Category: AI
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The Mouse and the Model: the Disney-OpenAI Deal
The other shoe has finally dropped. Today, December 11, 2025, OpenAI and Disney announced a partnership that essentially signals a marriage between generative AI and legacy media. Although some kind of deal…
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Copyright Winter is Coming (to Wikipedia?)
Judge Stein’s Order Denying OpenAI’s Motion to Dismiss in Authors Guild v. OpenAI, Inc., No. 25-md-3143 (SHS) (OTW) (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 27, 2025) A new ruling in Authors Guild v. OpenAI has major…
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Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence 2026 (save the date)
Emory Law is proud to host the 5th annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence on April 9-10, 2026, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence…
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Competition from AI music, Country Girls Make Do
As of October 2025, Suno and Udio are two text-to-music AI platforms that let users create full songs—including lyrics, vocals, and artwork—simply by entering text prompts. Some of this music is unappealing,…
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Skater Beagle and the Puzzle of AI Creativity
Generative AI poses a puzzle for copyright lawyers, and many others besides. How can a soulless mechanical process lead to the creation of new expression, seemingly out of nothing, or if not…
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Piracy, Proxies, and Performance: Rethinking Books3’s Reported Gains
A new NBER working paper by Stella Jia and Abhishek Nagaraj makes some stunning claims about the effects of pirated book corpora on large-language-model (LLM) performance. In Cloze Encounters: The Impact of…
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Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence (Summary Judgement)
In a closely watched decision revising a previous summary judgment, Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Third Circuit judge sitting by designation, sided largely with Thomson Reuters in its copyright dispute against ROSS Intelligence.…
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Book Review: Nick Seaver, Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation
(University of Chicago Press, 2022) In Computing Taste, Nick Seaver provides an ethnographic exploration of the world of music recommendation systems, revealing how algorithms are deeply shaped by the humans who design…
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A response to Lee and Grimmelmann
TIM LEE (@binarybits) and JAMES GRIMMELMANN have written an insightful article on “Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI” in Ars Technica and on Tim’s newsletter (https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-ai-community-needs-to-take-copyright).…