Record Labels sue AI Platforms making Music: Universal, Sony, Warner v/s Suno, Udio.
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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,...
Indian Copyright Law and Generative AI: Part 4: Who is liable for infringing outputs?
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(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...
Imagine a future where the voice of a legendary singer, long deceased, is brought back to life to sing new songs. With the advent of AI voice cloning, this future is not just a possibility but a looming reality. This piece explores the implications of AI voice cloning in...
In Arijit Singh v. Codible Ventures LLP, the Bombay High Court restrained third parties, such as AI platforms, restaurants, merchandise sellers, virtual music events, etc., from violating the personality rights of the renowned Bollywood singer Arijit Singh.
These entities were restrained from using Arijit Singh’s name, voice / vocal style...
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...
US Court allows claims against text-to-image AI Companies : Sarah Anderson v. Stability AI
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INTRODUCTION
Sarah Anderson, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz, all artists, had sued Stability AI Ltd., DeviantArt, Inc., and Midjourney, Inc., claiming that their copyrighted works were unlawfully used to train AI platforms without permission.
On 30th October, 2023, the District Court of the United States ruled that the Plaintiffs' copyright claims...
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...
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...
If you listen to this song, it is easy to think that the song was made by Drake, but the truth is it wasn’t. That, was an AI generated song, uploaded a few months ago, and has since raised some important questions. How can we prevent AI from using...
(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...