Thomson Reuters wins AI training copyright case — what this does and doesn’t mean
Thomson Reuters has won most of its copyright case against defunct legal startup Ross Intelligence, who trained an AI model on headnotes from Westlaw. [Wired, archive; opinion, PDF, case docket] Th…
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This is a civil case, right? Are there any criminal cases ongoing (as far as you know)?
I was thinking the other day about when some twenty years ago EU and EU countries created pretty drastic criminal laws for copyright violations. And also about how they included both jail time and punitive damages, so that in EU countries that doesn't otherwise use punitive damages, only copyright crimes can be punished such.
These laws were of course ghost written by lobbyists from large corporations, often from the US. But you can't say that when pushing it through, so they were officially created to protect authors, artists, musicians and composers.
So it would be funny - and potentially very profitable - if for example some (or a lot) of authors reported for example Meta for their crime of creating local copies of books from LibGen before using it as training materials.
Now, I think the law is there to protect big corporations and if push comes to show relevant ministers and prosecutors might get invited to a trip to the US to understand how to interpret the law. But funny, and potentially very profitable.
