Ottawa weighs on AI, OpenII fights the jurisdiction of Ontario court as a copyright
Canadian artificial intelligence ministers are keeping a close watch on court cases in Canada and the US, determining the next stages for Ottawa’s regulatory approach to AI.
Some AI companies have claimed an early victory to the border south of the border, and Openai is now fighting the jurisdiction of the court to hear the case by news publishes.
Ivan Solomon’s office said in a statement that it plans to focus on Copyright “within the comprehensive AI regulatory approach of Canada, protecting cultural sovereignty and focusing on focusing on (creators) factor in this conversation.”
But there is no current plan for a standalone copyright bill, as Solomon’s office is “closely monitoring the ongoing court affairs and market development” to help pursue.
It is not clear how much time it will take to determine in those court cases whether artificial intelligence companies can use copyright content to train their AI products.
CBC/Radio-Canada, Postmaidia, Metroland, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and Canadian Press have initiated a joint lawsuit against the Chatgpt producer Openai, to use news materials to train their flat generative artificial intelligence systems. News organizations say that Openai brings the copyright by ‘scraping content’ from its websites.
The only Canadian case was launched by a coalition of news publishers at the end of last year to answer the question and the Ontario Superior Court has been set to hear a judicial challenge in September.
The alliance-which includes Canadian Press, Torrestar, The Globe and Mel, Postmaidia and CBC/Radio-Canada-is sueing Openai for using news materials to train its generative artificial intelligence systems.
News publishers argue that Openai is violating copyright by scrapping large amounts of materials from Canadian media, and then making profits using that material without permission or compensation.
He said in the court filing that OpenEE “(his) is engaged in the ongoing, intentional and unauthorized misuse of valuable news media works.”
“Instead of looking for legally to get information, Openai has chosen the valuable intellectual property of news media companies to misbehave and convert it to its own uses, including commercial uses, without consent or consideration.”
Openi challenging jurisdiction
Openai has denied the allegations, and earlier that its models are trained on publicly available data, and “proper use and related international copyright principles.”
The company, headquartered in San Francisco, is challenging the jurisdiction of Ontario court to listen to the case.
It argued in a court that it is not located in Ontario and does not trade in the province.
The New York Times is prosecuting Openi and Microsoft, accusing them of using millions of newspaper articles without permission to help train artificial intelligence technologies.
Openai also argued that the Copyright Act does not apply outside Canada.
Openai is asking the court to seal some documents in the case. According to a program mentioned in the court documents, the court has been scheduled to hear the sealing proposal on 30 July.
This asked the court to seal the documents with “commercially sensitive” information, including its corporate organization and structure, its web crawling and processes and systems and include “model training and estimates processes, system, resource allocation and/or cost structures.”
“Artificial Intelligence Industry is highly competitive and develops rapidly,” an affidavit presented by the company says. “There are many contestants in this industry and demand a leg in the industry from large, established technology companies such as Google and Amazon, from small startups to the industry.
“As a recognized leaders in the Artificial Intelligence Industry, contestants and potential contestants for defendants will benefit from access to the confidential information of the defendants.”
A lawyer for news publishers provided information about the court deadline, but did not comment on the case.
Many cases dealing with the AI system and copyright are going on in the United States, some dating are returning to 2023. In late June, AI companies won two cases.
In a case launched by a group of authors, including comedian Sara Silverman, a judge used the published work of AI systems, was appropriately used and the authors did not demonstrate that the use would result in the result of weakening of the market.
But the judge also said that his ruling affects only those specific writers – whose lawyers did not give the correct arguments – and this does not mean that the use of copyright content to the meta was legal to train its system. Judge Vince Chhabriya said in his summary decision that “in a grand plan of things, the results of this decision are limited.”
In a separate American case, a judge decided to appropriately use the use of books published by AI Company’s anthropic properly. But Judge William Alsup also ruled on anthropic “None was entitled to use pirated copies.”
Jane Ginsburg, a professor at the Law School at Columbia University, who studies intellectual property and technology, stated that it would be very easy for AI companies to see cases as a complete victory.
“I think both questions are concerned that the question of the pirate nature and market weakening of sources is going to be big issues in other matters.”
