Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use
It's almost like they need... A librarian. — https://www.404media.co/... Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social : Like Amazon, Google Books has also been infected with lots of AI-generated g...
Legal experts offer mixed opinions about how earlier copyright and fair use cases could affect The New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft
Nice Try Kate Downing / Law Offices of Kate Downing : The New York Times Launches a Very Strong Case Against Microsoft and OpenAI Blake Brittain / Reuters : Microsoft, OpenAI hit with new lawsuit by a...
Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office's guidance on AI-generated work, and more
A conversation with Katherine Forrest Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere, large language models ingested truly staggering amounts of data to train their models. Mastodon: @jon@henshaw.social ...
A look at how 15-year-old Google Book Search has shrunk in ambition and scope, after prolonged legal battles
Google Books was the company's first moonshot. But 15 years later, the project is stuck in low-Earth orbit. — Books can do anything. As Franz Kafka once said, “A book must be the axe for the froze...
Google Books launches “Discover”, a personalized suggestions feature, to better challenge Amazon's Kindle app
Google today is launching a new feature for Google Books which aims to offer a better challenge to Amazon's Kindle app when it comes to helping you find new things to read.
Supreme Court declines appeal by the Authors Guild to challenge Google Books, leaving in place the 2015 ruling in favor of Google, and ending the copyright suit
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Supreme Court declines to hear appeal by the Authors Guild to challenge Google Books
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Google book-scanning project — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by a group of authors who contend that Google's massive effort …
Google settles with photographers over book scanning lawsuit
Google has announced a settlement with a coalition of photographers over use of their work in its Google Books scanning project. — The photographers first filed suit against Google in 2010.
Appeals court calls for “fair use” ruling in Google Books case
In a major new ruling in the Google Books case, the Second Circuit decertified a class action and told Judge Denny Chin to rule on whether Google's book scanning is fair use. — In a victory for Goog...
AAP Publishers Get More Control Over Google
Google has finally made some headway on the litigation over copyright infringement for the Google Library Project; and the deal puts in place another key piece of the puzzle for Google Books.