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By Manav Das — The U.S. Open tennis championships are currently underway in New York, with the main draw starting on a Sunday for the first time. In the singles competition, top players like Emma Raducanu, Novak Djokovic, and Aryna Sabalenka are headlining the early rounds. Amidst the on-court action, intellectual property (IP) remains a…
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By Joshua Rich — In the lawsuit brought against them for using visual artists' work to teach their large language model, and producing near-identical copies in response to prompts, Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway AI moved to dismiss almost all of the claims asserted against them. Those claims include copyright infringement, violations of the…
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By Michael Borella and Joshua Rich— After floating a discussion draft last fall, a bipartisan group of Senators formally introduced the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act of 2024 ("the NO FAKES Act" or "the Act") on July 31, 2024. The Act is remarkable not only because its sponsors span the ideological…
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By Michael Borella and Joshua Rich — It seems like every week brings a new dispute over artificial intelligence (AI), mostly focused around new features and uses of generative AI. Last week was no exception, with OpenAI unveiling human-like voices soon being available in its GPT-4o multimodal language model. In what would turn out to…
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By Andrew Velzen — On January 19, 2024, Palworld launched into early access on Xbox and Windows. To say it was an overnight success is an understatement. By only a month in, Palworld had been played by over 25 million players.[1] To put this in perspective, monumental success stories like The Legend of Zelda: Tears…
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