The topsy-turvy legal landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) has been further shaken up by a cluster of lawsuits against AI pioneers Google, Microsoft, and Open AI. Alphabet, the mother company of Google, found itself embroiled in a copyright class action on April 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Cartoonists Sarah Andersen, Hope Larson and Jessica Fink and photographer Jingna Zhang allege that Google infracted their registered copyrights by using their work to train Imagen, Google’s AI photo editing assistant, without their explicit permission.
The case is being fronted by a formidable trio of law firms, namely Joseph Saveri Law Firm, Butterick Law and Lockridge Grindal Nauen.
This lawsuit is the latest in a swath of similar legal actions aimed at AI companies. It comes as the 22nd of an escalating 23 lawsuits that have been filed for copyright infringement against AI developers.
This AI’s sketchy relationship with copyright law continues to provoke serious questions about the limits and potential overreaches of AI technology.
As these legal dramas continue to unravel, it is clear that the intersection of AI and copyright law remains fertile ground for international debate.
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