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Apple
Apple loses bid to dismiss YouTube AI scraping suit
Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco let the DMCA anti-circumvention claim proceed, rejecting Apple's argument that publicly available YouTube videos have no access controls.
Thomson Reuters
Third Circuit rules ROSS's AI training was not fair use
The court held 2,243 Westlaw headnotes are copyrightable and found ROSS's use of them to train its legal AI minimally transformative at best.
ByteDance
ByteDance must face YouTubers' DMCA suit over AI training scrape
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley denied ByteDance's motion to dismiss on October 2, holding the creators plausibly alleged a lost-advertising injury tied to circumvention.
Thomson Reuters
Appeals court: training an AI on Westlaw notes is not fair use
The Third Circuit upheld Thomson Reuters' win over Ross Intelligence in the first US appellate ruling on AI training, and the court's reasoning is sealed.
DMCA
Appeals court rejects copyright-notice claims over GitHub Copilot
The Ninth Circuit held that Copilot and OpenAI's Codex generating new code without copyright notices is not "removing" them, leaving infringement claims as the harder road for AI plaintiffs.