16 Jul 2025. During a Senate Judiciary Hearing on Wednesday, Author David Baldacci, whose books were pirated and then used by technology companies to train their artificial intelligence models, spoke about the problem of piracy.
16 Jul 2025. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) claimed the Meta CEO approved using stolen material to train AI models.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) asked attorney Maxwell Pritt about a lawsuit he argued against Meta.
Learn more:
- TIME CHANGE: Too Big to Prosecute?: Examining the AI Industry’s Mass Ingestion of Copyrighted Works for AI Training
- Witnesses
- Authors Guild Member David Baldacci Testifies Before Senate Crime Subcommittee on AI Theft
- Maxwell Pritt Partner Boies Schiller Flexner LLP San Francisco, CA
- Michael Smith Professor of Information Technology and Marketing Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
- Bhamati Viswanathan Professor of Law New England Law School Boston, MA
- Edward Lee Professor of Law Santa Clara University School of Law Santa Clara, CA
- Master list Copyright lawsuits v. Al companies in U.S.
- USPTO. Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
