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Authors Alliance files amicus brief in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation
On October 29, Authors Alliance asked the court for leave to file an amicus brief in In re OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation, the consolidated copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft pending in federal court in New York. Our brief supports the defendants’ motions for summary judgment, but focuses onone issue only: whether “market dilution” is a kind of harm that copyright law recognizes. We argue that it is not, and that treating it as one would end up hurting many of the authors the theory claims to protect.
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