Magistrate overseeing Times v. OpenAI sold her Microsoft stock — and is staying on the case.
Hon. Ona Wang disclosed the holding, divested, and said reassignment would not serve the public. The copyright MDL keeps its judge.
Reuters
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Copyright as the new land war — training data, tax algorithms, takings.
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Hon. Ona Wang disclosed the holding, divested, and said reassignment would not serve the public. The copyright MDL keeps its judge.
Reuters
The iPhone-ChatGPT lockup case against Apple is dismissed. Musk’s companies will keep the fight with OpenAI in Texas.
Reuters
Washington’s first intervention in the news-copyright wars.
The New York Times
A judge found pirated-book libraries were not fair use. The rest of the training war is unsolved.
The New York Times