Adam Taylor

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Aruni Soni |Adam Taylor |James Arkin

A new startup industry says it can feed generative AI’s insatiable need for training data while still offering artists and creators control and compensation for the use of their works. The startup rights collectives are emerging as lawsuits from writers, artists, and news outlets accuse Big Tech players such as OpenAI Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google of violating their copyrights by training large language models on their works without permission.

1 month ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Kyle Jahner |Adam Taylor

A company that owns one-ninth of the composition to Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” asked the US Supreme Court to revive claims Ed Sheeran’s hit 2014 song “Thinking Out Loud” infringes the 1973 soul classic. Sheeran wrongly won because the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit abdicated its responsibility to decide novel legal questions by deferring to the US Copyright Office, Structured Asset Sales LLC said in its petition, which hasn’t yet been docketed by the high court.

1 month ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Kyle Jahner |Adam Taylor

A company that owns one-ninth of the composition to Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” asked the US Supreme Court to revive claims Ed Sheeran’s hit 2014 song “Thinking Out Loud” infringes the 1973 soul classic. Sheeran wrongly won because the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit abdicated its responsibility to decide novel legal questions by deferring to the US Copyright Office, Structured Asset Sales LLC said in its petition, which hasn’t yet been docketed by the high court.