Written by: Haim Ravia, Dotan Hammer
The global surge of litigation concerning copyright violations in AI training data continues. In India, several publishers are seeking to join pending litigation against OpenAI due to its use of literary works to train ChatGPT; in California, a new lawsuit alleges that LinkedIn sold personal messages to third parties for AI training purposes; and Anthropic (Claude AI) has settled a lawsuit filed by Universal Publishing Group.
The OpenAI case in India now involves several publishers, including Bloomsbury Publishing, Penguin Random House, and Cambridge University Press. They allege that their copyrighted works were used to train AI models without permission or proper licensing. The publishers are demanding that OpenAI either sign licensing agreements or cease using their works by removing them from its training datasets.
The lawsuit against LinkedIn alleges that the company sold private conversations of its premium users to third parties, for use in training AI models. The complaint argues that LinkedIn added an opt-out option for personal conversation use for AI training to users’ privacy settings last August, but failed to notify users of the new policy, which allowed them to do so. The petition seeks damages of $1,000 to be paid to each premium member.
Anthropic, the developer of the Claude chatbot, recently settled a copyright lawsuit with several music publishers regarding a lawsuit alleging the chatbot regurgitated song lyrics and used lyrics to train the AI without proper licensing. According to the settlement, Anthropic agreed to implement measures to ensure its AI models will not be trained on copyrighted content in the future.
These cases highlight the increasing pressure on AI developers to address the intellectual property implications of their training data and the potential liabilities arising from using copyrighted content without authorization.
Click here to read the class action complaint against LinkedIn.
Click here to read the court’s decision settling the Anthropic case.
