In the recent few months, artificial intelligence products such as Midjourney, Stability AI and ChatGPT have taken the forefront in terms of innovation in technology. These “AI Generative Tools” are designed to respond to text-based inputs and generate images, pictures or information. The tools can generate works that can...
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)
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...
AI-generated artwork has been on the rise for quite some time with varied experiments such as Walter Thompson’s The Next Rembrandt and Obvious’ Edmond De Balamy both of which required a sophisticated software specially designed for this purpose, a varied dataset and a collective of intellectuals all working towards...
(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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
