(This post is co-authored with Sneha Jain, Partner, Saikrishna & Associates)
In Part 3 of the Series, we explored the output side of things - showing how if the output generated by the Generative AI model is substantially similar or a trivial alteration, or an adaptation in a different format...
The Recording Industry Association of America (“RIAA / Plaintiff”) filed two lawsuits against AI music generators, Suno and Udio (“the Platforms”), on behalf of record labels including Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group's UMG Recordings, and Warner Records Inc, and various others. These lawsuits, filed on June 24, 2024,...
(This post is co-authored with Sneha Jain, Partner, Saikrishna & Associates)
In the first two posts in this series, we addressed Copyright concerns raised by Generative AI, primarily at the stage of training the LLM as well as using certain datasets. In the first post, we considered whether storing copyrightable...
In a recent interim order in the case of Jaikishan Kakubhai Saraf alias Jackie Shroff v. The Peppy Store & Ors., the Delhi High Court safeguarded the personality and publicity rights of actor Jackie Shroff and has restrained various entities, including e-commerce stores, Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) chatbots, and social...
(This post is co-authored with Sneha Jain, Partner, Saikrishna & Associates)
Having first considered the question of whether storing copyrightable works for training purposes is reproduction that amounts to copyright infringement under Section 51 of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, in this second post of this series we will specifically...
(This post is co-authored with Sneha Jain, Partner, Saikrishna & Associates)
The scope of copyright liability of Generative AI (‘genAI’) models is a hot topic globally. Copyright issues that stem out of genAI technology can be categorized into four heads. All the litigations in the United States form a part...
Introduction
In December 2023, the European Union (“European Union”) took a significant step forward in addressing concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies. They reached a provisional agreement on the draft of the Artificial Intelligence Act on 2nd February, 2023 (“AI Act”). You can access the draft of...
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) recently on 15th March, 2024 issued a revised advisory concerning the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) models by Intermediaries.
This revised advisory was made to supersede a previous advisory issued on March 1, 2024, which, inter alia, required prior and explicit permission...
Background
The famous comedian and author Sarah Silverman (Silverman et al v. OpenAI, Inc. et al, 23-cv-3416), and the famous author Paul Tremblay (Tremblay et al v. OpenAI, Inc. et al, 23-cv-3223), also representing other authors, (“Authors”), had filed a lawsuit against tech giant OpenAI alleging that the company used...
