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OpenAI and Microsoft face a class-action lawsuit by authors alleging copyright infringement for using their works in AI development. Filed by Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage, seeking up to $150,000 per infringement, the suit accuses the companies of utilizing written material without consent. This adds to OpenAI's prior legal battles with prominent authors and The New York Times, raising ethical concerns about AI's use in news creation and its potential impact on media and technology industries.

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Jan. 1 each year is public domain day, welcoming a new batch of works that lose copyright protection. This year, thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 will enter the United States’s public domain and be free for copying, sharing and remixing. Long-awaited works entering public domain this year include Disney’s “Steamboat Willie,” which features the…

Sarah Silverman, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates and other authors accused Meta on Monday of using their copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models despite warnings from the company’s legal team. The complaint, which consolidates two copyright cases against the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, alleges Meta used an online resource to train…

Lawsuits arrived almost as soon as generative AI programs debuted. The consequences could catch up to them next year.