG-content enabled AI tools to content creators:
www.prnewswire.com/news-releas...
www.prnewswire.com/news-releas...
@UdioMusic.com's just been granted an extra 3 weeks by presiding SDNY Judge Hellerstein, until 12/1, to file its Answer to plaintiff Anthony Justice's newly-authorized and filed Amended Complaint:
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
@UdioMusic.com's just been granted an extra 3 weeks by presiding SDNY Judge Hellerstein, until 12/1, to file its Answer to plaintiff Anthony Justice's newly-authorized and filed Amended Complaint: