AI lawsuits and US copyright law - mid-July 2024 update

Details and a map on 28 active AI lawsuits in the USA as of July 14, 2024

If you’re following the legal wrangling over AI with interest, check out these two links, courtesy of Edward Lee via LinkedIn:

• Status of all 28 copyright suits v. AI (Jul 14 2024)

• Downloadable map view of the 28 active lawsuits in the USA

Lee is a law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology.

The host site chatgptiseatingtheworld.com for both of these links is a Wordpress blog that has frequent posts on legal issues relating to AI. Worth subscribing - or following Edward on LinkedIn - if this topic is your jam!

Map image from chatgptiseatingtheworld.com, shared as is under CC-BY-NC-ND.

A fundamental issue underpinning these lawsuits is concern about the “4Cs” (consent, control, credit, and compensation)¹ for the data and content that is processed to train and use the models. For more on the 4Cs in music and for AI in general, we invite you to subscribe to this

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Credit for the 4 Cs (consent, control, credit, compensation) phrasing goes to the Algorithmic Justice League (led by Dr. Joy Buolamwini).

Credit for the original 3 Cs (consent, credit, and compensation) belongs to CIPRI (Cultural Intellectual Property Rights Initiative) for their “3Cs' Rule: Consent. Credit. Compensation©.” 

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