Late last week, a German musicians’ organization scored a pretty crushing legal victory against OpenAI. The court says the training of the GPT 4 and 4o models included copyright infringement, and that some outputs of the models are themselves infringement. A pretty comprehensive win for the “it’s just a plagiarism machine” crowd.

Seasoned OpenAI haters will agree, I think, with at least some of the recent legal analysis of the ruling by intellectual property law scholar Andres Guadamuz of the University of Sussex. Guadamuz points out that the decision and its implications are a bit messy, but may truly benefit copyright holders in the long term.

That likely means copyright big fish—pop stars, Hollywood actors, and bestselling authors—should now be getting a sense of how this techno

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