Publishers on Sue Ai Startup Cohere on alleged copyright violation
A consortium of fourteen publishers Including Condé Nast, the Atlantic and Forbes have filed a complaint against cohere alleging that the generative startup of AI is committed to a violation of the copyright “massive and systematic”.
In the complaint, the publisher’s complainants accuse the cohere of using at least 4,000 works protected by copyright to train his AI models and display large parts of articles – and even whole articles – For users, harming the reference traffic of publishers. The trial also alleges that Cohere has violated the marks of the publishers by “incredible” content which was not really published by the points of sale.
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The trial against Cohere is the last chain courtroom battles targeting AI societies for alleged intellectual property violations. Some companies, including OpenAI, have adopted a content license strategy in part to postpone future legal challenges, while arguing that their alleged use of material protected by copyright is fair use.
