I've seen quite a lot of misunderstanding of the ongoing litigation in English courts regarding the use of Peter Cushing's image in "Rogue One". 🧵 The case was brought by Tyburn Film Production in February 2020 against the Cushing Estate, his agents at the time of death (Associated International Management LLP), Lunak Heavy Industries (the producers), and Lucasfilm. Case number IP-2020-000027.

A bit late to this one, but there's been a development in the Github Copilot case. This is the most advanced of the US cases as it was the first filed. There's been an order granting to dismiss some claims and denying some claims. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
The main takeaway is that the DMCA claims regarding removal of rights management information has been finally dismissed with prejudice. This has been common in all other cases, but this should finally kill that line of inquiry.

Big development in the New York Times v Microsoft and OpenAI case (via @ChatGPT8world). Defendants have asked the judge for claimants to disclose how they produced Exhibit J, the famous 100 outputs which allegedly reproduced articles from the NYT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
That exhibit was a huge deal as it was the first time a case had produced potentially infringing outputs, most previous cases rely on infringement at the input stage. This made the case the strongest one yet, perhaps with the exception of Getty v StabilityAI.

Coming out of Twitter retirement to post this development in the artist case against StabilityAI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt. The judge has dismissed most of the claims. drive.google.com/file/d/19oLqGe…
The claims from two artists that failed to register their works before filing have been dismissed with prejudice. The remaining case seems weak, the artist hasn't provided infringing outputs, so all is left is the potential infringement in the inputs.

Finally managed to read the latest case against OpenAI. I've been expecting this one, everything else has been just a prologue, this is likely to be the one that sets precedent one way or another. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… While I expect some of the other lawsuits to be settled out of court, or maybe even be dismissed, Authors Guild brings the big guns, this was always going to be settled by the intervention of the large copyright holders with good lawyers.

I've been a bit surprised that the Thaler decision is getting some attention, this is a completely expected and unsurprising result that doesn't tell us much about the wider copyright AI debates. Here's the decision. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… This requires some background. Dr Stephen Thaler has been pushing the concept of AI patents for a few years now. He built a software called DABUS which made three inventions, and proceeded to apply for patent in various countries. law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/the…

The case for intellectual creation in the making of an AI image using MidJourney. Part of the work is in the prompt, it takes time to know what to ask. Here's the prompt "futuristic city under a dome digital art deviantart high detail high definition octane render" I then select one I like, and ask for an upscale. I go for the first image.