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Landmark AI Copyright Win – Fair Use
Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that may reverberate across the dozens of other AI copyright lawsuits winding through the legal system in the United States. A court has determined that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI tools on copyrighted works, arguing that the behavior is shielded by the “fair use” doctrine, which allows for unauthorized use of copyrighted materials under certain conditions.
Kate Knibbs at Wired reports on a U.S. court judgement in favor of artificial intelligence.
Anthropic is the first artificial intelligence company to win this kind of battle, but the victory comes with a large asterisk attached. While Alsup found that Anthropic’s training was fair use, he ruled that the authors could take Anthropic to trial over pirating their works.
While Anthropic eventually shifted to training on purchased copies of the books, it had nevertheless first collected and maintained an enormous library of pirated materials. “Anthropic downloaded over seven million pirated copies of books, paid nothing, and kept these pirated copies in its library even after deciding it would not use them to train its AI (at all or ever again). Authors argue Anthropic should have paid for these pirated library copies. This order agrees,” [Judge William] Alsup writes.
Life Science Toons & Teasers
Enjoy our original life science cartoons, conceived by Phil Ness, owner and publisher of LifeScienceHistory.com (LSH), with illustration by Mark Reeve, an award-winning cartoonist, previously with The Mail On Sunday, who has done work for The Economist, GQ, and DC Comics.
Phil Ness‘ LifeScienceHistory educates with lessons illustrated by Mark Reeve.
Check out our newest cartoon: “U.S. Healthcare Research in Peril” piece 4 of 4 is now available illustrating the demise of health research in the U.S. as we have known it for the last 75 years.
Patrick Chappatte: ‘The path for satire has been getting narrower’
Geneva-based cartoonist Patrick Chappatte, whose cartoons are published among others in The Boston Globe and Le Temps speaks as clearly as his cartoons are direct. As authoritarian regimes crack down on the press and a “caricature sits in the White House”, he aims to show “things how they really are”.
Swissinfo journalist Giannis Mavris airs 22 minutes with international cartoonist Patrick Chappatte.
A long-term advocate of freedom of expressionExternal link, he is concerned about the increasing global attacks on satirists and cartoonists. “Humour is a barometer for democracy,” Chappatte says. “Cartoons can act as an antidote to propaganda and disinformation”.
As president of the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation, Patrick Chappatte advocates for fellow cartoonists. “We used to fight for cartoonists in remote countries. We’re now fighting for our freedoms in our democracies.”
Cartooning Would-Be Kings
It took a few weeks but the roundtable conversation with cartoonists Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher (The Economist, The Baltimore Sun), Signe Wilkinson (Philadelphia Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer), Barry Blitt (The New Yorker, The New York Times), and Joel Pett (Tribune Content Agency), and moderated by Roslyn Mazer (Syracuse U. Alumna and Free Expression Champion) has finally made it to public video.
CARTOONING WOULD-BE KINGS: a celebration of World Press Freedom Day presented by CARTOONISTS RIGHTS and our partners FREEDOM CARTOONISTS and HERB BLOCK FOUNDATION at the INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY, JOURNALISM & CITIZENSHIP (IDJC) Syracuse University – Washington, DC – May 5th 2025
With a special appearance by Matt Wuerker.
Dr. Yahtzee
or, How Can We Stop Worrying When Madmen Have The Bomb?
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