Lawyer Ex Machina #34: allergy season
AI
Some responses to the Copyright Office's revocation of copyright in portions of a comic book that included pictures created by an AI image generator:
A client alert written by copyright attorneys at Morrison Foerster on it
Correspondence between the attorney representing the artist of Zarya of the Dawn and the Copyright Office canceling the registration of the entire work.
A blog post by Van Lindberg, the attorney for artist Kristina Kashtanova, about the decision to revoke the copyright in the images generated by Midjourney.
Also, an update on five lawsuits involving copyright and artificial intelligence.
Stanford Law professors Mark Lemley & Bryan Casey propose the concept of “fair learning” for the use of copyrighted material to train machine learning models, to resolve and prevent copyright lawsuits brought in response to generative AI products.
The Congressional Research Service has written a short report on copyright and generative AI.
From the legislative front:
“As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology” [NY Times ($)]
The emergence of ChatGPT is prompting EU legislators to re-write new laws to regulate artificial intelligence.
“Lawmakers Experiment with ChatGPT to Write Bills”
From Bloomberg Law [($)]: As Attention on AI Increases, California Ramps Up Oversight
Blockchain
Molly White of Web3 is Going Great has a write-up of a reverse hack that whether the qualities of trustlessness and decentralization are still immutable concepts for blockchain technology.
The holding company for Silvergate Bank, which specializes in services for cryptocurrency companies, is winding down and returning deposits to customers.
Miscellaneous
An interesting op/ed from the New York Times ($): how reliable is digital evidence and how reliable do jurors assume digital evidence to be?
Reps. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) and David Cicilline (D-R.I.) have written a letter to Mark Zuckerberg questioning Meta's plans to allow teens (ages 13-17) to create user accounts on Horizon Worlds, its metaverse platform.
A class-action complaint has been filed in California state court against DoNotPay, alleging "unlawful, unfair, and/or fraudulent business practices." [Courthouse News | Complaint]