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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A group of authors sue Microsoft in a NY federal court, claiming the company used nearly 200,000 pirated books without permission to train its Megatron AI model — Microsoft (MSFT.O) has been hit with a lawsuit by a group of authors who claim the company used their books without permission …
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Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Getty Images drops its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI in UK court but continues to pursue other claims and a separate US lawsuit — Getty Images dropped its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI on Wednesday at London's High Court …
Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law:
A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train AI is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments
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Olivia Sophie Rafferty / ai fray:
A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library for training LLMs was not
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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Testifying before Congress, Kari Lake said reform at USAGM “was not possible” but the CEOs of RFE/RL, RFA and MBN said she had not met with them even once — The senior adviser to the the U.S. Agency for Global Media said that she's rooting out waste and abuse.
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: WaPo will test a “From the Source” feature, inviting sources named in articles to annotate the stories after publication, starting with climate stories — The program, called From the Source, will start with articles from the publication's climate team.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: a mediator has proposed that Paramount settle Trump's lawsuit for $20M, which would include $17M to Trump's presidential foundation or museum — Potential settlement package would include a donation, legal costs and public service announcements — A mediator has proposed …
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Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A profile of NFL reporter Jordan Schultz, whom some accuse of trading on family wealth as the son of Starbucks' Howard Schultz to get access to players — His dad is billionaire Howard Schultz. His passion is NFL news. Why are other reporters so mad? — NEW YORK — One day in March …
Pew Research Center:
Among US adults who have ever encountered paywalled articles, only 1% said they paid for access, 53% looked elsewhere, and 32% gave up on accessing the info — Newspaper revenue has been in decline for decades, and most Americans now prefer to get news from digital devices.
Alexander Lee / Digiday:
Some podcasters say Spotify's Partner Program, through which they get a cut of Spotify's ad and premium subscription revenue, pays out more than YouTube — Spotify's video podcast partner program is gaining traction with independent podcast creators drawn to its direct payouts …
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
Report finds extensive overlap between colleges and public media outlets: 59% of public media orgs provide regular opportunities for college students — How much overlap and collaboration is there between public media and higher education? — That's the question a new report from the Center …
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Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
How the Center for Investigative Reporting is handling the lawsuit against OpenAI as one of the few nonprofits with the resources to take on a yearslong suit — One year into its copyright litigation, the Center for Investigative Reporting is still one of the only nonprofits to take the AI giant to court.
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Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:
DirecTV experiments with discontinuing satellite TV subscriptions for new customers in several US regions and directing subscribers toward its streaming option — DIRECTV, a leading provider of television entertainment, has announced a significant shift in its service offerings …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Creative Commons debuts CC Signals, a framework that will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused for training AI models — Nonprofit Creative Commons, which spearheaded the licensing movement that allows creators to share their works while retaining copyright, is now preparing for the AI era.
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