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,...
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...
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)
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...
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...
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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...
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...
