Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot
About 91% of the more than 482,000 books covered by the ruling have been claimed by authors or publishers who are now due payment.
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Tech, ag leader Mitch Frazier named president of IBJ Media
Owner Nate Feltman will remain CEO of the company and publisher of Indianapolis Business Journal, The Indiana Lawyer and Inside INdiana Business but will relinquish day-to-day business operations to Frazier, outgoing CEO of AgriNovus Indiana.
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Publishers sue Meta, claiming it violated copyrights in training AI with their books
The case is the latest brought by publishers, authors, artists, photographers and news outlets aimed at forcing tech companies to compensate them for using their works to train their AI models.
Eight major newspapers join legal backlash against OpenAI, Microsoft
The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft used copyrighted newspaper articles to train their algorithms without compensating content owners.
US begins court battle against publishing giants’ merger
The government and publishing titan Penguin Random House exchanged opening salvos in a federal antitrust trial Monday as the U.S. seeks to block the biggest U.S. book publisher from absorbing rival Simon & Schuster. The case comes as a key test of the Biden administration’s antitrust policy.
Judge frees ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen from prison
A judge ordered the release from prison of President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer on Thursday, saying he believes the government retaliated against him for planning to release a book about Trump before November’s election.
Bolton critique of Trump could define tell-all book court battles
The White House fight with former national security adviser John Bolton is the latest chapter in a lengthy history of Washington book battles, yet it will likely define future cases between the U.S. government and former employees determined to write tell-alls.
Postal service warns newspaper about pot ads
While Oregon voters legalized medical marijuana in 1998 and recreational marijuana for adult use in 2014, the plant is still illegal at the federal level. Any newspaper with pot ads would violate a federal law preventing advertising for illicit goods, the postal service said.