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Sept. 7, 2023

 

What's going on today?

  • Trump may seek to move Georgia election case to federal court.
  • Biden rejects conditions of plea deal for Sept. 11 defendants.

  • Ex-FTX executive Salame set to plead guilty ahead of Bankman-Fried trial.

  • MoFo alters diversity fellowship criteria after lawsuit.

 

Microsoft to defend customers on AI copyright challenges

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REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Microsoft will pay damages on behalf of customers using its AI products if they are sued for copyright infringement for the output generated by such systems, the company said on Thursday. Microsoft and other tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Stability AI have been hit with recent lawsuits over the "scraping" of copyrighted materials and personal data from across the internet to train their generative AI systems.

 

In addition to the copyright cases, the companies are facing privacy lawsuits. Yesterday Microsoft and OpenAI were hit with what is at least the second class action for allegedly breaking several privacy laws in developing OpenAI's popular chatbot ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence systems. That lawsuit, brought by Morgan & Morgan, is largely identical to a complaint filed by the public-interest focused Clarkson Law Firm against OpenAI and Microsoft in June, with dozens of pages repeated verbatim from the earlier case.

 

More top news:

  • Biden rejects conditions of plea deal for Sept. 11 defendants

  • Donald Trump may seek to move Georgia election case to federal court

  • Ex-FTX executive Salame set to plead guilty ahead of Bankman-Fried trial

  • MoFo alters diversity fellowship criteria after lawsuit

  • Philips settles one category of U.S. claims over respirator recall

  • Russian businessman gets 9 years in U.S. prison for hack-and-trade scheme

  • U.S. court orders Mirror Trading International to pay $1.7 bln in restitution for crypto fraud

  • Goldman Sachs lawyer says suit by Russia's Otkritie Bank should be heard in London

  • GM employee's racial bias lawsuit is revived over NY plant where nooses were displayed
 

Biden continues push to diversify judiciary with four new nominees

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 REUTERS/Bonnie Cash

President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced four new nominees to serve as federal judges across four states, including a Black federal prosecutor nominated to be a judge in New Jersey and a Muslim American for a seat on Oregon's federal bench, adding to the record number of women and people of color Biden has nominated. Read more about the nominees.

 

Biden has announced 188 nominees to the federal bench since taking office in January 2021. The Senate has confirmed 140 of them. Of those nominees, 62% are people of color and 62% are women.

 

Starbucks ruling is a warning: Companies can be liable for violence at stores in dodgy areas

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As U.S. retailers contemplate whether to keep their doors open in hard-hit city neighborhoods, a ruling last week by a New York federal judge gives them another reason for concern. Alison Frankel explains why a Manhattan judge’s decision to deny summary judgment to Starbucks in a case brought by a customer who was assaulted by a fellow patron at a Starbucks in Union Square in 2019 could be a real threat for other companies that fail to respond to low-level violence in their stores.

 

Check out other recent pieces from all our columnists: Alison Frankel, Jenna Greene and Hassan Kanu

 

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