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AI Training On Trial: The Next Legal Frontier In Copyright Law

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By Barry Fong, Sam Ip, Ryan Holland
| Mondaq
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP are most popular: with Senior Company Executives, HR and Finance and Tax Executives with readers working within the Business & Consumer Services and Healthcare industries Fundamental legal questions about the use of copyrighted materials for training AI models are being litigated in Canada and the U.S. Pending cases and government consultations will allow courts and Parliament to clarify how Canada's copyright law applies to AI training and modernize the Copyright...
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Pre-trial Trademark Injunctions: Hard To Get But Worth The Squeeze?

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By Barry Fong, Mat Brechtel, Daniel Hnatchuk, Angela M. Kaiser
| Mondaq
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP are most popular: with Senior Company Executives, HR and Finance and Tax Executives with readers working within the Business & Consumer Services, Healthcare and Transport industries Key takeaways Trademark owners often seek pre-trial injunctions to halt infringement during litigation, which are highly valuable but challenging to obtain. The evidentiary bar, which is already high, may be raised further if the plaintiff's trademark has not been registered.
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German And U.K. Courts Diverge On Whether AI Models Infringe Copyright

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By Mat Brechtel, Matthew Diskin, Michael J. Fekete, Barry Fong
| Mondaq
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP are most popular: with Senior Company Executives, HR and Finance and Tax Executives with readers working within the Business & Consumer Services, Healthcare and Transport industries Key takeaways An international consensus on whether AI models infringe copyright is likely years away. The Munich court ruled in GEMA v. OpenAI that OpenAI memorized song lyrics, creating copyright issues. In contrast, the U.K. High Court's Getty Images v.
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