AI companies have been spending a lot of time in court arguing copyright cases over the past year and the latest plaintiff is Nielsen-owned metadata company Gracenote. axios Gracenote is reportedly suing OpenAI for unauthorized and unpaid use of both its metadata and the framework for linking that information.
Gracenote specializes in entertainment metadata, creating descriptions and identifiers for content that companies like TV providers use to help their customers discover content. Most lawsuits against AI businesses focus on the material used to train AI, but the Gracenote case brings an additional layer with alleged violations of structure or sequence to the dataset in addition to the actual data.
The complaint states, “Defendants could have paid Gracenote to license their valuable Gracenote data. Or they could have simply sought to train and ground their models on information in the public domain. They did not. Instead, Defendants improperly copied and used Gracenote data to create their own commercially valuable AI products, all without paying a dime.” The company claims that its previous attempts to work with OpenAI for a licensing agreement were rejected or ignored. Gracenote has recently struck deals with other companies, including Samsung and Google, to support AI ventures.
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