{"id":496,"date":"2024-04-30T23:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/artists-sue-google-alleging-it-used-copyrighted-work-in-ai-training-database\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T23:00:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T23:00:01","slug":"artists-sue-google-alleging-it-used-copyrighted-work-in-ai-training-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/artists-sue-google-alleging-it-used-copyrighted-work-in-ai-training-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists Sue Google, Alleging It Used Copyrighted Work in AI Training Database"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The wave of lawsuits pending against generative AI developers has reached another crest with new legal actions brought against Google, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/04\/30\/chicago-tribune-sues-openai-microsoft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft and Open AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet, the parent company of Google, and Google were named in a copyright class action on April 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saverilawfirm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Saveri Law Firm<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/buttericklaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Butterick Law<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.locklaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lockridge Grindal Nauen<\/a> filed the complaint on behalf of cartoonists Sarah Andersen, Hope Larson and Jessica Fink and photographer Jingna Zhang, who contend that Google used their registered copyrights to train Imagen, an AI photo editing assistant, without authorization.<\/p>\n<p>  Joeseph Saveri, with the Joseph Saveri Law Firm. (Photo: Jason Doiy\/ALM)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wave of lawsuits pending against generative AI developers has reached another crest with new legal actions brought against Google, Microsoft and Open AI. Alphabet, the parent company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[586,584,587,589,585,440,588,189],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-alleging","tag-artists","tag-copyrighted","tag-database","tag-google","tag-sue","tag-training","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}