Anthropic’s AI Lawsuit Settlement May Not Go Through, But It Exposes A Truth About Copyright

The latest generation of AI systems, based on large language models (LLMs), is perceived as the biggest threat in decades to the established copyright order. The scale of that threat can be gauged …

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Judge rules Trump administration illegally fired thousands of probationary workers

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Trump administration’s central human resources office acted illegally when it directed the mass…
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The Threat Of Extreme Statutory Damages For Copyright Almost Certainly Made Anthropic Settle With Authors

In what may be the least surprising news in the world of copyright and the internet, Anthropic just agreed to settle the copyright lawsuit that everyone’s been watching, but not for the reaso…

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Judge Alsup: Training AI On Copyrighted Works? Fair Use. Building Pirate Libraries? Not So Much

While dozens of AI copyright lawsuits wind their way through courts nationwide, Judge William Alsup’s ruling this week in Bartz v. Anthropic stands out — not just because it’s from one …

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Two Judges, Same District, Opposite Conclusions: The Messy Reality Of AI Training Copyright Cases

Within days of each other, two federal judges in the same district reached completely opposite conclusions about AI training on copyrighted works. Judge William Alsup said it’s likely fair us…

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Judge Orders Trump To Reinstate Thousands of Fired Employees At 6 Agencies

Trump’s terminations of probationary workers at the VA, the Interior Department and other agencies were “unlawful,” ruled U.S. District Judge William Alsup.

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Like, Judge #WilliamAlsup famously learned #Java to better rule on #GoogleVOracle. And that was probably pretty hard to do.

But that's just one case! I don't know if that would help him going forward on, say, a case about end-to-end encryption backdoors. You'd have to spend the same amount of effort learning secrets management or networked systems.

So what is the marginal benefit of learning just a little code? I'm not sure.

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DoorDash drivers use their forced arbitration clause to force DoorDash into arbitration

...No doubt, DoorDash never expected that so many would actually seek arbitration. Instead, in irony upon irony, DoorDash now wishes to resort to a class-wide lawsuit, the very device it denied to the workers, to avoid its duty to arbitrate. This hypocrisy will not be blessed, at least by this order....

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/12/21135474/doordash-workers-forced-arbitration-william-alsup

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DoorDash drivers use their forced arbitration clause to force DoorDash into arbitration

It’s a rich bit of irony.