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TechdirtNov 3, 2026

Rewriting Copyright Law For Generative AI Would Hurt Everyone

In courts across the country, publishers and creators are suing large AI companies for training generative AI models on copyrighted works. It’s easy to see these cases as a David-and-Goliath showdown between authors and publishers fighting for a cut of Big Tech company profits. But this fight is actually much larger. It affects billions of...

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TechdirtNov 2, 2026

The OpenAI Copyright Case Has Drawn A Mountain Of Amicus Briefs. We Sorted Them For You.

Last week Cathy wrote about the amicus brief we filed in the big multi-district litigation (MDL) that consolidated a bunch of different lawsuits claiming that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed the plaintiffs’ copyrights by training AI models on their works. A lot of people and groups offered proposed amicus briefs. For boring procedural reasons, unlike in...

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TechdirtOct 30, 2026

Wherein The Copia Institute Tells SDNY That AI May Have Problems But So Is Using Copyright Law To Try To Fix Them

There’s a lot wrong with AI. But bad things happen when we try to use copyright law to fix it. Which is what we just told the Southern District of New York, where OpenAI and Microsoft are defending themselves in several cases alleging that their training violated the copyrights of the works the AI models...

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Ritesh PakalaOct 22, 2026

The Path Towards 'Fair Use' in Generative A.I.

Braid, a Mamba language model that cites at the token level: how the delta between a shared commons and a personal Thread turns entropy into provenance.

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Ritesh PakalaOct 22, 2026

A 'Fair Use' Distributed Language Model

Personal language models that contribute to a larger one from our own machines — cited at the token level, no data-center required. A four-part series, starting with Braid.

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TechdirtOct 21, 2026

Expert For News Orgs Suing OpenAI Warned ‘Always Verify’ AI, Then Didn’t Verify His AI-Made Charts In His Expert Report

A few weeks ago we wrote about how the lawyers for OpenAI and Microsoft in the massive multi-district litigation (MDL) against the companies over how they trained their AI had called for the exclusion of an expert witness report after it was revealed that lawyers for the plaintiffs had apparently surreptitiously paid for the report,...

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TechdirtOct 5, 2026

Warner/Chappell Sinks Lindsay Ellis’ Two-Hour Cruise Video Over A Few Seconds Of Karaoke

Update: About four hours after this article went up, Warner/Chappell backed down and released their ridiculous claim on the video, so it's now back online. Techdirt has been around for almost 30 years now, and the one internet law issue that never seems to change is the bullshit use of copyright to take down speech....

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TechdirtSep 25, 2026

OpenAI Accuses Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Of Paying For, Hiding, And Then Laundering Sketchy Key Evidence In AI Copyright Case

A ton of attention was paid recently to some offhand statements from OpenAI and Microsoft employees that surfaced in filings in the NY Times' ongoing case against OpenAI, which has been consolidated into a much larger class action lawsuit. As I argued earlier, that struck me as something of a nothingburger of a story, because...

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TechdirtSep 23, 2026

You may have seen the headlines about a Microsoft employee calling AI scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history." It made the rounds on social media, with plenty of people insisting it was a slam dunk admission of criminality. I think I saw this gif applied to it multiple times: It certainly doesn't...

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TechdirtSep 8, 2026

The DOJ’s AI Fair Use Brief Is Correct, But From A DOJ That Has No Credibility

I am never asking the monkey's paw for a federal government that defends fair use again. For decades on Techdirt, I've talked about the absolute necessity of strong fair use, and have been disappointed over and over again at how little the federal government has fought for fair use. For decades, the rare times when...

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Ritesh PakalaSep 5, 2026

Fair Use

Two words define when and how someone can use another's data. The phrase is invoked as a defense for training on the open web, but the balance inside it, the one that made the internet work in the first place, is the part that tends to get skipped.

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eve.gd: Martin Paul EveMay 13, 2015