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The Wikimedia Foundation is urging courts in landmark AI copyright cases to protect LLM training on copyrighted work while still barring chatbots from regurgitating it to users. It argues an overly black-and-white ruling could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI tools or endanger the open web.

Policy & Regulation • The Verge AI

Two German courts have held Google liable for content generated by its AI overviews. After a landmark ruling in Munich, the Aachen Regional Court applied the same reasoning in a new case where Google's AI falsely attributed criminal activity to an individual.

Policy • The Decoder

Meta is attempting to shift blame to staff who downloaded torrents for AI training, arguing that no executives 'decided' to pirate books. The federal court has ordered Meta to name the executives who approved the torrenting.

Policy • Ars Technica AI